MBCL Teacher Training
Would you like to deepen your mindfulness skills with heartfulness? Then, joining the mindfulness-based compassionate living (MBCL) training might be of interest to you. Yearly the MBCL teacher training is being offered during 6 teaching days (6 consequtive days, 2x3 days, or 3x2 days), in which you are immersed in the MBCL program, both on an experiential personal as teacher level. See below for more information.
Agenda
MBCL Teacher Training
The MBCL Teacher Training program offers mindfulness trainers and others doing mindfulness-based work the opportunity to become acquainted with the format and exercises of the MBCL group-based training program and to learn to work with the curriculum and guide compassion-based exercises themselves.
Specific goals of the MBCL Teacher Training program are:
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Mastering the basic attitude associated with compassion-focused methodologies;
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Learning to work with compassion-focused methodologies both in groups and individually. Whether participants can give the group-based compassion training independently depends on the depth of their own practice and their previous experience with group-based work and teaching MBSR/MBCT;
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Gaining insight into for whom the MBCL training and specific exercises are suitable and about the trans-diagnostic application possibilities of the MBCL training;
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Deepening skills in mindful dialogue/inquiry during MBCL training.
Participants are intensively introduced to the content the MBCL program, and plenty of space is provided for personal experience and further deepening of the exercises. In addition, emphasis is placed on becoming familiar with working with the curriculum and guiding compassion-focused exercises.
For whom?
The MBCL Teacher Training is suitable for trainers in MBSR, MBCT or an other mindfulness-based program recognized as equivalent, who wish to deepen their own practice and work as a mindfulness trainer and possibly teach the training as a sequel to the MBSR/MBCT. However, this training program is also suitable for (G)Gz-healthcare workers, teachers, coaches and other professionals who have experience in mindfulness-based work (e.g., MBSR/MBCT, ACT, DGT) and seek compassion-focused deepening and / or want to start working individually with compassion-focused exercises.
Eligibility criteria
The MBCL Teacher Training is suitable for those who...
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have preferably a higher professional education working and thinking level;
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have participated in an eight-week MBCL Compassion Training or a three-day experiential MBCL Intensive with a certified MBCL Trainer, in which the exercises and core themes of the program were being offered;
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have (substantially) completed an accredited MBSR/MBCT or similar basic mindfulness-based program teacher training (registered as an “advanced trainer” with the VMBN), or practicing a (g)gz or other social profession, preferably having experience and training in guiding mindfulness-based methodologies (such as mindfulness exercises from MBSR/MBCT, ACT or DGT) and having completed at least an eight-week mindfulness MBSR/MBCT training program themselves and having at least one year of experience with mindfulness meditation.
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are willing to participate in exercises in the roles of trainer, participant and observer, in small and larger subgroups, and to give and receive feedback respectfully;
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are willing to take responsibility for one's own health and physical, psychological and interpersonal functioning.
Content
Theory
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Pain and suffering as shared humanity;
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How our brain and organism have evolved to help us survive;
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Understanding the three central emotion regulation systems;
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How the emotion regulation systems can become unbalanced by outside influences, as well as from within, e.g., shame, self-criticism and “the inner critic;
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How mental representations can affect emotion regulation systems and how training in compassion can help restore balance;
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Tend & befriend: a fourth instinctive response to stress, in addition to fight, flight & freeze;
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Three antidotes to excessive self-criticism, self-isolation & over-identification: self-kindness, common humanity & mindfulness, respectively;
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Developing compassion mode through exercises in compassionate motivation, attention, feeling, reasoning, the imagination, speaking and acting;
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The cultivation of compassion as one of the four heart qualities or “friends of life”: compassion, loving kindness, compassion and equanimity;
Teacher Skills
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Structure of the training per session;
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Practice in guiding the main compassionate exercises yourself and doing inquiry in the process;
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Practice in guiding the didactic parts of the training;
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Pitfalls in guiding the exercises, differences between the role of trainer and the role of therapist;
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Dealing with difficulties in practice, the surfacing of old pain and the phenomenon of backdraft;
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Creating space for a safe and openness facilitating holding and light atmosphere in the group;
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Further embodying and developing compassion mode and the four friends of life: compassion, loving kindness, compassion and equanimity;
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Connecting relevant scientific knowledge regarding evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, stress and emotion regulation with practice.
Practicalities
Location
The MBCL Teacher Training takes place at Senz GGZ, a beautiful location in the middle of the forrest, centrally located in the Netherlands. Full address: Driebergsestraatweg 9, 3941 ZS, Doorn, the Netherlands.
Accreditation
The MBCL Teacher Training is recognized as continuing education and accredited by the Mindfulness Register of the VMBN for 60 accreditation (PE) points.
Costs
The MBCL Teacher Training costs € 1233,- (incl. VAT).
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Including teaching material, tea/coffee, and lunch on site.
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Excluding literature and stay.
Literature in English
Literature in Dutch
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E. van den Brink and F. Koster (2016). Compassievol leven: een mindfulness-based verdiepingsprogramma. Boom | € 53,75 (verplichte literatuur)
Proof of Participation
A minimum of 90% attendance with sufficient effort is required for a certificate of participation. In case of bottlenecks, one must perform a substitute assignment in consultation with the teachers. In most cases, this means compensating for missed hours through self-study and requesting one or more additional supervision hours.
Registration
MBCL trainees can register in the Mindfulness Register as an MBCL trainer, and at the international MBCL website as Certified MBCL Teacher or as Professional working with MBCL. See https://www.mbcl-international.net/mbcl-teachers/ for a full description.
Meet the teachers.
Is a former monk (6 years) and health care nurse. He has practiced vipassana meditation since 1979 and studied Buddhist psychology. Currently, Frits works as a mindfulness and compassion teacher in mental health care, and he is a teacher and trainer at various mindfulness training institutes in the Netherlands and abroad, for the general public, as well as for healthcare professionals.