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SUMMARY:Teaching Presence in Relationship: an Interpersonal Mindfulness teacher training retreat
DESCRIPTION:The residential “Teaching Presence in Relationship” teacher training retreat\, is designed to prepare teachers of mindfulness-based programmes to teach the Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme. This residential training course will take place at the Ammerdown Retreat Centre in Somerset\, near Bath\, from 22 to 30 October 2027. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOverview\n\n\n\nThe Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme offers participants a systematic method for cultivating mindfulness within the context of their relational lives. Extending practice beyond the personal to the interpersonal and social domains of life allows for healing and growth for everyone.  \n\n\n\n\nThe philosophical and scientific roots of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and other mindfulness based-interventions help reduce suffering and and increase wellbeing. They are a force for good in public health\, offering accessible and empowering ways for people to actively participate in their own health and wellness.  \n\n\n\n\nThe Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme goes a step further\, offering a relational mindfulness practice drawn from the foundations of Insight Dialogue (Interpersonal Meditation). Designed specifically to be practiced within live interaction\, this approach cultivates awareness in the midst of relationship\, fostering insight into the stress\, reactivity\, and habitual patterns that arise in connection with others.  \n\n\n\nWhat’s the format?\n\n\n\n\n\nThe residential training is offered over nine days in person at the Ammerdown Retreat Centre. \n\n\n\nThe first two and a half days of this training are presented primarily in retreat form. During this period\, participants will be immersed\, experientially\, in the nine-session course curriculum. Silence is practiced throughout this part of the retreat except when meditators are guided in dialogue together. This immersive\, experiential approach to learning allows participants to internalise the relational meditation guidelines before going on to teach them.  \n\n\n\nDuring the subsequent six-day training period\, participants engage in relational practice as well as guiding and being guided in teach-backs and in small and large groups. These interactive exercises deepen participants’ experiential understanding of the meditation guidelines\, contemplative themes\, and cultivate their teaching presence and skill. A comprehensive handbook containing the full curriculum will be supplied to participants to support learning and teaching.  \n\n\n\nYou are invited to attend a 60 minute online information session on 4 July at 10:00 UK time (BST)\, where Rosalie Dores and Kevin Fong from the teaching team will be available to answer your questions. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe training objectives\n\n\n\nThe training objectives include: \n\n\n\n\nCultivating the skills required to guide Insight Dialogue–based practices\, including guidelines\, themes\, and choreographed relational practice sequences; \n\n\n\nDeveloping a theoretical understanding of relational mindfulness methods\, skills and practices;\n\n\n\nExploring and experiencing the six guidelines of Insight Dialogue within the Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme;\n\n\n\nExpanding and enriching teachers’ embodied capacity as a vehicle to communicate and interact effectively with programme participants;\n\n\n\nDeepening understanding of the dialogue themes included in the programme\, as well as the nature and causes of relational stress.\n\n\n\n\nWho is the training for?\n\n\n\nThe programme is for mindfulness teachers who wish to teach the Interpersonal Mindfulness programme to graduates of an eight-week mindfulness course or to people who have prior meditation experience and the permission of the teacher. The training may also be of interest to health care professionals\, who fulfil the prerequisites\, who wish to deepen their presence in working relationships. \n\n\n\nYou do not need a clinical or psychotherapy background to do this training. \n\n\n\nThe teacher trainers\n\n\n\n\n\nRosalie Dores\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRosalie Dores is a mindfulness teacher\, supervisor and trainer. She teaches Insight Dialogue retreats and Interpersonal Mindfulness courses. She is an associate of The Mindfulness Network CIC.. She serves on the Insight Dialogue Community Teachers’ Council and mentors new teachers. Rosalie is dedicated to offering teachings that engage at the interface between ancient wisdom and the challenges of our modern world. She recognises interpersonal meditation addresses the urgent need for a meditative practice that incorporates the social and interpersonal domains of human experience as intrinsic to awakening. She co-teaches courses and workshops dedicated to raising awareness about climate and social justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhyllis Hicks \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhyllis K Hicks has been practicing insight meditation since 1998.  She is inspired by the transformative power of bringing mindfulness and wisdom to relational practices and everyday life.  Invited to train as an Insight Dialogue teacher in 2003\, she began co teaching retreats with Gregory Kramer and has offered ID retreats internationally with many in the ID Teaching Community. With Florence Meleo Meyer and Gregory Kramer\, she co-developed the Interpersonal Mindfulness Program (IMP).  She and Florence lead IMP Teacher Trainings and guide an international team of IMP Teachers called the “Gardeners” who tend the ongoing development of the program. Retiring as a psychotherapist and Counseling Institute Director of 35 years\, she continues to offer retreats\, teacher training\, serve on the IDC Teachers Council\, and teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at Duke Integrative Medicine.  \n\n\n\nKevin Fong\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKevin Fong is a teacher trainer\, supervisor\, and certification assessor for MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction). As an International Advisor\, trainer\, and Retreat Lead for the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation (UK)\, he has been teaching Insight Dialogue and Interpersonal Mindfulness programs since 2016. His work focuses on integrating evidence-based approaches with ancient wisdom for modern living\, with a particular interest in relational mindfulness and deepening practice through retreats. Kevin offers silent retreats\, classes\, and workshops in English\, Cantonese\, and Mandarin Chinese. