MMFT uniquely blends mindfulness skills training with stress resilience skills training and concrete applications for the operational environment.  Unlike other mindfulness-based courses which aspire to reduce stress, MMFT’s aim extends to promoting stress resilience and maintaining peak functioning in challenging environments.  Because MMFT participants operate in high-stress organizational contexts, they need skills training combined with information to make those skills accessible and useful. Therefore, in addition to teaching mindfulness skills, MMFT provides skills and information for understanding and regulating the effects of prolonged or extreme stress on the body and mind.  These two components are complementary:  Mindfulness skills provide the foundational tools which support self-regulation and resilience to stress.  Concrete applications and information about stress activation provide the context for applying mindfulness skills.  This unique blend of skills training and information helps practitioners learn how to be aware, what they need to be aware of, and why they need to be aware .

There are four additional characteristics of MMFT that set it apart from other resilience training.

1. Its curriculum is grounded in neuroscience and stress research and continues to be refined through on-going empirical validation.
2. MMFT was designed to be taught in an organizational setting, to existing groups and teams
3. The training can complement an organization’s existing stress inoculation training.
4. MMFT exercises can be practiced anywhere, and they offer benefits that are easily applied to other contexts.