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MINDSIGHT INTENSIVE
An intensive, long-term mindfulness training embedded into everyday living to solidify mindfulness as a way of life.
After completing the MBSRX, or if you have other prior mindfulness meditation experience, and wish an in-depth training to make mindfulness a way of life, this program is for you. The Mindsight Intensive is structured to be transformative, integrative, and healing. It is a sort of boot camp, immersing students through mindsight into the direct and in-depth exploration of experience to discover how we create complex, sometimes unclouded, sometimes distorted realities we end up living by.
Focus and Curriculum:
The mind is the most complex phenomenon in the known universe, there is no easy way of exploring its depths and creating fundamental life changes. Our mind’s capacity to fool us is so limitless that only the most rigorous mind training will provide us with a fighting chance to mine its depth for the purpose of decreasing our suffering.
The program content varies each year and students find that it takes at least 5 years of participation to develop solidity and proficiency in their ability to embody everyday mindfulness to its full depth.
The Journey of Practice
While the content evolves each year, the methodical trajectory remains the same:
- Foundations of Mindfulness
We begin by deepening the foundations and principles of mindfulness practice, building on and expanding what participants learned in MBSR-X.
- Psychosomatic Integration
We explore the field of consciousness - our conscious and unconscious patterns, the influence of childhood experiences, and how these shape the way we navigate life. This stage develops greater awareness of the connection between mind, body, and personal experience.
- Existential Integration
As the limitations of ordinary consciousness become clearer, we move more deeply into the existential questions of life. The field of nothingness opens a more spacious mode of awareness, challenging familiar assumptions and offering new ways of relating to suffering.
- Spiritual Integration
The journey culminates in the field of emptiness, where existence and non-existence, object and process, and left- and right-brain functioning become increasingly integrated. This deeper awareness can support a profound release from suffering and is often described as spiritual integration.
Developing Your Practice
Participants learn meditation techniques until they become increasingly natural and adaptable to everyday experience. At the same time, each person is encouraged to honour their individual needs and develop a practice that works for them. Particular emphasis is placed on trauma-informed, resource-based mindfulness, helping participants cultivate the internal resources needed to safely navigate challenging mental and emotional states.
Session structure and recordings:
Each session includes various combinations of these elements:
Guided meditations and/or group exercises to develop proficiency in mindfulness meditation techniques that ensure success in developing solidity of the mindful attitude.
Presentations that cover various topics and provide the conceptual background that allows participants to remain consistently oriented in the right direction. Dr. Treyvaud’s presentations are embedded in a practice- and interaction-oriented process, ensuring an intensity of training that allows participants to examine the deepest layers of experience and penetrate the core of awareness.
Q & A provides participants the opportunity to not only ask questions but also be individually guided in the exploration of challenges they encounter on their path to progress.
Group process work that sometimes includes the use of breakout rooms.
Participants are encouraged to deepen their skills by occasionally taking the lead in guiding meditation practices. All sessions are recorded and the recordings remain indefinitely electronically available to students.
Cost, Access and Commitment:
30 Mondays
6:30 - 9:00 pm | October 19, 2026 - June 7, 2027
9 sessions October 19 - December 14, 2026
21 sessions January 4 - June 7, 2027
(February 15 & May 24, 2027 excluded for holidays)
Location: Online (Zoom)
Cost: $2150.00 (includes participation in Mobility Mind)
Payment due by e-transfer before the first session.
Student material:
All sessions are fully recorded.
Recordings, slides, and other materials are indefinitely available in an online student folder.
Administration:
Punctuality is important and fosters group trust. Please make sure to log in well before the starting time to ensure you have resolved any technical issues beforehand.
Commitment:
Students who are interested in the Mindsight Intensive already have mindfulness experience and are therefore familiar with how challenging it is to embody mindfulness as a way of life. Transformation can only be achieved through the long-term effort that facing our mind’s complexity deserves and demands.
The program is thus structured to run through a whole academic year of thirty sessions, and students with different, more short-term needs who might want to leave after a trimester or two should not join.
The work’s intensity requires group cohesion and safety, as well as a shared sense that we can count on each other to work through tough challenges and moments together.
