In addition to completing Part 2, those wishing to progress to Part 3 must identify, at the start of their supervised practice, the extent to which they anticipate incorporating MBAs into their professional work and, where necessary, demonstrate that the scope of their intended practice lies within what their professional body considers to be safe and ethical practice.

While this is open to ongoing review throughout Part 3, establishing your expected boundaries of practice informs the end-point of Part 3. Here there is a consensus between the supervisors, your peers and yourself that you have a thorough and insightful knowledge of the way mindfulness approaches can be safely and ethically integrated into your work and that this knowledge and insight is rooted in your own embodied practice.

There are 3 main ways mindfulness approaches tend to be integrated into professional work:

1. The essential foundational and ongoing practice of mindfully holding the mental, emotional, practical and relational aspects of your professional work. The main focus of Part 3 in this context is the broadening and deepening of mindfulness practice and the exploration of the consequences of holding your professional practice within your unfolding mindfulness practice.
2. The integration of attitudes and concepts of mindfulness into professional work. For example, exploration of the embodied experience of and compassionate movement towards distress. The main focus of Part 3 in this context is to demonstrate that your conceptual frameworks and attitudes around the integration of mindfulness are sound (including the paradoxical nature of much of this work) and to explore how such attitudes and concepts arise from your embodied mindfulness practice.
3. Teaching mindfulness practices to others. Ranging from very brief grounding practices to much more involved multi-staged practices, there can seem to be a much more distinct boundary to be crossed when we bring the intention to teach mindfulness practices in the context of our professional work, but this boundary often becomes less distinct and more nuanced the more we embody and integrate mindfulness approaches.

The teaching of mindfulness-based practices has, in some contexts, become the activity taken to characterise MBAs – but we consider the first 2 ways of integrating mindfulness into professional practice to be far more transformative to our work than the ability to provide instruction for someone to be mindful.

Even when we do provide such instruction, we consider that it is when this is framed by our own embodied practice that the experience of being taught has greater transformative potential. The main focus of Part 3 in this context is on developing your skills to guide others safely and ethically from your own embodied practice and to explore how teaching others fits within the boundaries of your professional work.

The endpoint of Part 3 is a clear statement of the boundaries of your integration of mindfulness into your professional practice, with agreement given by your peers and supervisors that how you integrate mindfulness is safe and ethical. After Part 3 you are welcome to join the Integrated Mindfulness Network as a full member, which includes ongoing development in the context of peer supervision as a core activity.

Requirements for Part 3 Entry:

• Completion of Parts 1 & 2.
• Being a professional working within a recognised code of ethics/practice.
• Being able to identify the expected boundaries within which you will integrate mindfulness-based approaches appropriate to your professional work.

Part 3 comprises 8 x 2½ hour training sessions on Thursday evenings: 6.30-9.00pm at the Friends Meeting House, Eccles plus a Saturday Practice Day on March 9^th 2013,  10.00am-4.00pm. In addition 2 mindful practice days need to be undertaken – these can be via the Saturday practice Days we offer or practice days / retreats offered elsewhere.

In addition, each participant needs to undertake at least 3 one-to-one supervision sessions with a supervisor with a relevant experience of mindfulness-based approaches. It is anticipated that these sessions would occur at the beginning, towards the middle and towards the end of Part Three. Where people are intending to teach mindfulness practices to others this supervision will require sessions to be recorded.

The course is supported by an online site with course materials and a range of mindfulness practice recordings.

Dates:

2012: Sept 13^th; Nov 8^th, 29^th; Dec 20^th;

2013: Jan 31^st; Mar 7^th; April 18^th; May 23^rd.

NB: These dates are for those completing the 2011-12 course. For those staring the course in 2012-13 dates for Part Three will be in 2013-14.

Fee: £100- 270 (can be paid in instalments). The price is variable because it includes the minimum of 2 supervision sessions and possible venue charges.

Venue: Greater Manchester: We expect the venue to be Tim’s house in Whitefield (north Manchester) as this will significantly reduce costs. If numbers are too large for this venue we will explore another venue.

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

Completion of Part 3 requires:

1. 80% attendance

2. Reading MBCT for Depression by Segal et al. 2002. Guildford and Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn. 2001. Piatkus (also available as audiobook).

3. Submission of a 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 will underpin the clear statement of the boundaries of your integration of mindfulness into your professional practice and the mutual agreement of your peers and supervisors that how you integrate mindfulness is safe and ethical. These reflections are submitted to the course facilitators who, in turn, will submit their own reflective commentary on how they integrate mindfulness into their professional work, as part of the ongoing peer supervision process of Network members. These reflections will form material explored in the supervision sessions.

4. Depending on your intended use of mindfulness-approaches, you may need to demonstrate evidence of being mentored while teaching mindfulness in a specific mode or context relevant to your professional work. An example would be someone who already works in a group context, intending to develop group mindfulness teaching. This requires particular skills that are most appropriately developed through mentoring and co-delivery of group teaching.

5. Evidence of having experienced seven mindful practice days in the last 18 months. At least two of these days should be experienced through a residential mindfulness retreat.

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