Professional Consultations

Consultations for Providers, Mindfulness and Meditation Teachers and Organizations

  • Individual mentoring of meditation teachers

    • Creating a safety plan (including informed consent, screening, monitoring, management)

    • Risk assessment and mitigation

    • Trauma-informed mindfulness modifications

  • Curriculum and materials review

    • Is my mindfulness program sufficiently secular?

    • Is my program evidence-based? Are my claims and advertisements accurate?

Research Safety Plan Consultation

Services include consultation about best practices for safety monitoring in the context of meditation-related clinical trials and research studies. The scope of services will be determined at the initial consultation, but may include assistance with:

  • informed consent,

  • screening and risk assessment

  • monitoring and measurement of adverse events;

  • trauma-informed modifications, instructor education/training;

  • clinical management/referrals;

  • NIH Data Safety Monitoring Board Plan that is consistent with CONSORT Harms criteria, approved by OCRA and Westat

  • assistance with analysis, report/manuscript writing or CONSORT consistent reporting of adverse event data.

Fees for Professional and Research Consultations:

Professional and Research Consultations are $100-150/hr. Additional scope of work and future payments will be determined in the initial consultation, if needed.

Fees can be paid by credit card via Paypal or Venmo at the time of scheduling.

For payments that require institutional contracts and/or federal grant (NIH, NSF) funding, please contact Drs. Britton or Lindahl directly.