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Teaching Mindfulness-Based Groups calls for mindfulness teachers to move from a focus on the individual participant’s wellbeing to a wider perspective of individual and collective benefit, by harnessing the power and dynamics of the mindfulness-based group for the benefit of all.
Mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) were designed to be taught in groups, and almost all participants learn about mindfulness this way. Yet there has been little research into the impact of the group on the overall learning experience and how this can enhance the outcomes for each participant, their community and the wider context. Based on the ‘Inside Out Group’ (IOG) model developed by the authors, Teaching Mindfulness-Based Groups offers a clear way for teachers to understand the complexities of group processes in MBPs based on four key capacities: 1. Inside out embodying (non-judgemental present moment awareness); 2. Reading the group (understanding the theory of group development); 3. Holding the group (cultivating an environment to facilitate learning); and 4. Befriending the group (engaging the heart in mindfulness teaching).
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'Even if this book doesn’t help you become a better mindfulness teacher, which it undoubtedly will if you live inside it and take its direction to heart, you can’t possibly read it without becoming wiser and more skilful in all your human interactions, including, and perhaps especially, with yourself.'
--Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD; Founder of MBSR; Author of Full Catastrophe Living and The Healing Power of Mindfulness
'This book is a delight. Using the inside out group model – embodying, reading, holding and befriending – the authors beautifully describe how the mindfulness-based teacher can approach facilitating a mindfulness-based group with intention and wholehearted engagement. This is a book I will enjoy recommending.'
--Susan Woods, Senior Faculty, The Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Toronto, Canada
'This inspiring book marries theoretical background and up to date evidence with extensive practical experience and personal revelations. I warmly recommend it and hope that it will contribute to our interrelatedness and humanity, not only as mindfulness teachers but also as citizens of a world in social and environmental crisis.'
--Professor Anne Speckens, Founder and Director of the Radboud University Medical Centre for Mindfulness, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Author Biography
TRISH BARTLEY has been involved in teaching MBCT since its early development in the UK. She is a founding member of the core training team at the Centre for Mindfulness, Research and Practice (CMRP), Bangor University, UK, teaches on the Mindfulness Network’s teacher training pathway, and trained on the Bangor University master’s program for 15 years. She regularly works in Europe and sometimes further afield. She supervises mindfulness teachers, and has taught people with cancer for over 20 years. Trish is the author of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer and Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer. She has long had a passion for working with groups and has a background in community and rural development work in the UK and South Africa.
GEMMA GRIFFITH, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer and mindfulness teacher in the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP), Bangor University, UK. She is director of the Master’s in Mindfulness-Based Approaches and Master’s in Teaching Mindfulness-Based Courses at the CMRP. Research interests and publications include group process in mindfulness-based programmes, qualitative research, the role mindfulness plays in parenting, and the adaptation of mindfulness-based programmes for people with learning disabilities. She is co-editor of the book Essential Resources for Mindfulness Teachers (Crane, Karunavira & Griffith, 2021).
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- Publisher Pavilion Publishing & Media
- Publication Date July 2022
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781803880846 / 1803880848
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 29.95 GBP
- Pages240
- ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2022
- Page size18x25 (180 x 250) mm
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