Mindfulness Facilitation Certificate Program

A 4-month journey to confidently and skillfully share the practice of mindfulness

Have you been profoundly impacted by mindfulness and feel called to share it with others? This 4-month training is designed to help you do just that—with confidence, clarity, and integrity.

Rooted in the wisdom of Buddhist meditation and adapted for contemporary contexts, the Mindfulness Facilitation Certificate Program (MFCP) uses the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness as our guiding framework, and will equip you with the essential tools to guide mindfulness meditations in a variety of settings—public or private, clinical or non-clinical, corporate or community-based.

Whether you’re envisioning yourself leading meditations in a workplace, offering one-on-one sessions, or simply bringing more mindfulness into your work and life, this program will help you become an effective, heart-centered mindfulness facilitator.

Please note: This is not a meditation teacher training as it focuses solely on the skill of guiding meditations. It is a training in how to hold space through practice, with a deep emphasis on embodiment, presence, and care.The missing skills not included are giving talks and responding to questions.

Learning Objectives

💥 Guide mindfulness meditations of varying lengths and themes with clarity, confidence, and sensitivity

🏹 Design and deliver meditations with a clear arc, including effective openings, pacing, and transitions

📿 Use the Buddha’s Four Foundations of Mindfulness as a core framework for guiding and understanding practice

❤️‍🩹 Apply trauma-sensitive principles to create safer, more inclusive spaces for mindfulness practice

🧘🏻‍♀️ Teach from the foundation of personal practice, embodying authenticity, presence, and care

🙏🏼 Differentiate between secular and Buddhist approaches to mindfulness, and articulate their similarities and distinctions

🌱 Adapt mindfulness instruction for various real-world contexts such as healthcare, education, corporate, and community spaces

✊🏽 Receive, reflect on, and integrate feedback to continually refine your teaching

Who this program is for

  • Teacher and leaders of any kind—school teachers, movement instructors, facilitators, therapists, counselors, community leaders, healthcare professionals, coaches, mentors, or healers

  • Those drawn to developing the skills to guide or support others in mindfulness within your own communities

  • Those eager to discover and cultivate your authentic voice and presence in how you embody and share this practice

  • Those committed to an ongoing journey of learning and deepening—seeing this as one step in a lifelong path of growth, service, and practice

  • Dedicated practitioners seeking a community to deepen your own mindfulness practice and within a supportive, structured container—whether or not you plan to guide others

What teachers are saying

“Dawn Mauricio is a wise and skilled teacher and mentor. Her courses are a real benefit to those who enrol, and her compassionate presence and support to students is a gift.”

— Jack Kornfield, co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center

“If you have the opportunity to train with Dawn Mauricio, take it. She is the kind of teacher who transmits mindfulness not just through her words, but through her steady presence, her warmth, her passion and her deep embodiment of the path. I’ve seen firsthand her gift for translating ancient wisdom into accessible, relevant teachings—always with clarity, humility, and a lightness of heart that makes even the most difficult truths feel workable.”

— Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion

What’s included

  • Online hub that serves as your anchor as you journey through the program

  • Training manual 

  • 75 mindfulness meditation scripts

  • 4x Monthly large group teaching sessions (one weekend per month)

  • 3x Peer-to-peer small group meetings (one 90 minute per month)

  • 3x Monthly group mentoring meetings (one 90 minute per month)

  • 3x Monthly coursework

  • Digital practice calendar with suggested talks and meditations

  • Practicum and evaluation

What students are saying

“Dawn has found a way to combine wit, humor, and her warmth with her skill as both student and teacher of mindfulness. Very quickly, she helped normalize and deepen my practice as a beginner and has even inspired me to become a mindfulness teacher myself. I instantly chose her as my mentor for a 2-year certification program and feel grateful to be able to learn from her. Dawn is a true gem and someone who inspires countless others to be better.”

— Miraj J.

“Dawn is a wonderful human from a new generation of fresh and knowledgeable teachers. I am blessed to have found Dawn on the path as I have benefitted from her imaginative approach of transmitting the teachings. She has supported my practice in compassionate and surprising ways I would have never thought of. My stagnant practice feels shaken up and rebuilt with new energy, joy, fun and solidity.”

— Coral S.

“For years I struggled to see myself in the teachings, but with Dawn, I always feel safe, welcome and seen in her classes. She models what it means to meet our experiences as they are, and with authenticity and kindness. And each time, I walk away with a new perspective that allows me to lean in and deepen my own practice. I have also learned so much from her as a mentor to help further my own craft as a teacher in training.”

— Alia P.

