We help communities around the world develop the tools they need to heal population-wide trauma.
12/02/2025
One breath can change a life.
For 34 years, we’ve helped communities facing trauma and chronic stress access the power of mind-body medicine — training thousands of local leaders to share these tools with others.
This Giving Tuesday, your gift to our Emergent Fund helps build sustainable healing infrastructure in communities that need it the most. It allows us to respond when the call comes. And to train leaders who continue this work long after we’re gone.
November is National Veterans and Military Families Month. As the month draws to a close, we recognize not only those who served, but the families, caregivers, and communities who stand beside them.
Nearly 800,000 veterans live with PTSD, which is why, for nearly 30 years, we’ve partnered with veteran communities, including through the VA Sunshine Healthcare Network (VISN 8), to expand access to evidence-based mind-body medicine training and practical tools for trauma recovery and long-term resilience. We are honored to support those who have served and protected their country.
We also honor military families and caregivers who navigate the uncertainty of military life, often the first to witness trauma’s toll and the steady hands through separations and relocations. Their strength and resilience shape recovery that ripples outward.
34 years ago, our Founder and CEO James S. Gordon, MD, started CMBM with a breath:
for children without safe homes,
for healthcare workers carrying impossible burdens,
for communities in crisis around the world.
Since then, thousands have trained with us and shared mind-body healing with millions. Today, as climate change, gun violence, and conflict touch more lives, our work is more essential than ever.
Join us as we enter our 35th year. Your gift helps bring healing wherever trauma strikes. https://ow.ly/SK4m50XxTYG
11/21/2025
Today is the last day to register for our December Advanced Training Program (ATP)! Spots are limited—don't miss your chance to join us for this transformative four-day learning experience.
ATP is the second step in the most complete training in mind-body medicine available, anywhere. Join us December 5 & 8-10, 2025 to learn how to lead our signature Mind-Body Skills Groups and apply mind-body medicine techniques across a variety of settings. You’ll get a detailed manual and practical solutions for common challenges that arise in groups.
*This training is only open to those who have completed our Professional Training Program.
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
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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.
