ABSTRACT

Essential Resources for Mindfulness Teachers offers the reader a wealth of knowledge about the explicit and implicit aspects of mindfulness-based teaching.

The book focuses on how to develop the craft of teaching mindfulness-based courses and is divided into three parts. Part I addresses the explicit elements of mindfulness-based courses, such as how to offer meditation practices and inquiry. Part II investigates the subtle but powerful implicit qualities needed within the teacher to convey the essence of mindfulness. Part III is a series of chapters on the underpinnings, considerations, and theories surrounding the teaching of mindfulness-based courses, and includes a new framework for reflective practice – the Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Teaching and Learning Companion (the TLC).

The book is a core companion text for both trainees and established mindfulness-based teachers, and is a resource you will return to again and again.

part I|63 pages

The explicit curriculum

chapter 9|11 pages

Inquiry

Conveying course themes through interactive dialogue

chapter 10|4 pages

Conveying session themes

Group exercises and didactic inputs

part II|52 pages

The implicit curriculum

part III|108 pages

Resourcing ourselves as mindfulness teachers

chapter 19|24 pages

The Mindfulness-Based Interventions

Teaching and Learning Companion (MBI:TLC)

chapter 21|11 pages

Mindfulness-based supervision

chapter 22|10 pages

Professional practice

chapter 23|12 pages

Trauma-sensitivity

chapter 24|11 pages

Societal themes

chapter 25|14 pages

Science and theory