Program Breakdown

    • Explore and discuss the first foundation of mindfulness from the Buddha’s Satipatthana Sutta

    • Discover various meditation postures

    • Learn the basics to meditation guiding

    • Create and guide a meditation to your peer group

    • Learn how to give and receive feedback, and receive and offer feedback

    • Explore and discuss the second foundation of mindfulness from the Buddha’s Satipatthana Sutta

    • Discover the difference between secular mindfulness and Buddhist mindfulness

    • Learn the arc of a meditation

    • Begin to incorporate inviting cues into your meditations

    • Create and guide a meditation to your peer group, and receive and offer feedback

    • Explore and discuss the third foundation of mindfulness from the Buddha’s Satipatthana Sutta

    • Learn about sila or ethics and how it applies to facilitating

    • Discover concepts such as RAIN, RAINDROP, felt sense

    • Begin to incorporate trauma-sensitivity into your meditations

    • Create and guide a meditation to your peer group, and receive and offer feedback

    • Explore and discuss the fourth foundation of mindfulness from the Buddha’s Satipatthana Sutta

    • Learn about Dhamma as a refuge, resource for our current polycrises, and inspiration for personal practice beyond this 4-month program

    • Practicum teaching and evaluations

  • 4x Monthly in-person large group teaching sessions (one weekend per month)

    • Friday September 12 6:00-9:00pm
      Saturday and Sunday September 13-14 12:30-5:30pm

    • Friday October 17 6:00-9:00pm
      Saturday and Sunday October 18-19 12:30-5:30pm

    • Friday November 7 6:00-9:00pm
      Saturday and Sunday November 8-9 12:30-5:30pm

    • Please note the different times
      Friday December 5 4:00-9:00pm
      Saturday December 6 4:00-7:00pm
      Sunday December 7 12:30-5:30pm

    3x Monthly online group mentoring meetings (one 90 minute per month)

    • Tuesday September 30 6:30-8:00pm

    • Tuesday October 28 6:30-8:00pm

    • Tuesday December 2 6:30-8:00pm

    3x Peer-to-peer small group meetings (one 90 minute per month)

    • Scheduled at first large group meeting

  • $2,000 CAD + GST & QST

    Reserve your spot here.

  • Limited scholarships for BIPOC and 2SLGBTQIA+ available, particularly for those who often stress about meeting basic needs, experience financial struggle due to historic inequity, are unemployed, have a low-wage job, and/or have significant current financial struggles, regardless of the reason.

    If you’d like to apply for a scholarship, you can apply here.

Meet your instructor

Hi, I’m Dawn (she/her), and I’m honored to accompany you on your journey.

I've been studying and practicing Vipassana (Insight) mediation since 2005, and over the years have deepened my Buddhist studies via programs like Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Dedicated Practitioners Program and 4-year Buddhadharma Retreat Teacher Training. I’ve also mentored hundreds of practitioners and teachers-in-training worldwide via programs like Power of Awareness and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training Program taught by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach. You can find me on apps such as Happier and Insight Timer and I've also written a book called Mindfulness Meditation for Beginners.

FAQs

  • This course is for you if you are:

    • A teacher of any kind—school teacher, movement instructor, facilitator, healer, therapist, counselor, community leader, healthcare professional, coach, mentor, or spiritual guide

    • Drawn to developing the skills to guide or support others in mindfulness within your own communities

    • Eager to discover and cultivate your authentic voice and presence in how you embody and share this practice

    • Committed to an ongoing journey of learning and deepening—seeing this as one step in a lifelong path of growth, service, and practice

    • A dedicated practitioner seeking to deepen your own mindfulness practice in community and within a supportive, structured container—whether or not you plan to guide others

  • The Fall 2025 edition of this program will be in-person in Montreal. There is currently no online version scheduled.

  • This cohort will be limited in size to 20 people.

  • You’ll be able to guide mindfulness meditations of varying lengths, styles, and topics. You will also be equipped to include inviting and trauma-informed cues.

  • If you have completed other mindfulness meditation specific trainings, yes, you can continue referring to yourself as a mindfulness meditation teacher. If you do not have such trainings (e.g. are a certified yoga or Pilates teacher, life coach, therpaist, etc.), this program does not cover enough skills to enable you to be a mindfulness teacher. You would need to seek out a training that develops the skills and understanding to offer talks and respond to FAQs. Although I no longer in the training, I recommend Tara Brach’s and Jack Kornfield’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program.

  • At the moment, there is no plan to offer a follow up. In the meantime, I recommend Tara Brach’s and Jack Kornfield’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program.

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