Become the Practitioner
People Seek Out Trust Deeply Never Forget

Help People Move Beyond Understanding—Into Direct, Embodied Transformation

A neuroscience-informed, trauma-aware approach that moves people from conceptual insight into embodied change. A six-month certification for experienced practitioners ready to facilitate regulation, resilience, and compassionate self-leadership.

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Regulate the Nervous System

Work with states, not just thoughts

Facilitate Direct Experience

Guide people past conceptual insight

Hold Trauma-Aware Space

Recognize and respond to activation

Lead From Embodied Presence

Teach from what you've integrated

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Master a revolutionary, neuroscience-based, trauma-informed methodology

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Help clients experience deeper and more lasting transformation

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Differentiate yourself in a crowded marketplace

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Build a thriving practice through extraordinary client outcomes

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Generate more referrals, retention, trust, and loyalty

The Professional Gap

Your Clients Do Not Simply Need More Information

They need experiences that reach beneath explanation—experiences of their own nervous system settling, their attention stabilizing, their body becoming more available, and new possibilities becoming directly knowable from within.

As a skilled professional, you may already help people gain insight, make better choices, and understand themselves more clearly.

But insight alone often does not produce change when stress rises and the nervous system takes over.

The field needs a more complete bridge between mindfulness, the nervous system, direct embodied experience, and the professional art of facilitation.

NSM addresses this gap by training both the methodology and the person who facilitates it.

Why?

  1. 01Traditional mindfulness instruction can remain abstract, effortful, or disconnected from the body.
  2. 02People may want transformation, yet struggle to sustain motivation when they do not feel meaningful change early in the process.
  3. 03Helping professionals often receive little direct feedback on the subtle craft of pacing, language, presence, and embodied facilitation.
  4. 04Even experienced practitioners can continue teaching from knowledge rather than from a deeply stabilized embodied presence.
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What Is Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™?

A Category of One in Professional Mindfulness

Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ is a deeply embodied, neuroscience-informed approach to classical mindfulness-awareness practice developed by Fleet Maull, PhD. It emphasizes interoception—the capacity to sense the body from within—and the use of direct internal experience as a form of neuro-biological feedback. NSM remains fully rooted in mindfulness and meditation while expanding their professional application.

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Conceptual

The trained capacity to sense what is happening inside the body with accuracy, rather than inferring it from thought.

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Direct sensate experience

Working with experience as it is actually felt in the moment, not with the description or interpretation of it.

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Internal neuro-biofeedback

Using the body's own signals as live feedback, so a person can recognise and influence their state as it shifts.

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State to trait

Repeated, structured practice that turns a momentary state into a stable, developmental trait available under pressure.

The rootMindfulness and meditation
The methodologyNeuro-Somatic Mindfulness™
The purposeHuman flourishing
The NSM Advantage

Why NSM-Trained Professionals
Create Transformational Impact—Fast

Mindfulness-trained professionals often see results emerge gradually—but NSM-trained professionals create immediate, discernible shifts clients can feel in the session itself. That's the "wow factor" that builds referrals, reputation, and a thriving practice.

CategoryMindfulness-Trained Coaches, Consultants & TherapistsNSM-Trained Coaches, Consultants & Therapists
When Results AppearWeeks to months of consistent practiceDiscernible shifts within the session itself
Client ExperienceGradual awareness and understandingImmediate, felt change—clients notice something different
The "Wow" FactorVague, if there at allTangible, immediate impact clients can feel and describe
Word of Mouth"My coach is really good.""This was amazing—you need to work with them."
Market PositionOne of many qualified practitionersClearly differentiated—a methodology that makes you stand out in a saturated field
Business GrowthBuilds slowly through trust over time or stalls due to being “one of many”Referrals accelerate—results speak for themselves, "category of one status… the best"
Professional ConfidenceStrong in calm, reflective settingsEffective in high-stakes, high-pressure moments too

NSM helps you become the practitioner clients feel—and refer.

