Online - Branch Training: MBSR to Mindfulness for Life (MBCT-L) - 6 days - 09:00am - 17:00pm UK Time - Oxford Mindfulness Foundation

Online - Branch Training: MBSR to Mindfulness for Life (MBCT-L) - 6 days - 09:00am - 17:00pm UK Time
Date: 10/10/2024 - 21/11/2024
Location: Online

This 6-day workshop is for trained teachers of MBSR who would like to learn to teach the Mindfulness for Life (MBCT-L) curriculum.

Mindfulness for Life is a development of MBCT for the general population. It includes 8 weekly sessions, home practice, and an all-day session and teaches skills both for working with painful and difficult experience and for increasing wellbeing and flourishing.

This teacher training includes theoretical and empirical foundations for Mindfulness for Life, the structure and sequence of the curriculum, and learning to teach key practices and exercises, including cognitive-behavioural exercises, appreciation and befriending practices, and a sitting with difficulty practice. We also include discussion of how breathing spaces are used and how inquiry is conducted in Mindfulness for Life.

We assume that all participants are experienced teachers of the practices that are part of both Mindfulness for Life and MBSR (raisin practice, body scan, sitting practices, mindful movement) and do not provide training in these. Training in the basic 3-step breathing space is included for those without previous training in this practice and is optional for those who already include breathing spaces in their teaching. Full curriculum materials and handouts for teaching Mindfulness for Life will be provided.

Bangor University students are eligible for the 6-day MBSR to MBCTL training if:

-they have completed the module "Teaching 1" of the Masters programme

-they meet all the other eligibility criteria

Applicants must be willing to commit to continuing professional development and adherence to OMF’s Ethical Guidelines for MBCT Teachers.

Where we have, or expect to have, more applications than spaces, applications will be prioritised from those who have access to a population and setting where they are actively involved and will be able to introduce MBCT. Specifically we will prioritise applications where there is the potential to engage with marginalised or underrepresented communities and where we might be able to support the implementation of MBCT into non-English speaking communities through training bi-lingual teachers.

Please note that the OMF Mindfulness programmes are intended for adults over 18 years of age and are not suitable for younger populations.

The OMF provides Confirmation of Attendance letters to all participants who attend the whole training.

Training will take place: Thursdays October 10th, 17th and 24th (one week break - no training on 31st), then November 7th, 14th and 21st.

IMPORTANT Please be aware that here in the UK we move from BST to GMT on 26th October 2024, which will mean an hour’s change part-way through training for participants in some time zones. The course will continue to be delivered at 0900 – 1700, UK Time. Here’s a useful site to check how the timing corresponds in your time zone: https://dateful.com/time-zone-converter

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Standard Rate - pays facilitator and OMF costs: £960.00

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For the purpose of this course, we would like to understand the level and knowledge of your prior experiences of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Please provide your answers to the following questions:

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Which population(s) and in which context(s) do you plan to teach this? For example, workplace, education, criminal justice, physical or mental healthcare or general population.

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In addition to your teacher training, you must have been assessed as safe to teach under supervision by your training provider / and or be registered as a mindfulness teacher on eg BAMBA https://bamba.org.uk/directory/ or other equivalent directory. Please indicate which you will provide here and provide evidence to support this (e.g. email us with a trained teacher certificate or confirmation from your training provider, or provide a link here to the directory displaying your name and training) Email: admin@oxfordmindfulness.org

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