Instructors:
Jon Aaron
Kathleen Beck-Coon
Janet Curry
Cara Geary
Carol Greco
Ruth Lerman
Elaine Retholtz
Dates (3 week-ends, all times are East Coast US time)
September 23-25 - Thursday evening, all day Friday and Saturday (from 8:15 am)
October 7-9 - All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday (from 8:15 am)
October 21-23 - All day Thursday, Friday and Saturday
The Mindfulness Teacher Training Alliance (MTTA) will be offering this training live via Zoom. The MBSR Teacher Advancement Intensive (TAI) fulfills the second-level formal program in the Global Mindfulness Collaborative’s teacher training pathway to becoming certified as an MBSR teacher. The TAI will strengthen teaching skills, personal practice, and expand experiential and didactic understanding of the elements of teaching MBSR through:
• Opportunities to practice teaching the elements of MBSR.
• Receiving peer and teacher trainer feedback in each session.
• Cultivating skills in offering meditation practices and didactic teachings of MBSR through self-reflection, dialogue, and practice.
• Forming community with other MBSR teachers.
• Between-session assignments prior to each weekend.
• Strengthening meditation practice.
• Widening personal and professional resilience and mindful presence which can be shared with others through teaching.
All teachers for this Teacher Advancement Intensive are members of the Mindfulness Teacher Training Alliance (MTTA) and the Global Mindfulness Collaborative (GMC) and are certified MBSR Teacher Trainers through the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts School of Medicine and the Mindfulness Center at Brown University School of Public Health (MC@B), a member of the GMC. Successful Completion of this training will be recognized by all members of the Global Mindfulness Collaborative including the Mindfulness Center at Brown University.
Pre-requisites
Prerequisites for this program include participation in a previous MBSR Foundations program, two qualifying retreats, and regular ongoing meditation practice for at least 2 years. Please contact the teachers if you are interested or want more information on this Fall 2021 TAI, or you may complete this application.
Tuition: $2,600.00
Fee reductions, payment plans and scholarships are available with special consideration given for BIPOC.