More Impact. More Trust. More Growth.

When clients experience real shifts early, they stay engaged, commit to the process, and become your best advocates.

Deeper TrustHigher EngagementMore ReferralsThriving Practice
Advanced Professional Specialization

This Is an Advanced Professional Specialization—and the Beginning of a New Field

This certification is not designed to teach beginners how to meditate, nor is it another broad survey of mindfulness concepts. It is designed for professionals who already bring an established practice, meaningful life experience, and a commitment to helping others. You will deepen your own embodiment while learning how to facilitate Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness skillfully, ethically, and confidently in your existing professional setting. NSM Foundations, or an approved equivalent pathway, is required before beginning the certification.

Why Most Approaches Fall Short

Top-down makes sense in theory. It loses power under stress.

Most coaching, mindfulness, therapy, and leadership programs work from the top down. That approach has real value—until cognition narrows and the nervous system takes the wheel.

Traditional Approaches

Focus on changing thoughts
Rely heavily on insight
Emphasize behavior modification
Often lose effectiveness under stress
May leave deeper patterns untouched

Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™

Begins with nervous system safety
Develops interoceptive awareness
Works through embodied experience
Creates conditions for neuroplastic change
Supports deep integration

NSM helps practitioners work where experience is actually created rather than where it is merely interpreted.

The Transformation

Become the Kind of Facilitator People Can Feel

The Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness Professional Certification is designed to develop these capacities together—so you can become not only a more skillful mindfulness professional, but a trusted facilitator of embodied transformation and human flourishing.

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Facilitate experiences clients can feel

Facilitate Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness experiences that clients can feel—not simply understand.

Create early experiences of regulation and possibility

Create early experiences of regulation, safety, presence, connection, and possibility that foster trust and encourage continued engagement.

Move from insight into embodied learning

Help clients move from insight into direct embodied learning and increasingly reliable self-regulation.

Integrate NSM into your existing work

Integrate NSM naturally into your work as a coach, therapist, mindfulness teacher, yoga teacher, healthcare professional, educator, leader, or other helping professional.

Guide individuals and groups

Guide individuals and groups with greater embodied presence, confidence, compassion, and effectiveness.

Explain NSM with professional credibility

Explain the principles and science of Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness with clarity and professional credibility.

Use trauma-aware, invitational language

Use trauma-aware, invitational language and remain within appropriate professional scope.

Differentiate your work

Differentiate your work through an advanced professional specialization grounded in contemplative wisdom, contemporary science, and embodied transformation.

Join the founding professional community

Join a founding professional community committed to lifelong learning, ethical practice, and the continuing development of the NSM field.

Who This Is For

Designed for Experienced Professionals Who Work with Human Growth and Transformation

NSM is a methodology you can integrate into the professional identity and scope you already hold. You do not need to become a different kind of professional. You will learn to bring a deeper embodied dimension to the work you are already doing.

Mindfulness and Meditation Teachers Deepen your own practice and expand your teaching beyond conceptual instruction into interoceptive, embodied, and progressively nondual approaches.
Coaches Help clients regulate, access deeper self-awareness, interrupt habitual reactivity, and translate insight into felt, actionable change.
Therapists, Counselors, and Psychologists Add structured mindfulness and embodied awareness practices that can complement clinical work while respecting professional scope and the needs of each client.
Yoga and Somatic Movement Teachers Connect outer-body awareness with the internal sensate landscape, nervous system regulation, and contemplative practice.
Psychedelic Medicine/Therapy Therapists and Guides Provide clients with embodied and trauma-informed preparation and integration support for psychedelic sessions while they also learn embodied awareness skills for navigating psychedelic sessions.
Physicians, Nurses, and Healthcare Professionals Offer accessible practices that support presence, stress regulation, resilience, and a more humane experience of care.
Wellness and Integrative Health Professionals Bring a rigorous embodied mindfulness methodology into programs focused on stress, vitality, behavior change, and whole-person wellbeing.
Educators and Academic Leaders Support attention, emotional regulation, relational presence, and resilience in learning communities while deepening your own capacity to lead.
Organizational Leaders and Facilitators Strengthen self-regulation, co-regulation, compassionate leadership, and the capacity to remain present under pressure.
Chaplaincy, Spiritual Care, and Contemplative Professionals Integrate a secular, embodied practice language that can support people across diverse beliefs and backgrounds.
Experienced Helping Professionals in Transition Develop a distinctive specialization that can renew your professional identity, deepen your confidence, and expand how you serve.

