Each class will be recorded for your viewing later. There is no requirement to show up live for any of the classes. In fact, you will have until November 30, 2022 to complete all the videos and homework assignments to receive the 14 CEU’s. All videos are uploaded to Utah State University’s Canvas system where you will have access to watch the recordings after they take place live.

This training is to help you learn and use self-care strategies that you will actually use. So the homework will be implementing the skills into your daily life in a way that actually saves you time and gives you more energy. So if you are already overwhelmed and wondering how you can fit more into your life, then this training is a must for you!

Once you complete all the video trainings and submit your homework on the Canvas system through Utah State University you will be asked to complete a short survey and a certificate will be issued electronically with your  approved CEU’s.

You will need to complete all of the videos and homework to get all to the CEU’s. You will not be able to earn partial credit for the course by completing just some of the videos and assignments.

• The Blocks, together with a group of clinicians and researchers, developed the evidence-based therapeutic modality of Mind-Body Bridging through their work with individuals and groups suffering from addiction, violence, trauma, PTSD, cancer, pain, and other health and mental health disorders, and discovered effective and easy to use techniques which incorporate current neuroscience research to address and assist symptomatic populations in need.

Mind-Body Bridging is transdiagnostic, alleviating psychological distress for individuals with a broad range of mental health issues, and increasing psychological flexibility and resilience.

Health and mental health clinicians can become certified to use the I-System Model and Mind-Body Bridging, through education and training, with individuals and groups in clinical settings.

• USU offers three live, online courses (Foundation, Intermediate, and Advanced) to both USU enrolled graduate students and to non-enrolled masters level students to help them learn and master the I-System Model and Mind-Body Bridging®. All courses are 3 Credit hours or 4.5 Continuing Education Hours. Classes are synchronous, held once a week for three hours for 14 consecutive weeks, and the day and time is determined together with those enrolled.

The I-System is a biopsychological mechanism and is a common factor in a wide range of psychopathology. The I-System creates unrealistic identity-grasping (the belief that there is a single independent identity, referred to as one’s self, which is not changing and not dependent on anything else), consisting of self-centered expectations (rules of how self, others and the world should be), that impairs mind-body wellbeing and functioning. The I-System Model is the bases of Mind-Body Bridging® (MBB®), an evidence-based transdiagnostic intervention that alleviates psychological distress for individuals with a broad range of mental health issues, and increases psychological flexibility and resilience. The aim of MBB is simply to reduce the activity of the I-System so that our innate adaptive skills can flourish. The focus of MBB is to teach clients how to adopt a metacognitive perspective of the biopsychological mechanism (I-System) that causes dysfunctional behavior. 

Students who are licensed clinicians and who successfully complete all three I-System Model and Mind-Body Bridging® courses will become Certified MBB® Therapists.