Product Overview & Details for Harvard The Herbert Benson, MD Course in Mind Body Medicine 2025
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Comprehensive Education and Skills Development for an Integrated Model of Care
The Herbert Benson, MD Course in Mind Body Medicine will be held on October 30–November 1, 2025. You have the option to attend either online as the course is live streamed or in person in Boston, MA. All sessions will be recorded and made available to all participants to view online, at your convenience, for 60 days following the course.
COURSE OVERVIEW
Mind body approaches such as meditation, yoga, tai chi, cognitive skills, lifestyle interventions and positive psychology now boast an impressive evidence base to support their ability to improve—and in some cases, prevent—stress-related illnesses, ranging from asthma to hypertension, functional bowel diseases and pain syndromes.
Whether you are a physician, nurse, psychologist, social worker or therapist, mind body techniques provide you with evidence-based interventions to enhance patient care and clinical outcomes.
The Herbert Benson, MD Course in Mind Body Medicine is a comprehensive education program where you learn how to incorporate these skills into your practice. It teaches:
- The latest data on stress, stress management, and resilience enhancement, and their impacts on patient health and treatment options
- The mind body approaches that form the foundation of modern self-care
- When, where, and how you can employ mind body approaches to enhance patient care
- Practical skills to guide your patients in the use of self-care techniques
In addition to clinical approaches and integrative models of care, this program provides:
- Education on genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, and how to leverage recent advances in the neuroimaging of contemplative states
- Opportunities for certification
HOW TO BEGIN OR ADVANCE YOUR USE OF MIND BODY MEDICINE
For those who are new to mind body medicine, this program provides comprehensive education to begin using integrated models of care within your practice. For those who have experience in these methods, this program provides updates and workshops to take your skills to the next level.
CUSTOMIZE YOUR LEARNING EXPERIENCE
All participants can customize their learning experience. The program offers 48 skills development sessions, focused presentations, and interactive workshops. You can choose the ones that align with your specific goals and clinical interests.
WORLD-RENOWNED FACULTY
This program is taught by leading practitioners and experts in the field of mind body medicine—including Drs. Yvette Cozier, Stephen Post, Adam Rodman, Kasisomayajula Viswanath, and Rochelle Walensky, who are all experts in the scientific research and practical application of mind body medicine.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define the body’s response to stress, known as allostasis and allostatic load, and the role it plays in the development or exacerbation of medical conditions
- Recognize how modifiable lifestyle behaviors synchronized to circadian rhythm builds resiliency
- Enrich patient-provider relationship to affect patient outcomes
- Develop skills in a variety of meditation methods that elicit the relaxation response
- Evaluate the epidemiology of provider burnout and its consequences
- Summarize up-to-date meditation-induced brain imaging changes
- Develop strategies to lower your risk of provider burnout
- Enhance functional expression of empathy to improve clinical performance and personal resiliency
- Apply mind-body interventions in the treatment of multiple disease symptomatology
- Assess the influence of gut health and diet on mood
- Improve your ability to motivate patients towards sustainable behavior change
- Deliver a more effective, integrative model of care
- Use newfound skills and tools to improve patient outcomes
- Identify modifiable risk factors for brain health
- Explain mind-body science of depression
- Acquire skill in state-of-the-art cognitive behavioral therapies applied to children, adolescents and young adults with a range of emotional and behavioral problems
- Identify the components of the Benson-Henry Care Model
- Support healthcare change designed to reduce the prevalence of non-communicable diseases
- Define the underlying influences of happiness
- Formulate a more integrative model of patient care
- Experience a variety of healing modalities
- Review novel behavioral health interventions designed to influence brain health
- Interpret the signs of cognitive decline and depression as a guide towards prevention
Who Should Attend
Education and Skills Development for:
- Physicians
- Nurse Practitioners
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
- Counselors
- Dietitians
- Educators
- Health Coaches
- Physical Therapists
- Occupational Therapists
- Residents
- Fellows
…and other health professionals who provide direct patient care or patient education in areas of self-management, lifestyle behaviors and mind body medicine.