This program is not intended to qualify participants to diagnose or treat conditions outside their existing professional license, training, or scope of practice.

Prerequisites

Applicants Should Have

01Practice

Consistent mindfulness or meditation practice

At least three years of consistent mindfulness or meditation practice, including completion of at least one teacher-led, in-person, week-long silent meditation retreat.

02Professional

Recognized certification or professional background

  • Mindfulness teacher or trainer
  • Yoga teacher
  • Psychotherapist or psychologist
  • Coach
  • Another professional with comparable training and experience
03Foundation

Completion of the NSM Foundations course

If you have not completed the NSM Foundations course, complete it prior to January 15, 2027.

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Need professional prerequisite training?

If you do not have previous professional training, use the pathway below to complete the professional prerequisite described above.

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The Path of Mastery

Certification is a milestone.Not the end of the journey.

In Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness, mastery is not a destination. It is an ongoing commitment to practice, curiosity, reflection, feedback, and continual refinement. Certification recognizes demonstrated competence; it marks your entry into the founding community of NSM professionals and a lifelong path of embodied practice, transformational facilitation, and service to human flourishing.

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Certification

Demonstrated competence.

FeedbackMasteryService

In Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness we do not pursue perfection.

We cultivate an unending capacity to learn, deepen, and refine.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Program Overview

The program unfolds through two integrated phases. The first develops the knowledge, personal embodiment, and professional competencies that define NSM. The second turns those capacities into observable facilitation skill through practice, feedback, coaching, and assessment. Together, these phases form one developmental arc: learn the methodology, embody it, practice transmitting it, receive precise feedback, and demonstrate professional competence.

PHASE ONE

Professional Formation

  • ●Twelve integrated modules organized within six core areas
  • ●Daily practice
  • ●Weekly Community of Practice
  • ●Reflection and application assignments
  • ●Monthly live teaching and mentoring with Fleet Maull
  • ●Preparation for practicum
PHASE TWO

Supervised Professional Practicum

  • ●Progressive practice teaching
  • ●Recorded submissions
  • ●Detailed personalized feedback reports
  • ●Faculty coaching and peer learning
  • ●Refinement of teaching presence and methodology
  • ●Final certification demonstration
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About Fleet Maull

Created and Led by Fleet Maull, PhD

Roshi Fleet Maull, PhD is a meditation teacher, social entrepreneur, author, executive coach, and the founder of HeartMind and Prison Dharma Network. His work integrates more than five decades of contemplative practice and teaching across Tibetan, Zen, Vipassana, secular Nondual, and mainstream mindfulness traditions, integrating trauma-informed and neuroscience-based approaches with inner yoga energy work, positive psychology, leadership development, and social transformation.

He developed Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness as a deeply embodied, neuroscience-based approach to classical mindfulness-awareness practice—one designed to help contemporary practitioners move beyond conceptual observation into direct sensate experience, nervous system trust, compassionate self-leadership, and a progressively deeper and more stable experience of presence and being.

Fleet will provide the core contextual teachings for each week and lead monthly live mentoring and integration sessions throughout the certification.

