
Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living (MBCL) Teacher Training – International Online Programme
February 23, 2026 @ 7:00 pm - March 8, 2026 @ 5:00 pm GMT
£912

About this training:
This teacher training programme enables participants to complete the MBCL teacher training offered in two modules. The process involves an orientation session and 6 days online training (38 hours tutor-led teaching), with a minimum of 2×2 hours meeting in a small group at self-arranged times. Participants are also required to read the workbook in advance.
Content of the MBCL Teacher Training-Programme:
The validation of pain and suffering.
How our brain has evolved to help us survive and how compassion is a necessity (not a luxury), for our wellbeing and survival.
Insight into the three basic emotion-regulation and motivation systems
How mental images and patterns can bring emotion-regulation systems out of balance and how compassionate imagery can restore the balance.
The psychological expressions of fight, flight & freeze: self-criticism, self-isolation and over-identification; and their antidotes: self-kindness, common humanity & mindfulness.
‘Tend & befriend’ as a fourth reaction to stress in addition to fight, flight & freeze.
Dealing with desires and inner patterns; self-conscious emotions shame and self-blame; the inner critic and inner helper.
Developing the compassion mode with its attributes of care for wellbeing and relief of suffering, sensitivity to needs, sympathy, empathy, tolerance of distress and non-judgmental awareness.
The balanced cultivation of the four limitless qualities: compassion, loving kindness, joy and equanimity.
Compassion in action and practical ethics.
The structure of MBCL’s 8 sessions will be presented in detail from the teaching perspective.
The content and structure of compassion-focused exercises will be reviewed and practiced.
Participants will have more practice guiding MBCL exercises as well as leading inquiry into compassion practices.
Background knowledge and meta-perspectives for MBCL trainers, including:
Evolutionary perspectives
High and low routes toward compassion
The plasticity of the brain
The physiology of the breath
Individual and gender differences
Different attachment styles
MBCL and psychological problems, indications/contra-indications
MBCL in private practice settings
Content and attitude in communication
The differences and common ground between psychotherapy and MBCL training.
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