FLOURISH

Flourish is a transformative 12-week Mindfulness Certification Program that will rejuvenate your meditation practice and certify you to begin leading mindfulness practices in a professional setting.

  • Learn 9 meditation techniques to alleviate daily stress and suffering

  • Deepen your mindfulness practice in warm, supportive community

  • Refine and practice guiding others in meditation

  • Reconnect to your joy

FLOURISH

A Mindfulness Certification Program
for Jewish Communal Professionals

January 21 - April 8 2025

Flourish is for you if…

  • You are a high-achieving powerhouse out in the world, but behind the scenes, you are teetering dangerously close to burnout and breakdown

  • You crave more tools to help you find steadiness when it feels like the world is falling apart and relief from the inner critic that says you aren’t enough. 

  • You are longing for community, support and guidance as you pursue a path of healing and growth

  • You are not a brand-new beginner to meditation and you are ready to go the next level

  • You are interested in leading others in meditation, and ready to take a big leap in that direction

By the end of Flourish, you will feel:

  • Rejuvenated and spacious in a way that’s not dependent on your surroundings, circumstances or situation.

  • Connected to a community of like-minded people, cheering on your growth. 

  • Steady and grounded, using mindfulness tools to find your footing when life throws you curveballs and people push your buttons.

  • Relieved as your inner critics gradually become your friends.

  • Confident in leading others in meditation in your community or workplace.

  • Clarity and vitality in your body, relationships and life.

Are you ready to find your way back to yourself?

Over 12 weeks, we’ll move at a pace that allows you to sink deeply into the material and apply it to your life. You will have step-by-step guidance and support from Yael and your team of co-travelers and friends.  Flourish is not about passively receiving information. It is a transformative coaching experience that applies ancient wisdom to your life, as it is happening - paced to allow all the teachings to sink in deeply.

Curriculum

Week 1-4: Drop In

Step out of the stream of overthinking, over analyzing, re-living the past or anxiously concocting an imaginary future and drop into the still waters of the present moment.

Techniques Include:

  • Concentration practice

  • Sense-based meditation

  • Working with difficult emotions

Week 5-7: Move Closer

Get curious about the stories you tell yourself and the narratives that live inside your mind and unravel that which is not serving you.

Techniques Include:

  • Inquiry-based meditation

  • Un-blending techniques

  • Reframing narrative practices 

Week 8-12: Open Up

Claim your wholeness and experience the fullness of life that is waiting for you, right now.

Techniques Include:

  • Radical acceptance

  • Lovingkindness practices

  • Open awareness meditation

  • Pedagogy and practice of guiding others

What You Get

• 9 brief instructional videos (10-20 minutes) to move you through the curriculum

• 9 weekly guided audio meditations created to support your real-life practice as you go through the curriculum

• Weekly journaling prompts and exercises to deepen learning on the week’s topic

• 2 mini virtual retreats: kick-off and closing

• 12 weekly LIVE virtual group coaching calls with Yael Shy and your fellow practitioners to apply the learnings directly to your life. Calls are recorded.

• A supportive Whatsapp group for participants to share wisdom, questions, struggles and cheerleading, even after the program ends.

• A practice partner to support your learning experience and commitment to the program

• A Certificate in Mindfulness Practices from Mindfulness Consulting, LLC to support using the practices in your professional life or as a precursor for a full teacher training program

FAQs

  • We have two upcoming cohorts of Flourish. The first is Flourish for Jewish Communal Professionals running January through April. Registration is now open.

    Next, we will have a general Flourish cohort that will take place on from March to May. To be notified when registration opens, please subscribe to our newsletter below.

  • The practices I teach are rooted in 2,000+ years of wisdom from Buddhism and other faith traditions, filtered through my 20+ years of practice, but you don’t have to belong to any religion to benefit from its teachings. 

  • This program IS for those people who…

    Want to sink more deeply into a meditation practice in order to FLOURISH in their lives

    Want support from an experienced teacher and a like-minded community as they apply evidence-based, ancient wisdom to their lives

    Are excited to dive deeply, engage in the practices, and authentically and bravely show up in this experience.

    Want to eventually go on to lead and/or teach meditation to others

    Want to supplement their other ways of healing with somatic, body-based ways of finding healing and growth.

    This program is NOT for those who…

    Are brand new to meditation (i.e. no familiarity whatsoever)

    Are seeking a teacher training program (although this is a great precursor to one!)

    Are in an acute crisis without additional psychological support (i.e. therapist)

  • First - you will get a certificate in Mindful Practices from Mindfulness Consulting, LLC at the conclusion of the 12-weeks, which might inspire your work to support or subsidize the cost of the program.

    If this is not an option and you still need support, reach out! We offer payment plans and some limited scholarship funds. Send us a note at info@mindfulnessconsulting.net with subject line: “Flourish Scholarship” to learn more.

  • We are so sure you will love the resources, teachings, coaching and community that we are offering a full refund (minus administrative fees) if you decide it is not for you the first week (7 days) of the program.

  • Although there is a curriculum in Flourish, it is much more than an online class. Rather than just passively intaking information, we will be applying it directly to your individual lives so that you can get support in real time, with an experienced teacher and a community of fellow travelers to cheer you on.

    Meditation coaching isn’t just an intellectual experience. It is about applying evidence-based wisdom to the fight you had with your husband, or the difficult conversation you have to have with your boss. It is about transforming how you talk to yourself when you fail, and how you find faith when everything feels difficult. Yael will give you the tools, yes, but she will also support you as you try them out for yourself and answer questions along the way.

  • Previous participants have used the training they received in Flourish and their Certificates in Mindfulness Practice to guide others in their workplaces, communities, to satisfy the requirements for a longer teacher training program and as a CV enhancement.

    Jenna S., a University Success Coach, used her Flourish training to guide her students in meditation to help ease their daily stress.

    Isabel M., used the training and certification from Flourish to help further her mindfulness credentials. Since Flourish, she has taught workshops using mindfulness techniques to guide others, including a recent gathering of 80 Seattle-based creatives.

    Lauren B., After completing Flourish, she was inspired to teach a mindfulness series to the staff of her organization. She also taught mindfulness to the rabbis that she leads in summer programs and in turn they have been inspired to bring the practices into their synagogues as well.

  • 57% of participants in Flourish continued on to participate in meditation teacher training programs. That means that 43% were not interested in that route, and that is completely fine! Flourish can be an opportunity to give yourself the gift of more clarity, ease and joy - a powerful experience in its own right.

  • Click Here to schedule a time for a 1:1 consultation to see if it is right for you. No pushiness - just an exploration of fit. Let’s chat!

About your instructor

Hi! My name is Yael Shy, I’m an award-winning author and CEO of the industry-leading Mindfulness Consulting. I have been featured on Good Morning America, CBS News and in Time Magazine and the Harvard Business Review. In addition to my workshops and individual clients, I consult for major corporations and universities, including Proctor and Gamble, Columbia University, and NYU.  Deeply passionate about the transformative power of mindfulness, I have over 20 years of practice experience in Zen, Jewish, and secular meditation contexts.

Why I do this:

Meditation changed my life when I was 19 years old and my anxiety had grown so out of control I was having 2-3 full-fledged panic attacks per week. Social anxiety kept me from making friends, dating or going to gatherings without the excessive use of alcohol and drugs, and yet I was terribly lonely.  I never thought I could find a way out of my pain. Through mindfulness, meditation and therapy, I did. Although I still get anxious and lonely, these emotions no longer control my life or stop me from connecting with others or taking risks. It is now my life’s purpose to support others to uncover their inherent worth and capacity for deep joy through mindfulness.