Together with our partners, we run the only Interpersonal Mindfulness teacher training programme in the UK, and will jointly accredit the qualification with the IMP/Relational Mindfulness Collaborative.

What is it Interpersonal Mindfulness?

The Relational Mindfulness Programme offers a bridge between our solitary meditation practice, and our relational lives. This eight-week course has been developed by the Centre for Mindfulness and the Insight Dialogue Foundation in the US, to support MBSR graduates in integrating mindfulness practice into their interactions with others.

The Relational Mindfulness course is an opportunity for practitioners to deepen and refine their meditation practice and extend this into their relational lives. Much of our stress and challenge happens in relationship with others, and yet we give so little time to developing skills to work with this. Learning how to bring the calm and concentration developed in meditation practice into our relationships can be life enhancing, enriching, deeply satisfying and potentially joyful.  During the course, we will bring together the power of mindfulness, deep listening and foundational teachings drawn from the study of human psychology and ancient wisdom traditions. As a result you will deepen self-understanding, develop greater authenticity, relational confidence, self-compassion and compassion for others, deepen empathy and self-enquiry.

Teacher training pathway

To understand the steps you need to go through to complete Interpersonal Mindfulness teacher training you can see the pathway here . On completing these steps you are trained to run the Interpersonal Mindfulness programme to graduates of an eight-week mindfulness course.

Who is the training for?

The programme is for mindfulness teachers who wish to teach the Interpersonal Mindfulness programme to graduates of an eight-week mindfulness course. The training may also be of interest to health care professionals, who fulfil the prerequisites, who wish to deepen their presence in working relationships.

You do not need a clinical or psychotherapy background to do this training.

The next course

You can find out all you need to know about the next residential teacher training course here. The steps you need to fulfil to become an Interpersonal Mindfulness programme are shown in the teacher training pathway here.

You 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. You can find the details at the bottom of the page.

You can stay up-to-date with our teacher training opportunities by signing up to our newsletter. And you can register your interest or send any further enquiries to us at spft.smc@nhs.net.

The teacher trainers

The teacher trainers are Rosalie Dores, Phyllis K Hicks and Kevin Fong. You can see their bios here.