Fleet's Role in the Program

  • Overall methodology and certification standards
  • 12 Video Teaching Modules in Phase 1
  • 6 Monthly Live Group Mentoring
  • Final Certification Review
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HeartMind Institute
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Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™
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2M+
people reached across six continents
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Contemplative & Integral Medicine
Author
Radical Responsibility
Leading Voices

See What Leading Mindfulness Teachers Say About Dr. Fleet Maull’s Book and Teaching

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Tara Brach, PhD

Author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge

The path of Radical Responsibility evolves our capacity to respond—with wisdom, courage, and love—to the suffering of our world. Author Fleet Maull guides us masterfully in awakening from our separateness and inspires a profound dedication to caring for ourselves and each other.
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Jack Kornfield, PhD

Author of A Path with Heart

Radical Responsibility is an empowering and heartfelt guidebook to living more fully, a systematic training for practical liberation in your life.
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Sharon Salzberg

Author of Real Happiness and Real Love

Following the path Radical Responsibility—a gift to us from author Fleet Maull's amazing real-life backstory—we learn to own our choices and create the freedom to craft our lives to be truly happy, reach our highest potential, and be a force for good that can change the world.
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Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD

Abbot of Upaya Zen Center and author of Standing at the Edge

This important work by Fleet Maull is full of practical wisdom and written from his deep experience as a teacher, practitioner, and guide of corporate executives, chaplains, and those serving others. It is a rare treasure and a book for today and for all time.
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Daniel Goleman

Author of Emotional Intelligence

Fleet Maull draws on his unique life journey and remarkable expertise, sharing with us how we can find equanimity and compassion in the maelstrom of our days. Radical Responsibility offers a sound and original blueprint for a life well lived.
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Richard J. Davidson, PhD

Founder and Director, Center for Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin–Madison

A practical, direct, and accessible guide to human flourishing from someone who faced tremendous adversity and emerged from this challenge with vigor, equanimity, and the deepest passion to share his wisdom for the benefit of others. This book is a gift for anyone facing adversity, which is all of us!
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Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD

Author of Full Catastrophe Living and Mindfulness for All

Fleet Maull’s creative and time-tested framework for reining in your own mind’s inflammatory, self-destructive, imprisoning tendencies can be powerfully freeing―and healing. All you need to do is put it into practice. He guides you in exactly how to do that and sustain it for life. You couldn’t be in better hands or have a more capable and authentic guide.
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David Emerald (Womeldorff)

Author of The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic)

Fleet Maull has lived a life of transformation. Emerging from a drama-filled life that led to imprisonment, he knows deeply what I call the ‘Dreaded Drama Triangle’—originally the Karpman Drama Triangle—and its roles of Victim, Persecutor, and Rescuer. His journey of awakening to his essence as a Creator should be an inspiration to all. He is an exemplar of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic®) and, through Radical Responsibility, he serves as a Challenger and Coach to readers to become Creators in their own lives.
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Joseph Goldstein

Author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening

It's a rare privilege to read the work of someone who walks the talk as fully as Fleet Maull. The transforming wisdom of his extraordinary life experience—from dharma practitioner to prison inmate to spiritual mentor—suffuses every page of this wonderful book. Engaging, pragmatic, and deeply insightful, Radical Responsibility shows us all how to take responsibility for the habit patterns of our lives. With personal stories, psychological research, and a range of meditative exercises, Fleet illuminates the possibilities of living a freer and more joyful life. Highly recommended.
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Ronald D. Siegel, PsyD

Aassistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School and author of The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems

At once inspiring and practical, this book masterfully shows us how to thrive in the face of adversity. Based on insights from ancient wisdom traditions, modern neuroscience, contemporary psychology, and his own remarkable journey from maximum-security prison inmate to transformative teacher, Fleet Maull provides a wealth of accessible tools anyone can use to discover their own basic goodness and engage more fruitfully in the world. With warmth, skill, and humility, he provides step-by-step instructions to help us courageously face reality, heal our wounds, and live richer, happier, more fulfilled, and effective lives.
Faculty

Supported by Experienced NSM Practitioners.