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Thursday, October 30, 2025
- 8:00 am to 8:20 am Session 1: Welcome to the Herbert Benson, MD Course in Mind Body Medicine Gregory L. Fricchione, MD
- 8:20 am to 9:20 am Session 2: KEYNOTE: Beyond Individual Happiness: Understanding the Role of “Social” in Health and Well-Being Kasisomayajula Viswanath, PhD
- 9:20 am to 9:30 am Stretch and Move Break
- 9:30 am to 10:30 am Session 3: Education and Skills Development Sessions 3A – 3C
- 3A From Complex PTSD to MD and Back: One Pediatrician’s Story Told Through a Mind-Body Perspective Mark Salvatore, MD
- 3B Culinary Medicine and Teaching Kitchens for Improving Community Health Jacob Mirsky, MD, FACLM and Elliot Kephart, RD, Chef
- 3C Mind Body Approaches to Managing Post-Traumatic Stress Zeba Ahmad, PhD
- 10:30 am to 11:00 am Break
- 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Session 4: Education and Skills Development Sessions 4A – 4C
- 4A Mind Body Medicine and the Evolution of Attachment and Cooperation Gregory L. Fricchione, MD
- 4B Psychological Well-Being in Patients with Cancer: Does Positive Psychology have a Role? Hermioni Amonoo, MD, MPP, MPH
- 4C A Mind Body Approach to Menopause Mahmooda Qureshi, MD, MSCP, DipABLM
- 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm Break*
- 1:00 pm to 1:20 pm Session 5: Optional Sessions Please note: If you would like to attend the tai chi session in person, pre-registration is requested.
- OPTIONAL A: Guided Meditation Peg Baim, MS, NP (No videos, no PDFs)
- OPTIONAL B: Experiential – Tai Chi Peter Wayne, PhD (No videos, no PDFs)
- OPTIONAL C: Ways to Use Mind Body Skills with Patients Laura Malloy, LICSW, C-IAYT (No videos, no PDFs)
- 1:30 pm to 2:30 pm Session 6: Education and Skills Development Sessions 6A – 6C
- 6A “Minding” Your Balance: Tai Chi for the Prevention of Falls and Cognitive Decline Peter Wayne, PhD
- 6B Healing Transformations: How Partnership, Presence, and Patterning Foster Patients’ Personal Integration Katherine Rosa, PhD, FNP-BC
- 6C Optimizing Health Outcomes for Your Most Vulnerable Patients Giselle Perez, PhD
- 2:30 pm to 2:40 pm Stretch and Move Break
- 2:40 pm to 3:40 pm Session 7: Education and Skills Development Sessions 7A – 7C
- 7A Advanced Meditation and the Third Wave of Meditation Research Matthew Sacchet, PhD
- 7B Qigong and Tai Chi for Treatment of Depression Albert Yeung, MD
- 7C Mind Body Practices for Managing Fear and Enhancing Resiliency: Insights from Survivors of Cancer and Mylagic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Daniel Hall, PhD
- 3:40 pm to 4:00 pm Break
- 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Session 8: Education and Skills Development Sessions 8A – 8C
- 8A Being SMART: Harnessing Resiliency Amidst Uncertainty Elyse R. Park, PhD, MPH
- 8B Think Like A Sleep Doc: A State-of-the Art Approach to Healthy Sleep Suzanne Bertisch, MD
- 8C Healthy Aging Lifestyle Interventions to Address Loneliness in OIder Adult Informal Caregivers of People Experiencing Dementia Jane Flanagan, PhD, RN, AHN-BC, ANP-BC, FAAN
- 5:00 pm to 5:10 pm Stretch and Move Break
- 5:10 pm to 6:10 pm Session 9: KEYNOTE: Stress and Response in the Black Women’s Health Study Yvette Cozier, DSc (Only PDFs, No Videos)
Friday, October 31, 2025
- 8:00 am to 9:00 am Session 10: KEYNOTE: Thinking About Stress in a Whole New Way: Lessons Learned from the Pandemic Rochelle Walensky, MD and Gregory L. Fricchione, MD
- 9:00 am to 9:10 am Stretch and Move Break
- 9:10 am to 10:10 am Session 11: Education and Skills Development Sessions 11A – 11C
- 11A The Science Underlying Sleep and Meditation John Denninger, MD, PhD
- 11B Improving Daily Happiness in Older Adult Caregivers with a Remote Virtual and Smartphone-Based Mind/Body Program Felipe Jain, MD
- 11C Workshop: Tools for Integrating Mind Body Medicine into an Office Visit Peg Baim, MS, NP
- 10:10 am to 10:30am Break
- 10:30 am to 11:30am Session 12: Interactive Workshop: How to Teach Meditation and Deepen Your Own Practice Peg Baim, MS, NP, L. Elizabeth Lincoln, MD, and Michael Nathan, MD
- 11:30 am to 11:40am Stretch and Move Break
- 11:40 am to 12:40 pm Session 13: Education and Skills Development Sessions 13A – 13C
- 13A Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, and Psychedelics Franklin King, MD
- 13B Mindfulness Training for Healthy Aging: Impact on Memory, Attention, Well-Being, and the Brain Sara Lazar, PhD
- 13C Biophilic Medicine and the Neuroimmune Benefits of Nature Madeleine A. Becker, MD, MA, FACLP, FAIHM and Ana Ivkovic, MD
- 12:40 pm to 2:00 pm Break*
- 1:15 pm to 1:45 pm Session 14: Optional Sessions Please note: If you would like to attend the tai chi session in person, pre-registration is requested.
