Mentalizing Initiative

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“The mentalizing initiative mi provides mental health clinicians with training in mentalizing based therapy mbt and other evidence - based therapies for borderline personality disorder bpd and related disorders to effectively treat seriously underserved populations whose suffering lies in their difficult relationships with self and others.”

“The mentalizing initiative mi made great strides in 2023, by strengthening its infrastructure and achieving its mission in training more clinicians in mentalization based therapy mbt. In the realm of trainings, we returned to live, in-person, trainings last october holding a brand new, one-day training in mbt- groups, followed by a three-day basic training and a subsequent two-day practitioner level advanced training. In total 85 clinicians attended, 35 attending for the first time, 50 returning for advanced level trainings. Preceding these trainings, we provided four, requisite, introductory workshops for participants- these were four-hour sessions, offered virtually which provided the necessary background to attend the formal trainings. Trainees were provided continuing education credits for all trainings and their evaluations rated the trainings highly in terms of both quality of training and usefulness clinically. Some of these recent trainees have gone on to pursue supervision with us and supervision of those having attending trainings in the past are ongoing - currently we are providing six groups of biweekly virtual supervision. Other educational efforts included partnering with silver hill hospital new canaan. Ct to deliver a six-week webinar on attachment theory and introductory mbt. These were attended by 150 mental health professionals from all over the country and were so enthusiastically received that we are in the currently planning a repeat and sequel. Robin kissell, director of the mi, continued partnering with the echo clinical communications project out of the university of new mexico in her personal capacity, presenting a series of webinars on mentalization and relatedly epistemic trust as part of the larger ongoing project that focuses on issues of improving communication between patients and clinicians. The international reach of echo programs has inspired us to formally partner with echo and we are soon scheduled to train with them in their delivery practices. Our annual retreat was held in march and from that a renewed and aggressive strategic planning effort emerged.”

“Explanation for not reporting business income the mentalizing inititatives exempt purpose it to provide mental health clinicians with training in mentalizing based therapy mbt and evidence-based therapies for boderline personality disorder and realted disorders. Program service revenue shown on part i, line 2 represents fees received for providing two mbt trainings during the year. Such amounts furthers the organizations exempt purpose.”