Weekly integration and practicum support will be led by experienced NSM faculty coaches who have trained directly in the methodology and are completing the same certification standards expected of the founding cohort. This faculty-apprenticeship model supports a consistent culture of feedback, integrity, and lifelong learning across future cohorts.

Fleet Maull

Founder · Live Teaching & Mentoring

Angie Hight

NSM Coach, Yoga & QiGong Teacher

PHASE ONE · WEEKS 1–12
The Formation

Professional Formation · Weeks 1–12

The first twelve weeks are not a passive content library. They are a carefully structured formation process designed to deepen how you understand NSM, how you experience it in your own body, and how you begin to transmit it professionally.

01Contextual Teaching from Fleet
02Curated Certification Lessons
03Guided NSM Practice
04Reflection & Professional Application
05Faculty-Led Community of Practice
06Preparation for Practicum
The Six Core Areas

Twelve Modules. Six Integrated Areas of Professional Formation.

Each core area spans two weeks. Together they form a developmental arc from conceptual understanding to embodied mastery, healing and professional growth, relational presence, scientific grounding, and professional integration.

TWELVE MODULES · ONE CONTINUOUS FORMATION
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CORE AREA ONE · MODULES 1–2

The Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ Framework

Understand the worldview, principles, and distinctions that make NSM a coherent methodology rather than a collection of techniques.

MODULE 01

The HeartMind Vision, Human Flourishing, and Basic Goodness

You Will Explore

The developmental aims of HeartMind; basic goodness as experiential ground; human flourishing as embodied, developmental, relational, and ethical.

MODULE 02

The NSM Distinction: Interoception, Internal Neuro-Biofeedback, and Embodied Awareness

You Will Explore

The movement from top-down effort toward direct sensate experience; state-to-trait development and the progressive stabilization of embodied awareness.

CORE AREA TWO · MODULES 3–4

Embodied Presence & Mastery

Deepen your own practice through a progressive journey from foundational attention and embodiment toward open awareness and nondual resting in being.

MODULE 03

Deepening Embodied Awareness and Nervous System Trust

You Will Explore

The progressive 21-Day NSM practice journey; stable embodied presence; interoceptive precision and curiosity; self-regulation through direct internal experience.

MODULE 04

From Focused Attention to Open Awareness and Resting in Being

You Will Explore

Open awareness and nondual resting in being; a lifelong orientation toward practice, learning, and mastery.

CORE AREA THREE · MODULES 5–6

Healing & Professional Development

Use NSM as a pathway for your own continuing healing, emotional maturity, resilience, self-leadership, and development as a trustworthy professional presence.

MODULE 05

Internal Co-Regulation, Unconditional Okayness, and Embodied Resilience

You Will Explore

Unconditional okayness; safe, resourced, and connected states; internal co-regulation; regenerative self-parenting.

MODULE 06

Radical Responsibility, Self-Leadership, and Professional Presence

You Will Explore

Radical responsibility; embodied self-leadership; how personal development shapes professional effectiveness.

CORE AREA FOUR · MODULES 7–8

Compassion & Relational Presence

Develop compassion as an embodied relational capacity that strengthens connection, attunement, and the ability to remain present with the full range of human experience.

MODULE 07

Self-Compassion and Loving-Kindness as Embodied Capacities

You Will Explore

Self-compassion without self-indulgence; loving-kindness as systematic practice.

MODULE 08

Relational Presence: Benefactors, Neutral People, Difficult People, and the Wider Human Community

You Will Explore

Working with relational contraction and reactivity; compassion for difficult people; relational presence in professional settings; the movement from personal practice toward social concern and contribution.

CORE AREA FIVE · MODULES 9–10

Science & Contemporary Understanding

Ground your work in a clear understanding of contemporary meditation research, psychology, neuroscience, stress regulation, compassion, resilience, wisdom, and meaning.

