Informal Teacher Training Pathway

Intention: To learn and understand how to deliver Mindfulness Based Approaches with integrity and authenticity.

Venue : By arrangement, dependant on group or one to one

Commencing: After the next 8 week MBSR evening course September 10th 2024. You will need to have completed any of the 8 week MBSR or MBCT courses prior to embarking on the Teacher Training Pathway

Duration: Initially, 8 weeks reflection on MBSR curriculum plus Retreat Day and 6 further modules of training including domain training and supervision.

Note: Commitment to regular, ongoing Home Practice and Self Directed Learning between sessions is essential.

Total Cost for training pathway £795.00 includes Certification on Completion

The Pathways of Mindfulness Teacher Training

Gloucestershire Mindfulness offer the Informal Training Route, supported by Continuous Professional Development training and apprenticeship teaching with supervision.

‘I want to teach Mindfulness.’

Imagine giving the gift of Mindfulness to other like-minded individuals on their journey to presence.

Qualified Mindfulness teachers are in high demand. Gloucestershire Mindfulness is proud to support a network of individuals who wish to create a more mindful community.

Please refer to the teacher training pathway diagram to see the various, exciting routes you can take to become a Mindfulness Teacher. Gloucestershire Mindfulness Training offers you the third pathway on the accompanying chart. You may wish to incorporate Mindful Approaches in your current work, including personal practice, skills, ethics, origins, curriculums, groupwork, safeguarding and trauma-sensitive work, to enable you to deliver Mindfulness safely and with integrity. Each of these areas is offered as separate training modules and requires Home Practice and self-directed training, which will be supervised.

The Structure of the Teaching Assessment Criteria The 6 domains of competence within the MBI-TAC:

Domain 1: Coverage, pacing and organisation of session curriculum

Domain 2: Relational Skills

Domain 3: Embodying Mindfulness

Domain 4: Guiding Mindfulness Practices

Domain 5: Conveying course themes through interactive inquiry and didactic teaching

Domain 6: Holding of group-working environment

Recognising that completing the 8-week MBSR course alone does not give an individual teacher status is important.

However, we offer the 8-week MBSR as a prerequisite for the ongoing teacher training pathway and can support you with quality recommendations for your ongoing journey. the next 8 week programme is September 2024 see Courses session Mindfulness Based Stressed Reduction — Gloucestershire Mindfulness

Train to Teach Mindfulness.

How do I become a qualified Mindfulness teacher?

Every qualified Mindfulness Teacher will be required to demonstrate compliance with the BAMBA Good Practice Guidelines.

You will need to provide evidence of training completion (see training pathways above), compliance with the GPG’s, a supporting statement from your supervisor and obtain the relevant insurance.

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1. Professional qualification in clinical practice, education or social context or equivalent life experience.

2. Knowledge of the populations that the mindfulness-based approach will be delivered to, including experience of teaching, therapeutic or other care provision with groups and individuals.

3. A) Professional mental health training that includes the use of evidenced based therapeutic approaches (if delivering MBCT).

3. B) Foundational training
B1. Familiarity through personal participation with the mindfulness-based course curriculum that you will be learning to teach.
B2. In-depth personal experience with daily mindfulness meditation practice, which includes the three core practices of mindfulness-based programmes – body scan, sitting meditation and mindful movement (plus any other core practice that is a necessary part of the programme being taught e.g. the Kindly Awareness practice in the Breathworks programme).

3. C) Mindfulness-based teacher training
C1. Completion of an in-depth, rigorous mindfulness-based teacher training programme or supervised pathway over a minimum duration of 12 months.
C2. Development of awareness of the ethical framework within which you are working.
C3. Development of awareness and recognition of the limitations and boundaries of your training and experience.
C4. Engagement in a regular supervision process with an experienced mindfulness-based teacher(s) which includes:
a). Opportunity to reflect on/inquire into personal process in relation to personal mindfulness practice and mindfulness-based teaching practice.
b) /inquire into personal process in relation to personal mindfulness practice and mindfulness-based teaching practice. Receiving periodic feedback on teaching from an experienced mindfulness-based teacher through video recordings, supervisor sitting in on teaching sessions or co-teaching and building in feedback sessions.
C5. Participation in a residential teacher-led mindfulness meditation retreat.

D). Ongoing good practice requirements
D1. Ongoing commitment to a personal mindfulness practice through daily formal and informal practice and attendance on retreat. D2. Ensuring that ongoing contacts with mindfulness-based colleagues are built and maintained as a means to share experiences and learn collaboratively.
D3. Ongoing and regular process of supervision by an experienced teacher(s) of mindfulness-based approaches which includes the areas cited in C4 above.

4. Ongoing commitment to reflective practice supported by for example, viewing recordings of own teaching sessions, connections with mindfulness teacher(s) and regular reading of books from the field of mindfulness.

5. Engaging in further training to develop skills and understanding in delivering mindfulness-based approaches.

6. A commitment to keeping up to date with the current evidence base for mindfulness-based approaches.

7. Ongoing adherence to the appropriate ethical framework of your background.