Teach adapted mindfulness-based interventions

This year-long, part-time, NHS-based training is for people who wish to teach adapted mindfulness-based approaches safely and effectively in a broad variety of contexts and populations.

Open to everybody and you don’t need to be local

This training course is open to both NHS staff and people who work outside the NHS. It runs from February to December each year. With three days in-person teaching and the rest online, you don’t need to be local.

We think you will love our training!

We think you will love our training! Find out why you should train to teach with us and hear from previous participants. Also watch this video about our teacher training for adapted mindfulness-based interventions.

Requirements and costs for training

Before you start your course, you need to meet the following criteria:

• Have a regular mindfulness meditation practice;
• Have taken the eight-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction or Mindfulness Based Cogtnitive Therapy course. If you work for the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust you can do the eight-week course for free. If you are not entitled to a free course, you can find out about our next eight-week mindfulness courses at the bottom of this page.
• Know which population you want to teach.

You can find out more about this training in our 2024 handbook (pdf) and/or by joining an information session. Drop us a line at smc@spft.nhs.uk if you’d like to know about the next information session.

Application forms

Sussex Partnership staff can apply using this form (download the Word document)
External candidates can apply using this form (download the Word document).

Applications for 2024 are now open

The deadline for applications is 1st December 2023. Applicants who are external to Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT) are welcome to submit their application early for an early selection decision.

Costs and bursaries

The course fees are £1,900, with an additional cost of a weekend retreat. There are usually some funded or part-funded training places available for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust staff.

There may be some reduced cost places for people who have limited financial means and/or who come from backgrounds that are currently underrepresented in the mindfulness practitioner and teacher community.

More information

If you have any questions, please contact smc@spft.nhs.uk or call our Sussex Mindfulness Centre Administrator on 0300 304 0689. Regular, online, information sessions will be held throughout the year. Please email smc@spft.nhs.uk if you’d like to book a place on one.

Teacher training information sessions

If you do the eight-week Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy course with us and then go on to train to teach with us, the full fee of £250 will be reduced from your teacher training fees.

Teacher training information sessions

Find out more by attending one of our teacher training information sessions. You can see them advertised at the bottom of this page. Or if none are advertised send an email to smc@spft.nhs.uk to register an interest in the next one.