MODULE 09

The Science of Attention, Mindfulness, Emotion, and Self-Regulation

You Will Explore

Mindfulness as a trainable capacity; attention networks and neuroplasticity; thoughts, emotions, and reactivity; stress physiology and resilience.

MODULE 10

Compassion, Resilience, Relationships, Wisdom, and Human Flourishing

You Will Explore

Self-compassion and prosocial capacities; relationships, meaning, and wisdom; how to speak about science accurately without overstating claims.

CORE AREA SIX · MODULES 11–12

Professional Integration & Lifelong Mastery

Learn to facilitate NSM skillfully and integrate it into your existing work with confidence, integrity, clear scope, and an ongoing commitment to reflective practice.

MODULE 11

The Art and Craft of Facilitating Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness

You Will Explore

Teaching presence, language, pacing, and silence; invitational and trauma-aware facilitation; guiding direct sensate experience; working with questions, resistance, activation, and uncertainty.

MODULE 12

Ethical Professional Integration and Preparation for Practicum

You Will Explore

Professional scope and ethical boundaries; introducing NSM to clients and groups; preparing for supervised teaching and certification assessment.

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The Practice Spine

A Progressive Journey from Foundation to Nondual Resting in Being.

Your professional credibility begins with your own experience. Throughout the opening phase, the 21-Day NSM practice progression provides a coherent daily journey designed to deepen and stabilize the capacities you will later facilitate for others. The progression begins with foundational embodied attention and interoceptive awareness, then develops greater nervous system trust, open awareness, and increasingly subtle forms of resting in being. This is not “practice homework.” It is the experiential spine of the certification: a direct encounter with the methodology you will eventually transmit.

Weekly Learning Rhythm

Weekly Learning Rhythm
Four Movements. One Integrated Practice.

  1. 01Study - Engage with the week's contextual teaching, established NSM curriculum, science, and professional framework.
  2. 02Practice - Practice the method personally and recognize its effects from within your own experience.
  3. 03Offer - Guide another person through an appropriately structured experience of the week's practice.
  4. 04Reflect - Reflect, receive feedback, clarify questions, and apply the learning professionally.
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Live Learning & Community

You Will Not Be Doing This Alone.

Professional development happens through relationship. The certification combines self-paced learning with live integration, guided practice, discussion, feedback, and a community of experienced peers.

WEEKLY

Faculty-Led Community of Practice

MONTHLY

Live Teaching & Mentoring with Fleet Maull

ONGOING

Practice Partners & Peer Learning

Phase Two

Supervised Professional Practicum · Weeks 13–24

Knowledge becomes professional capability through deliberate practice. During the practicum, you will guide real NSM experiences, receive detailed feedback, make targeted improvements, and demonstrate growing competence over time. The practicum is progressive rather than pass-or-fail.

DEMONSTRATED
COMPETENCE
Teaching Demonstrations
Recorded Submissions
Personalized Feedback
Faculty Coaching
Final Assessment
Phase Two · Supervised Professional Practicum

Knowledge Becomes Professional Capability Through Deliberate Practice

Each teaching demonstration is designed to reveal what is working, identify the highest-value areas for improvement, and give you a clear strategy for your next level of development.

Teach → Record → Self-assess → Rubric feedback → Coach → Refine → Demonstrate again
Progressively more advanced teaching demonstrations
Audio or video submissions during developmental stages
Video required for the final certification demonstration
Structured self-assessment and reflective review
Comprehensive personalized feedback reports
Specific strengths, developmental edges, and improvement strategies
Faculty coaching and opportunities to apply feedback in subsequent submissions
A final assessment based on demonstrated competency—not merely course completion
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Immediate Impact & Enduring Relationships

Help Clients Experience Why the Work Matters

People are more likely to stay engaged in a meaningful process when they can sense that something real is happening. NSM is designed to help you facilitate direct experiences of regulation, presence, inner connection, and possibility—often early in the relationship. The aim is not to manufacture dramatic experiences or promise instant transformation.

