Mimentra

Mimentra mindfulness training is designed to address specific needs for first responders and medical professional who experience atypical stresses in their professional life. Combining practices of movement and stillness, Mimentra offers a wide range of practices to support first responders and their families.

Mimentra recognizes the challenge of first responders closing their eyes during practices, and offers a visual and audio guided body awareness practice, along with reflective questions to help bridge mind-body awareness.

Adapted from evidence informed mindfulness programs, Mimentra offers 12 specific modules along with resources relevant to first responders ranging from stabilizing awareness, compassion focused practices, and exploring difficulty to improve resilience to stress. Topics include:

• Waking up from Automatic Pilot
• Rebooting Your Brain: Resilient vs. Survival Brain
• Emotional Intelligence: Space to Breathe
• Tuning in to Your System: Befriending the Body
• The Body as an Ally: Gathering the Scattered Mind
• Taking in Pleasant Experiences: It’s Good to Be Home
• Dealing with Aversion without Running Away
• Newsflash! Thoughts Are Not Facts!
• Untangling Yourself from Jungle Mind
• R-R-R-Rewiring Your Brain
• Fierce Compassion: Warrior Heart
• Living a Life of Value: Committed Action

Other features include the following:
• Full offline access.
• Ensuring privacy with the ability to clear your progress and with no personal login.
• Easy to access situational practices which include difficulty falling back asleep, grounding before or after a shift, and addressing stress reactivity.
• Content and practices designed by Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy facilitators.
• Based on the research from Dr. Rachael Crowder in studying the effects of mindfulness based interventions for helping professionals in reducing burnout and compassion fatigue.
• Chatbot interface to provide on-going feedback and suggestions based on user experience.

Track your progress with:
• Reflection Report: Inquiry based learning in recognizing how you respond to experiences based on mindfulness practices. Where is your attention during the practice, to your thoughts or to your body? How are you relating to your thoughts, through aversion, attachment, or understanding?
• Practice Report: Visual body awareness and reflective questions to determine patterns of habit.
• Identify your “go-to” practices, whether it’s body awareness, mindful movement, or stillness practices.