Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy : Teacher Development - Part 2

Training Dates: 11-15 Sept 2013
An intensive experiential 5 day training workshop offering space for nourishment, inspiration, exploration and learning
Fee: £680 (£620 if paid 2 calendar months prior to start of the course)
Location: 11mins form London Bridge.
Accommodation available at the same venue for £30/night (Only 3 rooms)

Who can attend?

This further teaching development process is intended for professionals who have:

1. Previously attended a mindfulness-based Teacher Training Part 1. Click here for details of mindfulness-based Teacher Training Part 1 Programme.
2. Experience of teaching at least three 8-week mindfulness-based programmes (or equivalent).
3. Have participated in guided silent retreats
   

How will we learn?

We hope to offer an environment in which participants can engage in a deepening exploration of their own experience of being human, of investigating the way they hold this and of mindfulness as a way of being in the world. The interface of all of this with the experience of teaching mindfulness-based approaches will underpin the process of the course. There will be a focus on refining and further developing our teaching skills in relation to particularities (such as use of language, group facilitation skills and programme development) and developing and embodying a spacious open awareness and exploring the deeper intentions that move us to do this work. We practice in small and larger groups and learn through our individual and collective experience. Participants will have opportunities to lead practices and investigate personal and co-participant’s experiences of these. Detailed instructor and peer feedback will be offered to support the learning.

Training for Mindfulness-Based Teachers:

This programme is designed to respond to the growing need for practicing mindfulness-based teachers to take their development and learning process deeper. Participants on this programme will have previously participated in a mindfulness-based Teacher Development Retreat or equivalent and will have current experience of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and/or Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy.

Participants will therefore have moved beyond the first explorations of the form and shape of mindfulness-based programmes and curricula, and will developmentally be at the point of exploring ways to

• Refine existing skills
• Further develop understanding of the teaching and its underpinning themes drawn from the different worlds of science and dharma
• Inquire into the ‘person of the teacher’ – the way in which each of us relates to ourselves, the individuals, the group and the teaching process itself.

The teaching team and the participant group will therefore be engaged in a process which offers the potential for a rich collective and individual development process.

A key overall intention is to support participants in developing the ability and confidence to teach from the immediacy of their own experience. This tends to grow out of a depth of experience of the practice, the teaching process and the form of the programme. Developmentally, many teachers experience that their confidence of knowing what is needed, develops to the point that they can let go of holding the teaching in a certain way and relate to the process from a wider, more spacious and spontaneous place.

The programme will offer an integration of interactive training and development processes within the context of periods of silent formal and informal meditation practice.

The intention is to facilitate learning within the following areas through these processes:

• Cultivating the ability to embody mindfulness
• Developing awareness of relational process between teacher and participants
• Strengthening teaching skills
• Developing awareness and confidence to appropriately support participants to turn towards difficulty
• Enhancing group process skills as they relate to mindfulness-based teaching
• Developing awareness of the ethical processes in action during mindfulness-based teaching

Other information:

Participants must commit to the entire training.

Please note that we give a certificate of attendance which details the nature of the course and the hours involved. This does not though constitute an authorisation to teach mindfulness-based approaches. The development and interest in the potential of mindfulness within a range of settings is rapidly growing and training processes are therefore becoming more structured. However, within the UK there are currently no formal qualifications/certification processes which regulate competency in teaching mindfulness-based approaches. This requires those of us working in this developing field to inquire deeply into our own practice, our integrity, our intentions and the boundaries of our skills, competencies and understandings.

(The course structure and definition has been adopted from Bangor- Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice)

Dr. Patrizia C. Collard PhD, BABCP accredited, UKCP reg., MISMA, MAC

Patrizia is an experienced MBCT and MBSR trainer and is a Senior Lecturer for Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (University of East London). Patrizia was also resident in Hong Kong and China for 9 years where she studied Taoism, Buddhism, Energy work, Meditation and Yoga. Patrizia also has research interests in Autism and Mindfulness.