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrerequisites for the training \n\n\n\n\n\nA regular personal silent meditation practice;\n\n\n\nParticipation in at least one 5-10 day in person\, residential silent retreat led by a teacher;\n\n\n\nParticipation in two 5 to 7 day in-person Insight Dialogue or Relational Mindfulness retreats. Upcoming retreats may be found here: Insight Dialogue and on the Relational Mindfulness Collaborative’s website here;\n\n\n\nParticipation in an eight-week Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme course (in your native language if possible). Find the eight-week Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme here. You can also find this eight-week course offered by our collaborating partners on Relational Mindfulness Collaborative’s website and in Cantonese and Mandarin on ATINAT’s website\, and on teacher Rosalie Dores’ website;\n\n\n\nHave undergone professional training as an MBCT/MBSR teacher (or another recognised mindfulness programme. Other professional training backgrounds can be considered on a case-by-case basis);\n\n\n\nHave taught at least three cycles of MBCT/MBSR or have equivalent experience or accreditation as a mindfulness teacher.\n\n\n\n\nIf you have met most of the prerequisites but not all\, it may still be possible to do the teacher training retreat.  Please contact us to explore this option.  \n\n\n\nVisit this page to see the full teacher training pathway to becoming a teacher of the eight-week Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme. \n\n\n\nCost of residential teacher training \n\n\n\nThe prices below include full board (room and all meals) and all tuition fees and materials. Please indicate your room type preferences on your application form. Room types will be allocated on a first come\, first served basis and will also take into account any accessibility or support needs.   \n\n\n\nEarly birds rates until 1 December 2026 (pay non-refundable deposit)\n\n\n\n\nSingle occupancy ensuite room: £2200\n\n\n\nSingle occupancy with shared bathroom (bathroom is shared between two bedrooms) £2000\n\n\n\n\nStandard rates from 2 December 2026 and later\n\n\n\n\nSingle occupancy ensuite room: £2500\n\n\n\nSingle occupancy with shared bathroom (bathroom is shared between two bedrooms) £ 2300\n\n\n\nNon-refundable deposit £700 \n\n\n\n\nApplication process\n\n\n\n\nClick here to complete an application form. It will then be sent to the teaching team for review.\n\n\n\n\n\nOnce your application has been accepted\, we will send you the deposit payment link to pay your £700 non-refundable deposit.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe relevant balance of your payment will need to be made. The amount depends on the date you apply (before or after the early bird rate).\n\n\n\n\nBursaries\n\n\n\nWe have a limited number of modest bursary places which offer a small reduction of not more than several hundred pounds reduction.  If you would not otherwise be able to attend without this\, please specify this in the application form. As we need to cover our costs\, we may not be able to decide on bursary places until a few months prior to the event itself. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions about this training\, please don’t hesitate to email us at spft.smc@nhs.net.
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/teaching-presence-in-relationship-an-interpersonal-mindfulness-teacher-training/
CATEGORIES:IMP,Teacher training
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SUMMARY:Compassionate Leadership Training course for health and social care leaders -Thursday afternoon
DESCRIPTION:Compassionate Leadership Training for health and social care leaders. Compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. \n\n\n\nSix two-hour online sessions on Thursdays\, from 4 November until 9 December 2027.  \n\n\n\nFollowing this\, there will be optional monthly follow-up sessions to review our learning and practice. The date for 2027 is Thursday 16 December 4-5pm. Dates for 2028 will be published here shortly. \n\n\n\nOverview \n\n\n\nAt the heart of compassion is the notion that everyone experiences difficulty\, and that we can all play a role in alleviating our own difficulties and those of others. Whether this is compassion for ourselves or the people we lead\, people who lead us\, colleagues or service users. We won’t always feel like helping and will sometimes be tired or overwhelmed or unable to connect. \n\n\n\nAlthough it helps to have positive feelings\, we do not have to feel compassion to be compassionate. We can recognise our physical and mental state\, resource ourselves as best we can\, and respond from our firm compassionate intention\, rather than from impulse or intense emotion. \n\n\n\nHow does this translate into compassion in health\, social care and other organisations? How might we think about compassionate leadership\, working with colleagues\, service users and their friends and families? Prof Michael West has spent his career answering this question\, pointing to research that shows how compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. In short\, compassion is essential to high quality healthcare. \n\n\n\nWho is the course for?\n\n\n\nThe course is for anyone in a leadership role within Health and Social Care and will combine experiential practice and reflection\, as well as home practice to help cultivate compassion for ourselves and the people we lead. \n\n\n\nWhat is the format of the course?\n\n\n\nThe course combines in-session mindfulness and compassion practice with reflection and discussion\, as well as an invitation for home mindfulness and compassion practice to help cultivate compassion for ourselves and the people we lead and work with. \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nRobert Marx\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert is Co-Lead (Training) for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. He is a consultant clinical psychologist and has been involved in running mindfulness groups for staff and patients since 2006. He also trains and supervises others doing mindfulness work. He is interested in relational mindfulness and in adaptations of Mindfulness-based Interventions using compassion practices. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuth Sequeira\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuth Sequeira is as senior trainer\, supervisor and mindfulness teacher for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. She is also a psychological therapist and the Mindfulness and Compassion Training and Retreat Lead at the Mindfulness Network. Ruth has a history of working in mental health services and until recently worked as a clinical lead in the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Sussex. Ruth has a longstanding interest in mindfulness\, meditation and movement\, and is passionate about increasing access to mindfulness courses in different populations. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nThe cost of this course is £200. Booking will open in April 2027. if you would like to be notified as soon as the bookings open for this course\, please email spft.smc@nhs.net.
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/compassionate-leadership-training-course-for-health-and-social-care-leaders-thursday-morning-3/
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