Mindfulness Facilitator Conversion Training

The Mindfulness Facilitator Conversion Training is for anyone who has completed the Breathworks Introductory Teacher Training (TTi) who would like to convert that training to become a Breathworks Mindfulness Facilitator. This Training is also for you if you are a Breathworks Teacher looking to expand your teaching content with new input. 

What is a Mindfulness Facilitator?

Usually taught across two parts, the Mindfulness Facilitator Training teaches you to lead six mini mindfulness sessions based on the Breathworks approach.

The Mindfulness Facilitator Training is ideal if you are looking to incorporate mindfulness into your work, whether you are a therapist, counsellor, medical professional, or simply looking to help your team at work, or your friends and family with mindfulness. The main difference between our Facilitator Training and full Breathworks Teacher Training is the latter gives you a fuller breadth of learning to teach longer courses and more in-depth sessions drawing from the Breathworks Mindfulness for Stress and Mindfulness for Health approach. 

What will I learn?

On this day-long, online Mindfulness Facilitator Conversion Training, you will learn how to guide six mini mindfulness sessions which have been designed to be adaptable for a variety of settings; they can be used as free-standing sessions or combined in different ways to create your own mindfulness classes or workshops. As well as covering new content and resources, you will practice facilitating in groups and receive teaching support from Breathworks’ Head of Training. 

On completion, you will receive a Mindfulness Facilitator certification. Should you wish to go on to complete your Breathworks Teacher Training to deepen your teaching knowledge and skills you are free to do so.

Who is this event for?

• Individuals who have completed their Introductory Teacher Training with Breathworks. 
• Qualified and accredited Breathworks Teachers. Please note that all accredited teachers will receive Facilitator Teaching Notes in our early 2024 curriculum update. The training counts as a CPD so is eligible for the accredited Breathworks Teachers discount.

What will I gain from attending?

• Gain a Mindfulness Facilitator certification from a globally renowned training provider.
• Learn how to teach six new mindfulness mini modules based on the Breathworks approach.
• Practise facilitating and leading meditation and mindfulness sessions.
• Learn to share powerful mindfulness practices with your community, workplace, friends & family.
  Deepen your knowledge of the Breathworks approach to mindfulness and compassion, and your own personal engagement with it in your practice.
• Learn and develop teaching skills in supportive peer groups.
• Gain support and expertise from Breathworks’ Head of Training.
  

Your Trainer

Ginny Wall Ginny is an experienced mindfulness teacher and Breathworks’ Head of Training. With over twenty years of teaching experience, her background spans teaching, retreat leading, writing, youth work and educational programme development. She enjoys working in contexts as varied as community centres, workplaces, festivals, schools, homes and faith communities.  She came across the Breathworks Mindfulness for Health course after going through a period of emotional pain and anxiety due to family circumstances, and found the approach, in particular its combined emphasis on awareness and compassion, to be transformational. It proved to be a real turning point in her practice and life more generally, and she now regularly teaches Mindfulness for Health and Mindfulness for Stress to individuals and groups.

Details

Start time: Tuesday 10 September 9:30

End Time: Tuesday 10 September 16:00

(UK time; see this Time Zone Converter for your time zone)

Please note, bookings for this event will close on Monday 9 September 2024

Time	Activity
9:30am	Arrivals, introductions, a short practice
10am	Overview & introduction to the Breathworks Mindfulness Facilitator role and resources
10:25am	Quick stretch
10:30am	Practising facilitating mini-modules in small groups
11:30am	Break
11:45am	Practising facilitating mini-modules in small groups
12:45pm	Lunch
1:45pm	Plenary - reflecting on the practice sessions this morning
2:45pm	Break
3pm	The boundaries of the Facilitator role, good practice etc
3:30pm	Q&A and closing
4pm	Finish

Cost

We're offering four different pricing options to those wishing to join us, and asking participants to pay the highest sustainable amount that they can, so that we can offer places at a reduced cost to those less able to afford a place. 

If you are an accredited Breathworks Teacher, you are eligible for 10% off the full-price Individual Rate.  

Supporter's Rate Pay for yourself and help support one person to join on a Bursary.	£105
Individual Rate Full-priced rate	£75
Concessionary Rate For those in financial hardship who cannot afford our full priced rate (see below for more).	£55
Bursary Rate A limited number of places are reserved for those unable to afford the Concessionary Rate.	£25

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Please note that we usually record our online events both for training purposes, and to create learning material for others. If you do not wish to be recorded, please feel free to switch off your video and/or audio.