Continuing Professional Development - Mindfulness

Breathworks offers a wide range of continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities to support you in deepening your mindfulness practice and teaching. CPD events are created based on feedback from our teachers and students about what would be most useful for them. In addition to this we also feature CPD courses from our partners.

Who can attend?

These events are specifically designed to meet the needs of accredited Breathworks mindfulness teachers, although in most cases we also welcome teachers trained in other mindfulness-based interventions, as well as students in our training programme. Please see details of each event to make sure you meet the specific requirements for attendance.

UK Guidelines for Mindfulness Teachers

Ongoing annual CPD is a requirement of maintaining your accreditation with Breathworks and in keeping with the UK Guidelines for Mindfulness Teachers. This requirement includes completing at least one two-day event per year and participating in an annual residential, teacher-led retreat of at least four nights' duration.

PAST CPD COURSE DOWNLOADS

Some of the recordings from online CPD courses we've run in the past are available to purchase and download. Take a look and take a deeper dive into one of the fascinating topics we've given CPD training on in the past. Read more

Mindfulness Champions Training - Online

Learn to lead simple mindfulness meditation practices with competence and confidence and to apply mindfulness in your work. Read more

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) Informed Mindfulness

This session will be an opportunity to experience a brief background on ACT and make explicit links between The Breathworks Approach with the six-points recipe for self-management provided within Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Read more

Applying Mindfulness to Long-Term Health Conditions - for MBSR /MBCT Teachers

If you are an MBSR or MBCT Teacher this intensive online course will provide you with a framework for helping people with chronic pain and/or long-term health conditions to live well and flourish. Read more

Mindful Movement as a Way to Balance the Nervous System

Take a part in this experiential workshop taking the nervous system as a basis for exploring awareness and movement. Read more

The Ecology of the Heart: A Compassionate Approach to Enquiry (2 parts)

Join us in exploring the potential for your personal practice of mindfulness and kindness to inform your enquiries with participants. Read more

Mindfulness & Compassion at the End of Life Masterclass

In this experiential workshop, Vidyamala and Gail will introduce ways mindfulness and compassion can help staff and patients take care of themselves and others well when facing the end of life. Read more

Mindfulness for Parents of Teenagers (Online workshop)

The normal developmental changes that take place during adolescence, as well as certain current issues in today’s society, often place great strain upon parents. Read more

Latest

Mindfulness for Health Courses

The Mindfulness for Health course is for anybody suffering the effects of health conditions such as back pain, post-viral fatigue, injury, and more. You will gain the skills to manage your condition and the mental health challenges associated with it.

Breathworks Teacher Training Programme

Become accredited as a mindfulness & meditation teacher with the Breathworks Teacher Training Programme. Start your training now.

Mindfulness Champions Training - Online

Learn to lead simple mindfulness meditation practices with competence and confidence and to apply mindfulness in your work.

Mindfulness for Covid 'Long-Haulers'

For those who have survived Covid-19, fatigue and other difficult symptoms seem to be common. This blog gives some hope and some tips for those 'long-haulers' struggling after the virus.

Vidyamala's Micro-Blog: Managing Lockdown with a Disability

Vidyamala wanted to write a blog about lockdown with disability, but has been too preoccupied with managing it recently, so here is her 37-word micro-blog, which says everything she wanted to say.

Mindfulness and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome can be a deeply distressing and disruptive condition. In this heartening blog, Ben shares what learning mindfulness with Breathworks has meant to him and his struggle with CFS.

Mindfulness HEALS during a pandemic

Vidyamala reflects on how she's handled the increasing difficulty of managing pain during lockdown, and explains her approach with an acronym: HEALS.

The Three Pillars Of Excellent Mindfulness Teaching

Breathworks Teacher Suryacitta has been training people to teach for years, and has noticed some common mistakes. In this excellent blog, he gives some pointers to mindfulness teachers and those thinking of becoming teachers.

Confessions of the World's Worst Mindfulness Teacher

Read how Mark came to mindfulness as a sceptical attendee at a drop-in session. He now teaches regularly and has seen the benefits of a mindfulness practice on himself, his mother and his colleagues & patients.

Vidyamala's Micro-Blog - Managing Lockdown with a Disability 2

Last time I used 37 words and I got this comment from Bridget: "37 words - a big relief in the sea of online 'stuff' we're all bombarded with at the moment. Can you make it 36 next time?!" So here's my 36 word micro blog on managing lockdown with a disability.

Mindfulness for Health course

Award winning mindfulness and compassion course to give you the tools and skills to live well with chronic pain and illness.

Three Things You Need to Start Doing to Stay Energised at Work

Turn the long post 3pm slog into a walk in the park with these three simple practices and feel more mindful to boot!

Three Essential Mindfulness Practices for Resilience

We all have good days and bad days, usually determined by what’s happened to us. But what if we flipped the script and started relating to things differently? What if what made a day good or bad wasn’t so much about what happened to us as it was down to how we responded?

Mindfulness on the NHS Frontline

Chris Bu, NHS Psychiatry Trainee Doctor and Breathworks teacher in training, shares what it's like to be working on the frontline and how he is finding his mindfulness practice so helpful: learning how best to look after his own wellbeing so he can look after others effectively too.