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Postgraduate study in the School of Psychology

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MINDFULNESS-BASED APPROACHES:

TEACHING 2

This module is suitable for those wishing to build on the core skills developed during the Foundation and Teaching 1 mindfulness-based modules. The module focuses on deepening the skills and understanding necessary to teach mindfulness-based approaches. There is a strong emphasis on students being active in their personal learning process.

Course content

  • Group theory, process and leadership in relation to teaching mindfulness-based approaches.
  • Cultivation of experiential understanding of how to embody the qualities of mindfulness by the course leader, and of the importance of bringing mindfulness to the various elements involved in teaching mindfulness-based approaches:  the leader’s own internal process; the process of the group; challenge and uncertainty; the process of individuals in the group; the course material and the potential choices facing a leader in responding skillfully to all these elements.
  • Developing formulations for particular applications of a mindfulness-based programme, which enable the curriculum and teaching to target the specific problem area of the client group in question. This is a foundational element of MBCT teaching. 
  • Ongoing personal and professional development processes to support the teaching of mindfulness-based approaches.
  • Development of a reflective and inquiring approach to learning which enables each student to be active in identifying personal learning ‘edges’ in their development as a teacher of mindfulness-based approaches, and to engage with peer students in an honest and open reciprocal feedback process on teaching skills as they are practiced within the module. This requires students to invest in their own learning in a particular way and also be committed to support the development and learning of their peer group.

Assessment

There will be both written and practical assignments which cover and integrate the personal and theoretical aspects of the work.

Arrangements for the module

Students are required to have successfully completed ‘Mindfulness-Based Approaches: Teaching 1’.

The module will be taught on five Saturdays and one Friday session adjacent to a Saturday teaching day.

During the year in which the module is taken students are required to:

  • Be engaged in an individual supervision/mentoring process with an experienced teacher of mindfulness-based approaches.
  • Attend a 7-10 day taught residential mindfulness training/retreat.

Please contact the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice for further details and information on these requirements.