Integrated Mindfulness Training is in 3 parts:

• Part 1. Personal Practice Focus: In this part we explore a range of mindfulness approaches, enabling you to find your own ways to integrate mindfulness practice into your life.
• Part 2: Professional Practice Focus: Building on the personal practice developed in Part 1, this part offers you opportunities to explore how you might integrate mindfulness approaches into your work.
• Part 3: Supervised Practice Focus: This part enables you to specifically define the boundaries of how mindfulness approaches can be safely and ethically integrated into your work and supports you in becoming confident and competent in the way you use mindfulness in ways appropriate to your professional practice.

After completion of Part 3 you can choose to join our community of professionals who integrate mindfulness into their life and work. This is a peer-supervision network offering mutual support in sustaining and developing our mindful practice.

These parts will be explored in more detail below:

A key philosophy of our training approach is to offer a space in which you can find your own way to integrate mindfulness into your life and a context in which you can ensure your professional engagement with mindfulness approaches is safe and well boundaried.

By the very nature of mindfulness practice, the more we embody mindfulness the more insightfully we can judge the boundary of our own safe practice. This safe and ethical practice boundary lies outside the soft edge that borders our comfort zone of familiar and established ways of working, but is found well before the hard edge of unethical and unsafe practice. This concept of soft and hard edges (see diagram below) informs the whole course; these edges are particular to each individual and as we explore and become familiar with them in their many different dimensions, we learn to trust our heart-felt sense of the degree of compassionate challenge that will further our development.

The Integrated Mindfulness Training course offers a rich and supportive learning environment in which you can become adept at exploring the territory beyond your present soft-edge. As this territory is unique to each individual, you will notice that there are very few specific requirements associated with the course and those that are made are offered in the spirit of opportunity to gain insight into your edges. In some ways this is more challenging: by offering a very spacious context in which to explore mindfulness practice you will encounter the boundaries of your own intentions and expectations more directly.

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