Tuesday Evening SMART Group with Meghan Feldpausch, NP

This page is for patients who have already been seen in the Benson-Henry Institute clinic to register for the upcoming SMART program with Meghan Feldpausch, NP.  The cost of the program is $625.

Questions? Please contact Kiara Robinson at krobinson11@mgb.org.

The next SMART program with Meghan Feldpausch will begin Wednesday, April 30th and continue for 8 sessions.  The classes are being held weekly via Zoom from 5:30 to 7:30 PM.

Resilient Youth Program

Drawing from well-established, evidence-based interventions to manage stress and build resilience in children and adolescents, the Child Resiliency Program at Mass General Hospital is offering Resilient Youth workshops to youth in the Mass General Brigham network and to children of MGB employees.  Separate small-group meetings are offered for youth in Elementary (Grades 1-4), Middle (Grades 5-8), and High School (Grades 9-12). Groups are 45 minutes and are held on Wednesdays beginning October 9th and running for 6 weeks.  The cost is $75 per participant.  

During these sessions, educators will discuss physical and cognitive responses to stress, and will provide opportunities to develop and practice self-care and resiliency skills to buffer stress and improve well-being.

Your child will learn:

• How stress affects thoughts and feelings
• Techniques to stay calm in stressful situations.
• Strategies for managing stress and staying calm during testing administration.
• Meditation methods that can reduce symptoms and improve physical health, such as deep breathing, mindfulness and imagery.
• How to foster positive thoughts and attitudes
• How to develop long-lasting positive habits that can build personal resiliency.

Experience with digital health devices to help children with body awareness.

Courses will be held live via Zoom at the following times:

• Grades 1 -4 – 4:00 – 4:45 PM EST
• Grades 5 -8 – 5:15 – 6:00 PM EST
• Grades 9 – 12 – 5:00 – 5:45 PM EST

Contact: For more information, please contact Samreen Sethi at sssethi@mgh.harvard.edu

Congratulations on recertifying as a SMART Certified Healthcare Clinician! Please continue to engage in our quarterly calls with BHI leaders and other SMART certified clinicians.

Questions? Please email Samreen Sethi at sssethi@mgb.org

 

This program is designed to assist individuals without a cancer diagnosis but who carry a genetic variant putting them at higher risk for cancer. The program will provide critical tools to help individuals cope with the experience of being identified to be at high genetic risk for cancer

Participants in the Mind Body Program for Individual at High Risk for Cancer will utilize a SMART Patient Manual and Guided Meditations. Non-refundable cost of the manual: $65. Virtual interactive groups led by Dr. April Hirschberg will be offered through the MGH Cancer Center Waltham.

Please contact group leader ahirschberg@partners.org before registering to ensure that this group is right for you.

Unfortunately, because this group is geared toward individuals who are at high risk of hereditary cancer, but do not have cancer, we are unable to accommodate individuals with a history of having cancer. There is an MGH Mind Body Program for Cancer Survivors mghsurvivorship@partners.org

Mind Body Flier – Winter 2025

SMART Mentoring

This page is for clinicians already accepted into the certification pathway who are ready to begin the mentoring phase of the pathway.  Mentees will have already completed the following pre-requisites:

• Submission of application and clinical license
• Completion of the 3-day Continuing Medical Education conference or, at minimum, Course 1 of the three online MGH Psychiatry Academy courses, Stress and the RR: Fundamentals
• Completion of an 8-week SMART class
• Completion of a 2-day Implementation Training

Mentoring consists of nine 1-hour sessions with a BHI clinician who will guide you during delivery of your first group.  Your clinician mentor will meet with you via Zoom or by phone for one week before the group begins and weekly during delivery to help you plan, answer any questions, work through any challenges and serve as your support during your first SMART group.

Questions? Please email sssethi@mgb.org.

Coping with Stress and Emotions During Pregnancy

Pregnant women aged 18-years and above who experiencing difficulty coping with stress and/or mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety or depression are invited to participate in this 8-week program.

The group will utilize the Stress Management and Resiliency Training Program (SMART), an evidence-based multi-modal mind body medicine group developed at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.  Discussions will focus on applying the skills in the program to the context of pregnancy and preparing for the postpartum, including stressors in the context of COVID-19. Participants will be expected to purchase the $50 SMART manual for participation in the group.

Led by Tina Luberto, PhD and Rachel Vanderkruik, PhD, MSc, the program will be held on Thursdays 4:00-5:15 PM starting April 1, 2021 (through Thursday May 20, 2021).

SMART Certification for Licensed Health Clinicians – Exam Payment

Congratulations, you are just a step away from certification!  In order to take the exam, we ask that you pay the $500 application fee. Once done, BHI will reach out with a link to the exam, which is housed on the MGH Psychiatry Academy website.

The exam consists of 66 multiple choice questions and a passing score of 80 percent is required.  You may take the exam up to three times.  Please note: at the completion of your test submission, the entire test appears with answer prompts for you to review as needed.

Questions? Please email sssethi@mgb.org.

SMART Certification for Licensed Healthcare Clinicians Application

The Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine (BHI) at Massachusetts General Hospital invites licensed healthcare practitioners to train and earn certification in its Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) program. The certification program provides rigorous training in the BHI SMART model and gives clinicians the basis for offering and studying the efficacy of the SMART program in clinical populations. To obtain certification, participants must be a licensed healthcare practitioner.

To begin the certification pathway, you must submit a completed certification application and a copy of your medical license, along with the $250 application fee.  Questions? Please email jmeek@partners.org

Download Application

SMART Implementation Trainings are for clinicians already accepted into the certification pathway who have already completed the following pre-requisites:

• Submission of application and clinical license
• Completion of the 3-day Continuing Medical Education conference or, at minimum, course 1 of the three online MGH Psychiatry Academy courses, Stress and the RR: Fundamentals
• Completion of an 8-week SMART class

Implementation Trainings are held for two consecutive days from 9 AM to 4 PM EST on Zoom.

Questions? Please email sssethi@mgb.org

PART for Certification Candidates

The Benson-Henry Institute (BHI) for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital trains individuals who work in or have a passion for the health and wellness fields in the delivery of self-care techniques to promote health, happiness and generalized wellbeing in community and corporate settings.  The Positivity and Relaxation Training (PART) program is a 9-session group education program that helps participants develop skills to manage stress and cultivate a more positive outlook.

PART certification candidates may use this page as a means of paying fees for individual components of the certification pathway.  Questions? Please email jmeek@partners.org.

Thank you!