Postgraduate Taught Courses
We have trained hundreds of MBSR and MBCT teachers with our established and experienced team of mindfulness teacher trainers. We now offer a 3 year Mindfulness-Based Approaches Masters, which is eligible for a postgraduate loan.
Doing the Master's Degree in Mindfulness Based Approaches has probably been the most enjoyable educational experience of my life.
- We have highly experienced mindfulness trainers (some with 30+ years of experience) who provide excellent, high quality training
- We provide full teacher training to deliver a mindfulness course, no matter whether you are a beginner or have some years experience
- You gain a solid understanding the theoretical underpinnings of Mindfulness-based interventions
- Small classes with excellent staff: student ratios
- Emphasis on the integrity of mindfulness practice
- You can gain the highest mindfulness teaching qualification in the UK
- An opportunity to deeply explore your own mindfulness practice whilst training to teach
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Courses
8-week MBSR courses
If you want to explore mindfulness for yourself, the 8 week course is a great starting point. Due to changes within Bangor University, CMRP are no longer providing Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses. We recommend you contact Gwynedd Mindfulness, who provide many mindfulness opportunities in North Wales: their teaching team includes many long-standing CMRP teachers.
If you want a taster of what mindfulness meditation is like before deciding whether to sign up to a course, here are some free mindfulness audio tracks from some of our CMRP mindfulness teachers for you to try.
Distance Learning 8-week MBSR courses
Distance learning is a wonderful opportunity to learn mindfulness one-to-one with a CMRP teacher. You will receive learning materials at home and engage with your teacher via phone or internet sessions once a week. This course is especially suitable to people who may find it difficult to attend an 8 week group course:
- No courses in your country or area
- Restricted opportunity because of caring duties
- Unable to attend a group for health reasons.
This way of learning is also ideal for anyone with a mindfulness practice who would like to deepend and intensify their practice in a one-to-one teaching relationship with an experienced teacher.
For information about Distance learning courses, email distance-learning@mindfulness-network.org.
We offer ongoing monthly meeting groups in Bangor for everyone who has done an 8-week course with us.
You can also join us for a free day of mindfulness practice at various times during the year.
A great option is our 6-week Staying Mindful Course, which has been developed for those who wish to deepen their mindfulness practice after completing the 8-week course.
We have trained thousands of mindfulness teachers and have highly experienced training team. The main routes to training to be a mindfulness teacher are our Master’s programmes and the Teacher Training Pathway.
Compassion Courses
Courses that combine mindfulness with compassion training can help us develop and deepen our natural human capacity towards compassion, so we can be kinder to ourselves and others. As well as equipping us to meet life’s challenges, compassion is also a gateway to increased happiness.
In compassion-based courses, kindness and compassion are taught more front and centre than they are in MBSR and MBCT, and there is more focus on developing these qualities. Our ability to meet challenging experiences with compassion – instead of criticism and judgment – is gently developed through particular practices and exercises, alongside a focus on pleasant experiences and development of positive emotions.
CMRP no longer offers compassion-based events. However, if you are interested in finding out more about compassion, we recommend that you visit the website of The Mindfulness Network.
The Mindfulness Network offers a wide range of residential and non-residential compassion-based retreats and teacher training courses in both:
To find out more about MSC and MBCL, and to see their full list of events, please visit The Mindfulness Network website.