7-WEEK DEER PROGRAM: Developing Emotional Embodied Resiliency.

7-WEEK DEER PROGRAM: Developing Emotional Embodied Resiliency.
"Learn to be a creative partner in your life versus a reactive participant."

Mindful-Somatic Embodied Training: The DEER Program is a unique training designed to support participants in developing emotional-body stress resiliency, understanding attachment difficulty, personal boundary awareness, and coming into a richer sense of wholeness.

"Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than with fear, everything shifts." - Bessel van der Kolk.

The DEER Program has been developed by Rik Center through the Mindfulness Care Center as a Mindful-Embodied Experiential & Educational Training towards dissolving emotional and physical overwhelm and unresolved stress anxieties.

Attendees gain the capacity to unwind and begin dissolving long-held stressful and/or traumatic anxieties. Acquire new tools of understanding that offer release from worn-out negative habits and beliefs that hold us back from living a more balanced life.

Orientation: Saturday, October 11th, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm, PST.
Registration Required:
The 7-Week Program is on Wednesday Evenings: January 11th through February 25th, 2026, 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, PST.

Course Investment Fee $495: Includes Mindfulness Care Center Workbook download and two meditations to practice with. Please purchase of Rik's Book, “If You Can’t Change Your Mood, Change Your Mind” which you will be utilizing during the program. You can purchase online, CLICK HERE:…

** If we do Zoom, Rik will send the Zoom link to participants who have registered and paid the day before the program begins.
Participants are asked to keep their video cameras on during the class as we are all working together and supporting one another. Each class builds on one another and benefits the participant.

We incorporate into the program an understanding of “The Seven Aspects Of Human Experience” which creates a new healing paradigm back into resilience. The 7-classes build on themselves with a theme for each class that helps people move through the energy of fear. This training addresses compassionate self-care, boundaries, and effective communication.

Program training includes:
• Experiential exercises
• Didactic teachings
• Guided meditations
• Group discussions

     1. Gain new tools that support the release of dysfunctional physical/emotional anxieties that often overtake our lives.
     2. Obtains new skills in how to dissolve stress.
     3. Learn how to set down unwanted beliefs that keep us wrapped up in a daily life of stress.
     4. Build in a mindful-somatic approach that offers more kindness and compassion towards ourselves and how to discharge long-held anxieties.

Our lives are a string of experiences that arise from "little incidents" to "large painful unresolved experiences" that often continue to produce stress responses that no longer serve us in our present day-to-day life. Mindfulness is the doorway to working with a body and mind that has feelings and sensations that many people spend their life avoiding.

Facilitated by Rik Center, Co-founder of the Mindfulness Care Center. Rik is a SEP/Somatic Experiencing Stress and Trauma Counselor/Practitioner, Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, and has served as a Buddhist/Interfaith Chaplain at San Francisco General Hospital and CPMC/Sutter Health Hospitals. He’s a member of the USABP/United States Association Of Body Psychotherapy. Rik has a private practice working one-on-one with his clients that focuses on healing high levels of unresolved traumatic anxiety and PTSD along with offering grief and spiritual counseling. Rik began a meditation practice in the late 80s and leads a weekly Sunday Morning and Tuesday Evening Meditation Class, plus a Grief & Loss Support Group.

The Mindfulness Care Center was recognized by San Francisco Magazine and Voted The Best Of 2018 in "Mindfulness and Meditation."The Mindfulness Care Center is a 501(3)(c) charitable organization.

TESTIMONIAL:
I could not recommend this program enough - it helped me deal with life’s challenges, helped me improve my relationships with my immediate family. I learned to verbalize my emotions (that was a biggie!), got control over my social anxieties, and even flying (the turbulence used to freak me out!). It changed my relationship with time (I used to always hurry and always be late). I am convinced this program is the best thing I’ve ever done for my well-being and an investment that will be bringing returns throughout my lifetime.
Thank you, Rik!!
~Elena P.

TESTIMONIAL:
Thank you, Rik, for doing this work. I really cannot thank you enough for guiding me toward a deeper belief in love, and my place in the world.
I never thought I could treat and understand my depression without depending heavily on traditional therapy and drugs. However, I made the decision to leave those treatments and seek a more holistic understanding of my dis-ease with meditation, somatic experiencing, and acupuncture, and in so doing, I believe I have reached a new phase of healing.
Rik’s “Mindful Somatic” class was a key part of this change and I will be forever grateful. In the six months since taking the class and working with Rik, I have gone from seeing my depression as a life sentence, to seeing it now as a coping mechanism that I learned as a young child in difficult circumstances. I now bring compassion and kindness to my difficulty regulating my mood and believe that if I was smart enough to learn to cope as a young child, I’m smart enough now as an adult to see whether or not those behaviors are continuing to serve my present life. I also see how my body desires to heal itself, if only I give it the time to speak and be heard rather than move to shut it down as soon as I feel difficult emotions.
~ Miriam