- Optional A: Guided Meditation Ellen Slawsby, PhD (No videos, no PDFs)
- Optional B: Experiential—Tai Chi Barry Friedman (No videos, no PDFs)
- Optional C: Ways to Use Mind Body Skills with Patients Meghan Feldpausch, NP (No videos, no PDFs)
- 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Session 15: Education and Skills Development Sessions 15A – 15C
- 15A Clearing the Smoke: Exploring the Therapeutic Potential of Cannabis Staci Gruber, PhD
- 15B Yoga: Understanding the Underlying Biomedical Science and Research Sat Bir Khalsa, PhD
- 15C Music, Spirituality, and Healing Within Black LGBTQIA+ Communities Kei Slaughter, MA, MFA, BMT
- 3:00 pm to 3:10 pm Stretch and Move Break
- 3:10 pm to 4:10 pm Session 16: Education and Skills Development Sessions 16A – 16C
- 16A Heated Yoga for the Treatment of Depression Maren Nyer, PhD
- 16B Inflammation in the Brain and Body: Depression as a Whole Body Disorder John Matthews, MD
- 16C Coaching Techniques for a Sustainable Meditation Practice Michael Nathan, MD
- 4:10 pm to 4:30 pm Break
- 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm Session 17: KEYNOTE: Pure Unlimited Love: Science and the Seven Paths to Inner Peace Stephen Post, PhD
Saturday, November 1, 2025
- 8:00 am to 9:00 am Session 18: KEYNOTE: Towards a Medical Superintelligence: The Brave New World of “Reasoning Models” and the Implications for Medical Education and Human-Computer Collaboration Adam Rodman, MD, MPH
- 9:00 am to 9:10 am Stretch and Move Break
- 9:10 am to 10:10 am Session 19: Education and Skills Development Sessions 19A – 19C
- 19A Coaching Your Patients to Get Moving Beth Frates, MD
- 19B Resilient Youth Aude Henin, PhD
- 19C Integrating Mind Body Approaches in Primary Care Visits L. Elizabeth “Liz” Lincoln, MD
- 10:10 am to 10:30 am Break
- 10:30 am to 11:30 am Session 20: Education and Skills Development Sessions 20A – 20C
- 20A Beyond the Back: The Art and Science of Chiropractic Care in Whole Person Health Wren Burton, DC
- 20B It’s All in Your Mind! (and Brain…and Body): Using Mind Body Skills to Improve Resiliency in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Families Denise Velazquez, LCSW
- 20C BHI-Certified Providers Share Tips on How They Put SMART into Practice Miguel Anglada, LICSW; Silvia Ruíz Cala, MD; Kristen Gilmore, MSN, RN, CEN, TCRN, NE-BC; Irma Torres-Rivera, PhD; and John Denninger, MD, PhD
- 11:30 am to 11:40 am Stretch and Move Break
- 11:40 am to 12:40 pm Session 21: Education and Skills Development Sessions 21A – 21C
- 21A A Salute to Salutogenesis: Creating New Definitions and Delivery of Health Through Patient Care, Technology, and Education Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH
- 21B Stress and Cardiovascular Disease Ahmed Tawakol, MD
- 21C Introduction to Wellness: Positivity and Relaxation Training (PART) Tara Jones, MPH; Tom Klisiewicz, CPLP; Rana Chudnofsky, MEd
- 12:40 pm to 2:00 pm Break*
- 1:15 pm to 1:45 pm Session 22: Optional Sessions Please note: If you would like to attend the gentle yoga session in person, pre-registration is requested.
- Optional A: Guided Meditation Michael Nathan, MD (No videos, no PDFs)
- Optional B: Experiential: Gentle Yoga Laura Malloy, LICSW, C-IAYT
- Optional C: Ways to Use Mind Body Skills with Children Rana Chudnofsky, MEd
- 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Session 23: Education and Skills Development Sessions 23A – 23C
- 23A Treating Addictive Disorders Eden Evins, PhD
- 23B Mind Body Skills for Managing Pain Ellen Slawsby, PhD
- 23C A 360-Degree Approach to Study Meditation as a Tool for Mind Body Evolution Balachundhar Subramaniam, MD, MPH, FASA
- 3:00 pm to 3:10 pm Stretch and Move Break
- 3:10 pm to 4:10 pm Session 24: Going Forward: What We’ve Learned About Mind Body Medicine and How to Put It into Practice Gregory L. Fricchione, MD, Darshan Mehta, MD, MPH, Elyse R. Park, PhD, MPH, John Denninger, MD, PhD, and Katherine Rosa, PhD, FNP-BC (No videos)
