Teaching Skills Weekend 1
Teaching Skills Weekend 1
During this weekend we teach you how to guide Mindfulness practices, in particular the practice of Mindfulness sitting practice (Intention, Motivation, Settling, Grounding, Resting, Support and Sharing), mindful movement and bodyscan. We look at the rationales for these practices, the language we use and safety issues around guiding these practices. Then we practice guiding each other in small groups and then in our tutorial groups.
We also explore how to lead Mindful enquiry at the end of a session of guided practice. Again we look at the language we use when exploring another’s experience of practice, in a safe way without advising or fixing. We base our enquiry on direct experience by focusing on the triangle of thoughts, emotions or feelings and physical sensations as a starting point for an exploration of habitual patterns and feelings about experience and discuss how and when to bring in teaching points. The overall model of enquiry we use is Insight Dialogue (inspired by the work of Gregory Kramer), using the following steps: Pause, Relax, Open, Trust Emergence, Listen Deeply & Speak Truly.
This course is about teaching from our own practice and so a key element is developing the trust to teach from our embodied presence. We do this by practicing together in small groups, while staying present and in touch with our body and noticing the difference between this and teaching from the thinking activity in our heads that takes us away from our direct experience of the moment.
This is the introduction to teaching skills and a prerequisite for the MBLC teaching skills retreat
Saturday September 5th 2026 9am-5pm
Sunday September 6th 2026 9am-5pm
