Private Community Resources:

Many communities have teachers/facilitators trained in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) or counselors/psychologists trained in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

• Search the internet for MBSR or MBCT in your city to find out what is available locally.
• Most of the courses available charge a fee for participants.
• Check out MBSR BC for certified MBSR facilitators

Publicly Funded Resources

 Vancouver and Lower Mainland

Children and Youth

1. BC Children’s Hospital

• Several mindfulness-based programs including:
  • MBCT / ACT for adolescents with anxiety
  • MARS-A (Mindful Awareness and Resilience Skills for Adolescents) for adolescents with psychological distress, with or without co-occurring chronic pain/chronic illness
  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
  • Mindful Parenting for children and youth with ADHD
  • Mindfulness in Reproductive Mental Health
  • Adult MBSR/MBCT for physicians and health care providers
  • Mindfulness training within the Provincial Specialized Eating Disorders program
  • Mindfulness for Stress Management within the RICHER (“Social Pediatrics”) Initiative
• These all require health provider referral. Referral criteria and availability vary.

2. BC Crisis Centre: Mindfulness Program for youth in schools.

Adult

1. VGH Cardiac Rehab – Mindful Living program

• $30
• Program Participants only
• 6 weeks
• Diamond Health Care Centre

2. Mindful Living Centre

• MBSR and MBCT courses

Websites

1. Providence Health Care

2. Kelty Mental Health Resource Centre

Vancouver Island

1.  BC Association for Living Mindfully  (BCALM)

• Art of Living Mindfully 8 week courses (MSP by referral)
• Mindfulness in Medicine courses for physicians
• Mindfulness in Schools
• Workplace Wellness
• Resources for all of BC

2. USTAT (Urgent Short Term Assessment and Treatment)

• Art of Living Mindfully Group
• MBCT Group
• DBT Group

3. VIHA Pain Clinic –Royal Jubilee Hospital

• Mind body group/course for patients referred to pain program

4. Sooke Integrated Health Network (IHN)

• Mindfulness Based Approach to prevent Depression Relapse

5. Cowichan Lake Primary Health Care Service

• General Stress Management Group

6. Mindfulness Program at Nanaimo Pain Program

• run by Social Worker

7. Nanaimo Integrated Health Network (IHN)

• Stress Management group

8. Campbell River Integrated Health Network (IHN)

• Mindfulness Meditation group

Sunshine Coast

Voice 2 Vision – Dr. Rahul Gupta

• runs MSP funded MBSR courses for referred patients in Gibsons
• also runs MBSR courses for physicians at Royal Columbian Hospital
• runs a course for local Sunshine Coast teachers

Okanagan

Janice Snyder teaches MBSR to UBC – Okanagan Campus Staff, students and faculty

BCCA of Southern Interior

• MBSR offered by David Greenshields
• for people living with cancer
• 1-250-718-2698 or davidtg@telus.net

Kooteneys

Dr. Devon Christie offers MBSR groups to patients referred to the program and covered through MSP in Nelson and Kaslo.

• Fax 1-250-354-1912

Clear Sky Centre

• Offers online courses and personal and group retreats in Bull River in the beautiful East Kootenays.