Our 12-Month Teacher Training Programme offers you the opportunity to develop your skills, competencies and confidence to teach mindfulness in a variety of different settings.

The training is suitable for you if you’re a professional working in a clinical setting with patients or if you’d like to teach adults in other settings; for example, in education, the workplace or in your community.

By the end of the programme, you’ll have trained in at least 3 different mindfulness courses, each with their foundations in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

If you’re a professional working in a clinical setting, you’ll be trained to teach Mindfulness for Life (MBCT-L), Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT) or Finding Peace in a Frantic World, and the Introducing Mindfulness (IM) 3-session course.

If you plan to offer mindfulness in other settings, you’ll train to teach Mindfulness for Life (MBCT-L), Finding Peace in a Frantic World and the Introducing Mindfulness (IM) 3-session course.

On this training you’ll learn:

– The MBCT-L curriculum, including its intentions and the rationales for its elements.
– To lead all elements of the curriculum in an embodied way
– How to conduct inquiry and manage group processes
– The theoretical, empirical, and ethical foundations of MBCT
– The intentions, structure, and practices in each curriculum
– At the end of the training, and if you’ve participated fully and been assessed as having reached the ‘advanced beginner’ level of teaching, you’ll receive a letter from Oxford Mindfulness confirming your readiness to teach under supervision.

After successfully teaching 2 courses under supervision, you can then apply for your Trained Teacher Certificate.

There are 28 training days over the course of the 12-month programme.