This branch training is open to mindfulness teachers who have already been fully trained to teach 8-week courses via a 12 month teacher training programme.
It will be led by Liz Lord and Andy Phee who were trained and supervised by Mark Williams.
It is a pre-requisite of joining this training that you have taken part as a participant in the 8 week Deeper Mindfulness course itself before learning to teach it. You can sign up for an 8-week Deeper Mindfulness course here: https://oxfordmindfulness.org/courses/personal-learning
Our trainers will offer a 10-hour programme delivered over 6 sessions of teachings and practices that give new insights based on the recently developed Feeling Tone programme described in Deeper Mindfulness. The 8-week course you will be trained to teach is designed as a follow-on for participants who are familiar with mindfulness practice through having done a course of MBSR, MBCT or related programmes/retreats.
Buddhist traditions see feeling tone (vedana) as a fundamental element of every moment of experience and a foundational aspect of mindfulness and its practice. Feeling tone is implicit throughout any MBSR or MBCT programme, and this course makes it explicit. Learning specific practices to help us become aware of feeling tone allows us to move in close and see clearly the very instant where we are at risk of becoming caught up in pursuing or rejecting something and are likely to become entangled in emotional distress. The programme provides an opportunity to see how the awareness of feeling tone reveals and then unlocks the habits of conditioning that would usually keep us trapped.
Training takes place on Tuesdays, UK Time:
September 16th 13:00 -15:00 longer session
September 23rd and 30th, October 7th and 14th 13:00 -14:30
October 21st 13:00 -15:00 longer session