This teacher training intensive is highly interactive. Throughout the days trainees will move back and forth from experiencing the sessions of MBSR and working in small groups to begin practicing teaching the various components of the MBSR program under the supervision and guidance of the teacher trainers. Inherent in this teacher training is the necessity of a personal mindfulness practice as a platform from which to teach.
The delivery of MBSR requires the teacher to teach from a personal integration of what it means to embody a non-judgmental present moment focus with an understanding of how this supports and strengthens such mind states as kindness, compassion and equanimity. This training will provide the opportunity to strengthen these teacher competences.
The delivery of MBSR requires the teacher to teach from a personal integration of what it means to embody a non-judgmental present moment focus with an understanding of how this supports and strengthens such mind states as kindness, compassion and equanimity. This training will provide the opportunity to strengthen these teacher competences.
This teacher training intensive will integrate didactic and experiential teaching modules. The curriculum includes both large and small group learning, with opportunity for role-play and simulated patient-practitioner encounters. There is daily meditation practice yoga/mindful movement, and periods of silence. The ethical underpinnings of teaching MBSR will be discussed.
Certificate
After attending the training, you may state: “_____ (your name) has attended and completed the MBSR Teacher Training Intensive through the UCSD Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute.”
Upon completion of this training, you may enroll in the MBPTI as an MBSR Teacher-in-Training. Upon enrollment you will receive a Provisional Certificate of Qualification that indicates that you are a trainee in the institute. This allows you to offer the 8-week MBSR program to the general public under the individual guidance of MBPTI-approved mentors. You may state publicly that you are “Enrolled in the UC San Diego Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute’s MBSR Teacher Certification Program.
This program is sponsored by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 31.25 hours of credit.
This activity is an approved continuing education program by the American Psychological Association. 31.25 contact hours may be applied to your license renewal through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For those licensed outside California, please check with your local licensing board to determine if APA accreditation meets their requirements.
UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16351, for 37.5 contact hours.
As well as you may know Mindfulness as a topic has garnered a great deal of attention over the past years and is certainly in the public eye in many ways.
Interest in mindfulness-based approaches has exploded around the globe and there's great demand for this practice
that really seems to help people to develop the ability to cope with stress, pain, illness, symptoms of depression and anxiety and all sorts of other challenges people face today.
The research behind mindfulness-based approaches continues to mount and point to potential great benefit for society
through the practice of mindfulness.
As interest in mindfulness and mindfulness-based stress reduction MBSR continues to grow the importance of having good solid
trained teachers to deliver these programs is crucial and that's why we at UCSD have established our mindfulness-based
professional training institute which aims to provide pathways for certification and verification of competence of teachers of mindfulness-based programs
The MBSR TTI - the teacher training intensive that we'll be offering in portugal is the first major step towards certification in teaching MBSR and we encourage the participants in this training to consider continuing with their training beyond the six day intensive by gauging with a mentor and seeking certification as an MBSR teacher.
We have a huge number of very well qualified experienced MBSR mentors people who have been teaching MBSR for many many years
and bring a great deal of wisdom and skill to the teaching of MBSR.
The process of teaching MBSR can be a tremendously rewarding and challenging one! If you have had the opportunity to
take MBSR then you may consider becoming a teacher of MBSR and attending our training in Portugal.
