We help communities around the world develop the tools they need to heal population-wide trauma.
11/13/2025
Our Advanced Training Program (ATP) is designed for people who are ready to take the next step in mind-body medicine. ATP will teach you to deepen your practice, strengthen your facilitation skills, and expand your impact.
Whether you work in health care, education, public service, or community wellbeing, ATP equips you with the tools to support healing, resilience, and transformation.
* Advanced Training is only available to those who have completed our Professional Training Program.
11/11/2025
Looking for an accessible way to experience mind-body medicine?
Join us for our next Open Practice on Tuesday, November 18, led by CMBM Faculty Christy Gauss and Brent Anderson. This free, one-hour virtual session offers simple, powerful tools for self-care and mutual support.
Together, we’ll explore:
Soft Belly Breathing — with insights into how connecting to the breath helps us connect to others
Dialogue with a Symptom, Problem, or Issue — a guided exercise to help you reset and recharge as we all prepare for the holiday season.
An update on the heroic work our team in Gaza is doing from Palestine Country Director Jamil A. Atti, PhD, MA:
Slide 1: In honor of World Mental Health Day, some of our Gaza team members led a self-care workshop for the committed and compassionate employees at UNRWA Operational Centres in Rafah and Khan Younis, bringing moments of respite, smiles, and even joy.
Slide 2: That same day, other team members organized a day filled with recreational activities for adolescent girls at Sanabel School in Deir Al-Balah, providing opportunities to breathe, play, and decompress.
Slide 3: Our dedicated Gazan team members are participating in a virtual training led by international faculty with deep experience working with children. These ongoing sessions strengthen our facilitators’ capacity to provide evidence-based trauma healing support for children, adolescents, and caregivers facing significant trauma, chronic stress, and anxiety. Through this training, our incredible local facilitators are helping the children of Gaza develop resilience, inner calm, and emotional well-being, even in the most dire of circumstances. We are deeply proud of their commitment and courage in moving mountains to bring hope and healing to their communities.
Slide 4: At Al Awda Health Center in Nuseirat and Deir Al-Balah, urgently needed workshops were held for Gaza’s frontline healthcare workers to focus on their own healing and resilience. In these sessions, participants who bear witness to unimaginable suffering each day explored practical mind-body medicine tools to help them sustain their own well-being, so they can continue to show up with compassion and presence for their communities, even amid extraordinarily challenging circumstances.
Slide 5: In partnership with the NGO Alianza por la Solidaridad, CMBM-Gaza conducted a self-care training for service providers from Al Awda Hospital and the Culture and Free Thought Association, helping participants learn mind-body skills to manage stress, restore energy, and build resilience.
The Center for Mind- Body Medicine- Palestine مركز علاج العقل والجسم
11/05/2025
Completed our Professional Training Program? Here's what's next.
Our Advanced Training Program is coming up December 5 & 8-10, 2025. Over four transformative days, Professional Training Program graduates will deepen their mind-body medicine skills and learn how to share our model with others.
Want to learn more before registering? Join our Open House on Monday, November 10 at 10am ET with Clinical Director Lynda Richtsmeier CYR, PhD. She’ll guide you through what to expect, explore how mind-body medicine can enhance your life and community, and answer your questions live.
*Advanced Training only available to those who have completed our Professional Training Program.
11/04/2025
This , we celebrate our Indigenous faculty, staff, and community members.
We're honored to work alongside tribal nations across the Americas through our and remain deeply committed to bringing hope and healing to Indigenous communities around the world.
Wishing everyone celebrating Halloween a day filled with joy, creativity, and community connection. May you embrace the fun and magic of the season. Happy Halloween!
10/30/2025
Feeling like you're moving through the day on autopilot?
Join us in taking a moment to reset with Soft-Belly Breathing. This simple technique slows down your stress response and helps you reconnect with the present moment. Even just a few minutes can make a difference in how you feel.
