Mindfulness Teacher Training

Train to Teach the 8 Week Mindfulness Based Living Course (MBLC)

Tutors: Alan Hughes

Dates: 8-9 August 2026 and 24-25 October 2026

Booking info: Please contact info@mindfulnessassociation.net for the booking link

Location: The Crichton, Bankend Road, Dumfries, DG1 4TA.  For more details about the Crichton please click here.

The cafe in Crichton Central is open for food/drinks from 10am until 4pm (last food orders being 3.30pm) and the Bistro in Easterbrook Hall serves food Thursday-Sunday 11am-4pm. Please find the Bistro menu attached here and the cafe menu here to see all the options.

There is an on-site Bankend Bar & Brasserie Holiday Inn, for room rates and availability please click here. Breakfast is served between 7.00am and 10.30am on a weekend and 7.00am- 10.00am on weekdays and dinner between 17.00pm and 21.30pm. There are over 200 complimentary car parking spaces for hotel guests.

Please click here for the evening menu at the Holiday Inn, tables are available to book via the website. Please find here a list of alternative accommodation in the area and there is also Air B & B and booking.com. These are purely suggestions, not personal recommendations.

There is a room rate for Mindfulness Association participants. Please ring the Holiday Inn (01387 272410) and quote ‘Mindfulness Association’ the room rate is £105.00 per night B&B single occupancy and £110.00 per night B&B double occupancy.

There is free car parking outside Crichton Central and in the large car park outside Easterbrook Hall. Electric charging points and cycle racks are available outside Crichton Central and across the estate. The number 5 bus route from Dumfries town centre takes you from Great King Street to The Crichton Campus. The venue is a 10-minute car ride from Dumfries train station and 45 minutes from the M6.

There is a 12 metre swimming pool, sauna and steamroom which is open daily from 7am-8pm. Booking is essential and you can pay as you go if you are not staying as a guest, please just book at the Bistro.

Cost: £440.00 payable in two monthly instalments of £220.00

Train To Teach Mindfulness – Level 1 

Share the benefits of Mindfulness with others as you train to teach with this online course.

Our in person Mindfulness Teacher Training Level 1 course aims to support participants to begin developing a safe and effective mindfulness teaching practice.

This course provides participants with opportunities to lead guided practices and enquiry with fellow participants in a safe environment. Feedback is from self, fellow participants and tutors takes place over twelve evenings and aims to support participants to begin developing a safe and effective mindfulness teaching practice.

The course emphasises the requirement for participants to be able to embody mindfulness and compassion while teaching mindfulness training courses. The key skill is learning to stay fully present as you lead guided practices and enquiry. This skill depends entirely upon a sustained and regular personal mindfulness practice.

If you have engaged in mindfulness training yourself and feel you have benefited, then what a wonderful opportunity to help share the benefits of mindfulness practice with others so they benefit too.

As part of your mindfulness training, you may have noticed a personal transformation in terms of managing your own stress levels and increased wellbeing. By training to teach the 8-week Mindfulness Based Living Course, we can help others to relieve their stress, manage pain and chronic illness, achieve their full potential and really flourish in their lives.

By going through the teacher training and sharing the benefits of mindfulness with others our own practice and understanding of mindfulness grows. In turn our practice deepens, and we reap the benefit too.

You can find our further mention on this course here.