Rooted in Relationship – March 7

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Rooted in Relationship is an 8-month facilitator training for mindfulness leaders, educators, mental health professionals, and other youth-serving professionals who want to deepen their capacity to hold relational, earth-centered space with adolescents and young adults. Expect to spend about 8 hours a month across independent work, monthly immersions, small group sessions, and peer connections. Participants must commit to attending all of these, plus the in-person retreat, and have reliable computer and internet access.

Please review the program details section of rootedinrelationship.org (who is this for dropdown) to view application criteria for the program. We hold flexibility within the application criteria. If you don't meet every listed criteria but feel called to this work, we invite you to apply.

Inward Bound and its partners will keep confidential all information provided in this application except as required for selection and participation in the training course or as otherwise required by law.

Questions? rooted@inwardwardboundmind.org | (508) 250-0628

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A note about identity: Inward Bound and its partners recognize that our lived experiences are impacted by our different identities. Not only do we aim to co-create environments where all people are welcome and various identities represented, we acknowledge that there is work to do to create truly equitable spaces that support the diversity of our community. With this in mind, we invite you to share with us ways that you identify in terms of race, ethnicity, physical ability, sexual orientation, age, gender, class, and any other ways you celebrate your unique identity.

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Please explain your mindfulness meditation practice: For example: How many years have you been consistently practicing? How many days a week do you practice and for what duration? What does your daily practice consist of? Please be as specific as possible.

Please describe your experience working with adolescents and young adults—both professional and volunteer—including any experience teaching or facilitating groups in a mindfulness or meditation context.

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Please list your mindfulness meditation retreat experience:

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Please list any mindfulness meditation training, mentorship, and/or certifications you have received?

Prior experience with Inward Bound Mindfulness and Dharma Homies: If applicable, explain how you have been involved with Inward Bound and/or Dharma Homies in the past. If you have staffed Inward Bound retreats, please list date, location, and teachers of retreat(s).

Motivation and Aspirations

What inspires you to apply to the Rooted in Relationship Facilitator Training at this time in your life, and why do you wish to further or initiate your work with adolescents and young adults?

How has mindfulness influenced your life? Please provide specific examples about the ways mindfulness has helped you both personally and professionally.

What is your current relationship to the natural world, and how (if at all) does it inform your work with young people?

How do you hope to apply the experience and training gained through the program in your professional or vocational work?

What is your experience—lived and/or learned—working with power, privilege, and diversity in community? If you identify as white, what practices, trainings, readings, etc. have you participated in to support your awareness of and unpacking of racism?

Is there anything else you would like us to know about you, your mindfulness practice, or your motivation to apply for this program?

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Letter of Recommendation

We require at least one letter of recommendation to complete your application, preferably from someone who is familiar with your facilitation/teaching/mentoring work. Upon submission of this form you will receive a confirmation email containing instructions to upload your letter(s) of recommendation.

Letter(s) of recommendation must be uploaded within five days of your application submission, and no later than December 15th if you are applying for the early bird application deadline.

I understand that a letter of recommendation is required to complete my application and will submit it within five days of this application being submitted.

Program Investment

Tuition is available on a tiered sliding scale—Sustainer, Partner, Steward—grounded in the values of dana (generosity), reciprocity, and shared investment. Additional scholarships are available and can be requested below. An early bird discount of $500 is available to anyone who submits their application by December 15, 2026.

Tier	Tuition	Early Bird
Sustainer	$3,750	$3,250
Choose this tier if you require financial assistance to participate in the program.
Partner	$4,750	$4,250
Choose this tier if you can cover the full cost of your participation in the program, including the cost of the in-person retreat.
Steward	$5,500	$5,000
Choose this tier if you have the means. This tier contributes to our scholarship fund, directly supporting other program participants.

Choose the tier that best reflects your financial circumstances, not the one you feel you should choose—all tiers include the same full access to the training. For context: the residential retreat is valued at $1,500 and the training includes 72 hours of instruction over eight months. Additional scholarships can be requested through the application process. A minimum 25% of tuition of the selected tier must be paid by March 1, 2027. Automatic payments plans available. Tuition must be paid in full by July 1, 2027.

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Scholarships

Our scholarship fund is limited. Scholarship funds will be prioritized based on the recognition of historically marginalized communities and those who have not been widely represented in the western mindfulness field. We aim to support growing diversity in mindfulness facilitation and to increase accessibility for those from low-income communities. To enable us to distribute scholarship funds as widely as possible, we ask that you pay as much of the tuition as you are able, and to consider other forms of financial support that may be available to you (e.g., organizational or institutional support). All scholarship requests received by December 15, 2026 will be considered as part of the early bird deadline. We are unable to offer any full scholarships at this time.

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Please explain the reason for your scholarship request along with any extenuating circumstances that may make it difficult to pay full tuition at the Sustainer level.

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Application fee: $50

Please pay the $50 application fee below.

The non-refundable application fee will go towards the program fee if applicant is accepted.

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If you cancel by February 1, 2027, any payments made will be refunded, minus the $50 nonrefundable application fee.

Partial payments are not eligible for refund after February 1, 2027, any scheduled payments under a payment plan will be canceled.

Up until the start of the program, March 7, 2027, payments made in full will be granted a 50% refund, minus the $50 application fee.

We cannot offer refunds for cancellations made after the program begins on March 7, 2027, because of our commitments to instructors, the retreat center, and the cohort structure. Any remaining balance owed under a payment plan is waived upon withdrawal after this date, but no refund will be issued for payments already made.

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