with Dawn Mauricio

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with Dawn Mauricio 🌀

Mindfulness Facilitation Certification with Dawn Mauricio

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.

REGISTRATION OPENS APRIL, 2025.

  • Please note, certification requires you to be available for all 4 modules.

    Modules

    Module One: September 12, 13, 14

    Module Two: October 17, 18, 19

    Module Three: November 7, 8, 9

    Module 4: December 5, 6, 7

    Modules 1-3: Friday 6-9pm, Saturday and Sunday 12:30-5:30pm

    Module 4: Friday 4-9pm, Saturday 4-7pm, Sunday 12:30-5:30pm

    3x Monthly online group mentoring meetings

    Tuesday September 30 6:30-8:00pm
    Tuesday October 28 6:30-8:00pm
    Tuesday December 2 6:30-8:00pm

  • $2000 CAD + GST & QST

    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.

  • 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.

    • 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

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

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

❤️‍🩹 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

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

🙏🏼 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

Mindfulness of the body

  • 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

Mindfulness of Feeling Tone

  • 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


Mindfulness of Emotions

  • 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

Mindfulness of Thoughts

  • 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

  • Receive feedback on your facilitation

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.

testimonials

testimonials

“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