Part 2 is open to any professional who has completed Part 1 and can demonstrate that they work within recognised professional guidelines for safe and ethical practice. The key point is that you must be a member of a professional organisation or group that sets the boundaries for your practice. This includes health and social care, psychotherapy and educational professionals among many others. If you are not sure whether your profession would meet these requirements please contact us.

At the heart of Part 2 is the exploration of how to spaciously, compassionately and insightfully hold the activities of your professional work. As our mindfulness practice deepens we can hold the activities of thinking, speaking, doing and reflecting on the responses of another in mindful awareness. This opens opportunities for a profound and intimate engagement with our work at its most mundane or most challenging. It is easy to become focused on the ‘doing’ of mindfulness teaching, the mechanics of guiding someone else as they learn to be more mindful. But this narrows our attention onto the still important but least transformative aspect of being a mindful professional. It is our  authentic being, the open-heartedness that we bring to our work that we would argue is what is profoundly transformative, not the techniques we might teach.

Fortunately, the most effective way we have found to explore and learn how we can mindfully hold the activities of our work and our lives is to mindfully guide another person to be mindful. While guiding another to be mindful we are thinking, speaking and doing, and reflecting on our empathic sense of how the person we are guiding is responding. Framed by the slow and gentle process of guiding another, we have the time and space to learn how we can hold all these activities mindfully.

The training element of the practice of teaching others to be mindful therefore serves the needs of those wishing to be mindful in their work and also those intending to teach others to be mindful.

This brings a very open and creative experience to guiding others and also allows us to explore the soft and hard edges of how mindful approaches may be integrated into our work.

Requirements for Part 2 Entry:

• Completion of Part 1.
• Being a professional working within a recognised code of ethics / practice.

Part 2 comprises at least 3 weekends  plus a Saturday practice day probably in April 2013, 10.00am-4.00pm.
The course is supported by an online site with course materials and a range of mindfulness practice recordings.

Dates: weekend dates in 2013 Sept-December. Dates to be set soon.

 

Application Form: Please go to this page to download the application form.

Completion of Part 2 requires:

1. 80% attendance

2. Reading Mindfulness and Psychotherapy by Christopher Germer et al. 2005. Guildford or Mindfulness for Two by Kelly Wilson & Troy DuFrene. 2009. New Harbinger.

3. Submission of a 2 page reflective commentary on your learning about your own soft and hard edges associated with your experience of mindful practice, being mindful in your professional work and the process of recording your reflections in a journal. These reflections are submitted to the course facilitators who in turn will submit their own reflective commentary on their learning around these issues to the group.

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