Articles and blog posts written by Mindfulness Association teachers about teaching Mindfulness, Compassion, Insight and Wisdom and how they bring them into their teaching.
Why Self-Care Isn’t Selfish for Mindfulness Teachers As mindfulness teachers, we dedicate ourselves to guiding others towards presence, peace, and self-compassion. We often speak of the importance of an open heart and curiosity. Yet, in our commitment to sharing with others, we can sometimes overlook a fundamental fact that we cannot pour from an empty…
As mindfulness teachers, we are not simply instructors; we are the caretakers of a transformative practice. Our role requires us to embody the very principles we share. As a straightforward way of outlining this here are the key pillars that ensure our teaching is both effective and ethically grounded. Pillar 1: Cultivate Your Personal…
Sometimes in an inquiry with a participant, the air becomes electric. It’s like they are standing at the edge of a cliff about to spread wings they didn’t know they had, in order to fly into the horizon of a new possibility. The exhilaration of inner discovery has completely captured all of us in the…
New Compassion Based Living Course Book LINK TO SEE THE BOOK! The Compassion Based Living Course, is a self-guided compassion course based on Choden and Heather’s fifteen years’ experience of teaching in depth compassion meditation courses to thousands of students. It draws on compassion teachings and practices from Mahayana Buddhism, which have been adapted to…
Usually, we teach the compassion course to people who have already started on their mindfulness journey – maybe they had learned mindfulness from you and were asking ‘what’s next? How do I continue growing what I’ve learned so far, how can I deepen my practice?’ When people first come together for a mindfulness course, it…
Cultivating Presence Retreat – 10-15th March – with Alan Hughes As mindfulness teachers, our presence is one of the fundamental qualities that we bring to our teaching. This reflects the stability of our mindfulness; the extent to which we are grounded in awareness itself. Mindful awareness increasingly becomes our reference point, rather than the contents…
‘This may indeed be a pivotal moment for our species to come to our senses … mobilising in the mainstream world … the power of mindfulness” Jon Kabat-Zinn On the first day of a mindfulness teacher training I look around the room. I see a circle of people who are each on the brink of…
Eighteen months into this new Masters degree course I thought I would add some of my own reflections to those of our students on this course, after our second year retreat at Samye Ling. If you want a life changing course – go for this course. It’s been amazing – the sense of growth from…
This week behind the scenes basics from the MBLC Mindfulness Based Living Course – an overview from the perspective of a trainee teacher i.e. me. (Reluctant and terrified trainee teacher). There are three ways to qualify as Ready to Teach the MBLC. A: MIndfulness Level 1 > Teacher Training Level 1 ( 2 weekends) >…