Direct experience
Trust
Motivation
Shared language
Recognized progress
Deeper engagement
Referrals

These authentic early experiences can build trust in you and in the process, increase motivation to continue practicing, create a shared experiential language for future work, help clients recognize progress, support deeper engagement and more enduring professional relationships, and increase the likelihood that satisfied clients speak meaningfully about their experience to others. Professional growth can emerge naturally when your work becomes more experiential, more effective, and more clearly differentiated.

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Certification Competencies

What You Will Be Developing Throughout the Six Months

Eight facilitator competencies form the foundation of your development and final assessment.

01Embodied PresenceThe ability to guide from a grounded, regulated, authentic presence rather than relying only on scripts or conceptual knowledge.
02NSM MethodologyA clear grasp of interoception, internal neuro-biofeedback, direct sensate experience, focused attention, open awareness, and the progressive arc of practice.
03Guidance and PacingSkillful use of language, tone, silence, timing, and attention cues to support direct experience.
04Trauma-Aware FacilitationAn invitational, resourcing-oriented approach that respects agency, nervous system variability, professional scope, and individual choice.
05Relational PresenceThe capacity to remain connected, compassionate, and responsive without over-directing, fixing, or making ungrounded interpretations.
06Professional IntegrationThe ability to adapt NSM appropriately within your established role, population, and setting.
07Reflective PracticeThe capacity to receive feedback, examine your impact, and continue learning throughout your professional life.
08Ethics and IntegrityA commitment to accurate claims, appropriate boundaries, informed consent, and responsible use of the methodology.
Certification Standards

Certification Based on Demonstrated Competence.

Certification will recognize your ability to facilitate Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness with sufficient knowledge, embodiment, professional judgment, and practical skill. Completion of videos alone will not qualify a participant for certification. Participants who need additional development may be invited to complete targeted practice or resubmit specific elements before certification is awarded, protecting the integrity of the credential and supporting the success of every graduate.

Professional Formation
Practice & Integration
Supervised Teaching
Feedback & Development
Final Recorded Demonstration
Faculty Assessment
Certified Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ Facilitator
Why This Certification Is Different

Not Another Certification. The Formation of a Distinctive Professional Methodology.

Content
Formation
Completion
Competence
Technique
Methodology
  • ✓One integrated six-month experience—not a collection of unrelated courses
  • ✓A methodology rooted in classical mindfulness-awareness practice
  • ✓Interoception, direct sensate experience, and embodied regulation
  • ✓A progressive path from foundational attention toward open awareness and nondual resting in being
  • ✓Personal healing and professional development integrated with facilitation skill
  • ✓Science taught with intellectual honesty and without overclaiming
  • ✓Weekly live Community of Practice and monthly mentoring with Fleet Maull
  • ✓A full twelve-week supervised practicum
  • ✓Recorded teaching demonstrations with detailed, personalized developmental feedback
  • ✓Certification based on demonstrated competence and ethical professional integration
  • ✓A founding community helping shape the culture, language, standards, and future of the NSM field
Everything Included

Your Six-Month Certification Experience

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FORMATION

  • Twelve newly contextualized professional formation modules
  • A new 20–30 minute teaching from Fleet Maull for each week of Phase One
  • A fully integrated certification curriculum drawn from HeartMind’s established NSM body of teaching
  • The progressive 21-Day NSM practice journey
  • Guided practices and structured personal-practice assignments
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PRACTICE & SUPPORT

  • Weekly faculty-led Community of Practice sessions during professional formation
  • Monthly live teaching and mentoring with Fleet Maull
  • Twelve weeks of supervised professional practicum
  • Progressive recorded teaching demonstrations
  • Comprehensive personalized feedback reports
  • Faculty coaching and developmental guidance
  • Peer learning and practice opportunities
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CERTIFICATION

  • The NSM Facilitation Competency Rubric
  • Final certification assessment
  • Certified Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ Facilitator credential upon successful completion
  • Membership in the founding graduate community and a pathway for continued learning

Formation. Practice. Certification — held as one continuous arc.