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. As the month comes to a close, we want to acknowledge the courage and resilience of survivors.
Experiencing domestic violence can have lasting effects on your mental and physical health. Healing is possible and self-care practices like breathwork, meditation, and mindful movement can help you reconnect with your body and begin to feel safe again. These tools can be powerful allies on your healing journey.
Our Resource Library offers free guided practices to support you wherever you are. https://ow.ly/j6lC50Xk3ug
10/28/2025
Imagine learning directly from leading experts in trauma and addiction recovery as they share evidence-based strategies to support healing and lasting change.
Join our Founder & CEO, James Gordon, MD, on November 3rd as he and over 30 leading experts speak at the Trauma & Addiction Recovery Summit, hosted by Marcia Diane, LPC, LIAC. You'll gain practical tools and science-backed approaches to support your recovery journey.
Reminder: Registration is open for our Online Advanced Training Program in Mind-Body Medicine!
Join us December 5 & 8-10, 2025 to take the next step in your mind-body medicine journey. You'll master our signature Mind-Body Skills Groups and learn how to bring CMBM's techniques into your work with individuals, families, and classrooms.
*This training is only open to those who have successfully completed our PTP. No exceptions!
10/25/2025
Today, we remember the 18 lives tragically lost in the mass shooting in , ME, two years ago. Our hearts are with the survivors, families, and community, and we honor the resilience they continue to show each day.
Over the past two years, we've remained committed to supporting this community. With the help of our Faculty member, Regina Schulman, M.Ed., LADC I, LMT/BCTMB, we continue working alongside local organizations, including training a new cohort in mind-body medicine last March.
Our work here reminds us why we do what we do: to help communities when they need it the most, bringing them tools to heal from trauma and build resilience.
10/23/2025
Ready to take the next step in your mind-body medicine journey?
Registration is now open for our December Online Advanced Training Program (ATP). ATP builds on the skills taught in our Professional Training Program (PTP), including how to use our mind-body medicine techniques with individuals, families, and in classrooms. You'll master our signature Mind-Body Skills Groups, complete with a detailed manual describing each session and discussing solutions to common challenges that arise in groups.
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The Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) was founded in 1991 by James S. Gordon, M.D., a professor of psychiatry and family medicine at Georgetown University Medical School and former chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy, under Presidents Clinton and G.W. Bush.
In the 25 years since then, CMBM has become a worldwide leader in making self-care, group support, and community-building central to all healthcare, the training of health professionals, and the education of children. CMBM has focused on providing innovative solutions to some of the world’s most intractable and complex psychological and physical problems.
CMBM’s international faculty of 160 experts have trained over 5,000 health professionals, educators, and community leaders in our pioneering mind-body medicine model of self-care, self-awareness, and group support; they in turn integrate our model into their communities and use it with the populations they serve, allowing us to benefit millions of people.
Our Ground-Breaking Trauma Relief Programs
The largest, most effective programs for healing population-wide psychological trauma. In Gaza, more than 150,000 children and adults served.
A parallel program in Israel; CMBM is the only organization that works with large-scale psychological trauma in both Gaza and Israel.
A nationwide program of mind-body medicine in post-war Kosovo.
Programs for healing U.S. veterans’ PTSD at 30 military bases and VAs.
Ongoing work with Haiti’s most disadvantaged people: orphaned children, homeless youth, disabled people, and prisoners.
The first ‘wellness hospital’ at Eskenazi, the largest health provider in Indiana.
A program of trauma healing and su***de prevention, combining mind-body medicine and traditional Lakota ceremony on Pine Ridge Reservation, where 20 children have killed themselves in the last year.
Evidence-Based Mind-Body Training & Certification
Our trainings focus on practical techniques for self-care and mutual support. Learn the science and skills of meditation, guided imagery, biofeedback, and self-expression in words, drawings, and movement in classroom sessions and supportive, small group experiences.
