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If you are considering training to teach MBCT, you first need to participate in an 8-week MBCT course and establish your own personal mindfulness practice.
You may be able to find a suitable course near you at www.bemindfulonline.com. The Oxford Mindfulness Center (www.octc.co.uk) has a schedule of workshops and offer introductory days, 5-day experiential courses (equivalent to an 8-week course) and teacher training retreats. |
Mindfulness is the awareness that emerges through paying attention in a particular way, on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgementally, to the unfolding of experience moment by moment Mindfulness refers to keeping one’s consciousness alive to the present reality. It is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves “Mindfulness is a universal human capacity – a way of paying attention to the present moment unfolding of experience – that can be cultivated, sustained and integrated into everyday life through in-depth inquiry, fuelled by the ongoing discipline of meditation practice. Its central aim is the relief of suffering and the uncovering of our essential nature” |
Mindfulness is knowing what is happening, when it is happening, without preference. Mindfulness is… a turning towards life…. To live life as if each moment is important, as if each moment counted and could be worked with, even if it is a moment of pain, sadness, despair or fear. I have learned to be happy where I am. I have learned that locked into the moments of each day are all the joys, the peace, the fibres of the cloth we call life. The meaning is in the moment. There is no other way to find it. You feel what you allow yourself to feel, each and every moment of the day. |