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How to apply, what to expect, and what it means to be part of the first cohort.

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Founding Cohort

Become part of the founding generation of NSM professionals.

The founding cohort will be more than the first group to complete the certification. It will become the founding generation of Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness professionals—helping shape the culture, language, standards, and future community of this emerging field. Founding participants will enter a program built on a substantial body of established teaching while also contributing thoughtful feedback that helps refine the certification for future cohorts.

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Investment

Founding cohort investment

This is a six-month professional formation and supervised practicum, not a short online course. Tuition rises in two steps as the founding cohort fills — apply earlier to lock in a lower rate.

FOUNDING COHORT PRICING

Payment in Full

Super Early Bird Pay in full by October 24
$2,850 Save $1,400 vs. full price
Early Bird Pay in full by December 31
$3,250 Save $1,000 vs. full price
Full Price After December 31
$4,250

Payment plan · 3 payments

Most flexible
Super Early Bird Make first of 3 monthly payments by October 24
$1,000/mo $3,000 total
Early Bird Make first of 3 monthly payments by December 31
$1,150/mo $3,450 total
Full Price After December 31
$1,500/mo $4,500 total
BOTH PAYMENT OPTIONS INCLUDE
  • Phase One: 12-Week Intensive NSM Course
  • Phase Two: 12-Week Supervised Practicum with recorded feedback
  • Weekly faculty-led Community of Practice
  • Monthly live teaching and mentoring with Fleet Maull
  • Certified Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ Facilitator credential

Applying doesn't charge your card — pricing is confirmed only after acceptance. Deposits and payments are non-refundable once your place is confirmed.

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Application

A Selective Program for Committed Professionals.

Because this is an advanced certification with supervised practice and limited faculty capacity, enrollment will be by application. The application process is intended to create a strong cohort of experienced, committed professionals—not to exclude people through unnecessary gatekeeping.

Review

Confirm eligibility and program fit

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Submit a concise professional application

Foundations

Complete NSM Foundations if needed

Connect

Fit conversation where needed

Enroll

Confirm your place after acceptance

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FAQ

Questions You May Be Asking

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No. This is an advanced professional specialization for people who already have a meaningful mindfulness practice and professional experience working with others. See above Prerequisites to make sure this is right for you.

No. The certification will be presented as one integrated learning experience.

No. The program is relevant to many helping professions. See Prerequisites above. You will be expected to use NSM within your existing qualifications, role, and scope of practice.

The program is designed to prepare you to guide NSM experiences in both individual and group settings, adapted responsibly to your professional context.

The program includes weekly faculty-led Community of Practice sessions, monthly live sessions with Fleet, and supervised practicum activities. Final attendance and make-up policies will be stated before enrollment.

Yes. The practicum includes recorded teaching demonstrations, detailed feedback, opportunities to improve, and a final competency-based certification assessment.

You may be asked to complete additional targeted practice, coaching, or a resubmission. The goal is to support genuine competence while protecting the integrity of the credential.

No. Certification in NSM does not expand your legal or professional scope. You must continue to work within your existing training, license, and ethical responsibilities.

The certification is not a business-building program. However, greater professional differentiation, more deeply felt client experiences, and stronger client engagement can naturally support trust, retention, referrals, and practice growth.

No. It is a meaningful milestone on an ongoing path. The culture of NSM emphasizes lifelong practice, learning, feedback, and professional mastery.

The People You Serve Are Ready for More Than Another Explanation

They are ready to feel more present in their own lives, to discover that their internal state is not fixed, and to move from understanding what is happening to participating in real change. The Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness™ Professional Certification is an invitation to deepen your own embodiment, refine your craft, and learn to facilitate experiences that people can feel—and carry forward into their lives. It is also an invitation to join the founding generation of a new professional field within mindfulness and help define what Neuro-Somatic Mindfulness can become.

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