Train to teach mindfulness

Train to teach mindfulness and mindful self-compassion with one of the leading mindfulness centres in the UK. You’ll be learning at the only mindfulness teacher training and research centre embedded in the NHS.

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Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy

Train to teach Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy courses.

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Brief & adapted interventions

This prepares you to teach adapted mindfulness approaches safely & effectively in a variety of contexts.

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Mindful Self-Compassion teacher training

The UK-based training programme to enable participants to run the Mindful Self-Compassion course.

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With many teacher training courses to chose from we help you navigate the choices to find the course most relevant to you, and highlight what is special about our training. This includes the option of doing top-up training.

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Top up training

This enables past students of brief & adapted training to top-up their skills so they can teach a mindfulness course.

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Which training is for me?

To help you find which teacher training programme is right for you, this page helps you navigate the choices.

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Why train with us?

Find out what is unique to our teacher training programmes for mindfulness and Mindful Self-Compassion.

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Masterclasses

Our masterclasses cover specialist topics relevant to mindfulness and Mindful Self-Compassion teachers and trainees.

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With our partners we run a one-year programme to enable clinicians to teach Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy in the NHS. Find out more here.

Interpersonal mindfulness teacher training

We’re hosting the Interpersonal Mindfulness teacher training programme in 2027, the first time it’s been held in the UK. Find out more here.

Teacher training information sessions

We offer free online information sessions to help you find out more about our teacher training programmes, so you can decide if the course is for you. These are advertised below. If there isn’t an information session for a course you are interested in please drop us a line at spft.smc@nhs.net and we’ll let you know when the next one is.