No. This program doesn’t diagnose or treat mental health conditions, and it isn’t a substitute for therapy. It’s a skills-based training grounded in mindfulness and contemplative practice, focused specifically on moral injury: the strain between your values and what you witness or do in your work. Many people find it works well alongside therapy, not instead of it.

The training itself is identical across all three tiers: six one-on-one sessions, the same framework, the same guidance. What differs is what your investment makes possible beyond your own training. The Personal Investment tier covers your training. Pay It Forward and Full Sponsor also support free training for caregivers who couldn’t pay for it themselves.

Mindfulness For Life is built on a simple belief: people who have the means to invest in their own growth are often glad to help extend that same opportunity to someone who couldn’t access it otherwise. And in our experience, that act of generosity tends to enrich their own experience with us, because the values that bring you to this work in the first place are the same ones that make it meaningful to pay it forward.

Each session is 45 minutes. We recommend scheduling the first three sessions about two weeks apart, and the remaining three about a month apart, giving you time to put what you’re learning into practice between sessions. That’s our recommended cadence, but every session is scheduled at your convenience, so the pace can flex to fit your life.

Mindfulness isn’t about clearing your mind or achieving some perfectly calm state. It’s the practiced skill of noticing what’s actually happening in your body, your thoughts, and your reactions, without immediately getting swept up in it. Meditation is one way to build that skill, but it isn’t the only way, and you don’t need any meditation experience to begin this program. Most people are already practicing small moments of mindfulness without realizing it. This training simply gives you a name for what you’re doing, and sharpens it into something you can rely on.

This program is designed to help you manage the tension between the good you want to do and what your resources and circumstances actually allow, whether you’re just starting to feel that strain or you’ve been carrying it for years. It is not designed for acute crisis, including suicidal thoughts or safety concerns. If that’s where you are right now, please reach out to a crisis line or mental health professional first. Once you’re in a stable place, this training can be a meaningful part of what comes next.

What makes this program distinctive is the specific foundation it’s built on: trauma-sensitive mindfulness, an understanding of the dynamics of moral injury, and the science of human flourishing, one of the most rigorous areas of research into what it actually takes to thrive, not just cope. It’s developed and taught by Adam Berner, who holds formal training and certification in all of the above, and has completed over 20,000 hours of formal contemplative practice, including a three-and-a-half-year immersive retreat.

Yes. Organizations can enroll staff at any tier, and we’re glad to set up arrangements for multiple people. Paid enrollments help sustain our ability to offer subsidized spots for caregivers who couldn’t otherwise access this training. If your organization can’t cover the cost, reach out anyway. Subsidized spots are limited, but we look at every request.

Yes. Single one-on-one sessions are $100, scheduled at your convenience. They’re a good fit for working through one specific situation, but they’re separate from this program and don’t follow its six-session framework. Because the program builds along a specific arc from the first session on, a single session doesn’t count toward the program fee. If you want the full training, the program is the way to get it, and at $499 it works out to less than $85 a session.

Yes. Getting this training to frontline caregivers who couldn't otherwise access it is the heart of Mindfulness For Life's charitable mission, and subsidized spots are how we do it. They're supported by paid enrollments, Anchor Club members, and donors. Most of the time a subsidized spot means a full place in the program. Sometimes a few individual sessions are a better fit, and we can offer those instead. Spots are limited and depend on funding and capacity, so we can't promise one to everyone, but we read every request. Use the “Request a Subsidized Spot” button in the enrollment section above, or email info@mindfulness-for-life.org, and tell us a little about your work.