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Mindful Awareness Training

The trained capacity to be here, before reaction.

$720Standard. No inaugural rate is promised in advance. Any inaugural rate for a first cohort is announced together with its dates. $450 refresher from the second cohort.

Apply for the Cohort

Applications are read personally, in the order they arrive, with a reply within forty-eight hours on weekdays.

Investment

$720Standard. No inaugural rate is promised in advance. Any inaugural rate for a first cohort is announced together with its dates. $450 refresher from the second cohort.

Access

Everything opens inside The Practice. Nothing is downloaded. You hold full access to the live sessions, the recordings, and every material during the cohort and for ninety days after it closes. At the end of that window the access ends and the material is no longer available. You can return the following year at the refresher rate.

Format

One live weekend · 8 modules · 12 seats

Dates

Dates announced to the Mastery Circle

The description

Most mindfulness apps teach a thinned version of a deep practice. The result is calm without precision and presence without anchoring. This weekend owns trained presence at mastery depth: the Four Foundations of Awareness, taught not as comparative religion but as a clinical framework for what attention is actually doing.

By the close, you are no longer trying to be present. You have a working definition of presence as four distinct trainable foundations and you can locate yourself in any of them within fifteen seconds. The outward marker is that you pause before speaking in a charged moment. The inner marker is that you can hear yourself think.

How it is delivered

A live weekend, taught by Dr. Mayssam, delivered online and accessible globally. Friday evening through Sunday late afternoon. Twelve seats. Entry is by application. The training is complete on the weekend; there is no follow-up call. Every session is recorded, and you hold the recordings and every material for ninety days after the weekend, so a different time zone is not a barrier to taking a seat.

What it covers

  • M1 The Architecture of Attention. Attention as habit versus attention as trainable capacity.
  • M2 First Foundation, The Body. Somatic grounding as the entry point.
  • M3 Second Foundation, Feelings. Naming what you feel without being absorbed by it.
  • M4 Third Foundation, Mental States. Watching the mind rather than being in it.
  • M5 Fourth Foundation, Laws of Nature. Perceptual stability under change.
  • M6 The Heart Practices. Gratitude, loving-kindness, compassion, perspective-taking, as developed capacities and not affirmations.
  • M7 The Trigger Framework and the Inner Critic. Meeting the critic and disarming it without suppression.
  • M8 Window of Tolerance and the Thirty-Day Architecture. Your own window mapped, with the early signals that you are leaving it.

What it does not cover

  • Brainwave states and altered states of consciousness. That material moved into Focused Flow when Mind Anchoring retired.
  • Emotional regulation under load and the architecture beneath communication. That lives in Emotional Evolution Training.
  • Flow induction and attentional precision under performance pressure. That lives in Focused Flow Training.
  • Subtle-energy practice. That lives in the Energy and Spiritual journeys.

What is included

  • One live weekend with Dr. Mayssam, one of twelve seats.
  • The Four Foundations trained end to end, each with its own teaching block, practice, and integration prompt.
  • The Trigger Framework, the Inner Critic protocol, and Window of Tolerance training as applied tools.
  • A thirty-day practice architecture calibrated to your constitution.
  • A small circle of accountability formed inside the cohort.
  • The full student course-materials library and home-practice set.
  • The Peak Performance supplement guide, included at no cost.
  • Every session recorded. You hold the recordings and every material for ninety days after the weekend.

What is not included

  • Mid-week calls or daily tasks between weekends. The rhythm is deliberate.
  • 1:1 time with Dr. Mayssam.
  • Therapy or clinical treatment. This is training.
  • Refunds. Live training carries immediate access to materials. Exceptional circumstances are handled case by case.

This is for you if

  • You have read the meditation books, downloaded the apps, and arrived at a quiet suspicion that something is still missing.
  • Your work demands clean perception and your attention has been parcelled out to forty browser tabs and an inbox that refills itself overnight.
  • You can recite the right responses and still watch yourself react in the kitchen at six in the evening.
  • You want presence as a developed skill, not a mood. No prior meditation experience is required.

This is not for you if

  • You want comfort rather than a trained capacity.
  • You are not willing to sit with your own mind and call what you find by its accurate name.
  • You want an app, a streak, and a badge. This is training, and it asks for thirty days of practice after the weekend.

The application

Apply for Mindful Awareness Training

Dates are announced in the Mastery Circle. Applications are read personally, in the order they arrive, with a reply within forty-eight hours on weekdays. Nothing is payable now.

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Questions before you apply

I became much more aware of the moment my mind began creating unnecessary tension. Instead of following every thought, I learned to return to what was actually happening. That shift made me calmer in meetings, clearer in relationships, and far less mentally exhausted.

Elena V. · Architect · Milan

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Clinical note

Dr. Mayssam Mounir is a licensed physician working internationally as a holistic educator and consultant. The content above is educational and reflective. It is not medical, mental health, financial, legal, or relationship advice, and it is not a substitute for the care of a licensed professional in your country of residence. Under the principle Your Sovereignty, Your Choice, any choice you make in your own life as a result is your own, taken at your own risk. Read the full Practice Disclaimer and Informed Consent at drmayssam.com/disclaimer.

Nothing here is diagnostic. Any symptom, whether new, persistent, sudden, severe, or simply unexplained, is taken to your own physician first. This work sits alongside your medical care and never in place of it.

If you are in crisis, contact your local emergency services immediately, in your own country of residence. I am not a crisis service, I am not equipped to respond in an emergency, and I am not a directory of local crisis resources. Locating your country's emergency numbers and crisis lines, in advance, is your own responsibility.

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