How To Become A Mindfulness Meditation Teacher

Drawing upon decades of experience in training mindfulness meditation teachers, Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach share with you what they find key for anyone entering the pathway to teaching. This course invites you to consider what qualities, personal experiences and attitudes are important in those drawn to teaching meditation, as well as the challenges and pitfalls that may arise. Learning to teach is a beautiful and transformative process and this course is an essential guide for those wishing to share the practices of wisdom and compassion.

Lección 1: Welcome & Introduction

In this lesson you are welcomed to explore the path of becoming a mindfulness teacher. As leading teachers in the international mindfulness movement, Tara and Jack see the growing need for teachings worldwide and appreciate in you a spark of interest in what it means to be a teacher. Over the next 10 days they will share a wealth of insights and wisdom.

Lección 2: Exploring The Heart Of What We Teach

In this lesson you will learn the basic elements of teacher training, focusing on two key elements: cultivating mindfulness and open heartedness. This session includes core Buddhist philosophy and a profound poem used to remind us that we all have the potential to truly wake up to life.

Lección 3: What Are The Qualities Of A Good Mindfulness Teacher

In this lesson we will look at the qualities that are important to being a good mindfulness teacher and some basic skills that you will develop over the course of the next 10 days. We will also touch on the importance of encouraging students to trust themselves as their practice deepens.

Lección 4: What Background Do I Need For Teaching

Like any other discipline, in order to teach mindfulness we have to first learn it ourselves. In this lesson we will look at the importance of developing your own practice and explore the aspects of your own background that can be useful in your role as a teacher.

Lección 5: What Challenges Might I Encounter As A Mindfulness Teacher

As a mindfulness meditation teacher you will be offering tools and practices connected with the deepest aspiration of human life. In this lesson we will look at the inevitable challenges and issues that arise in the student-teacher relationship and touch on questions around the monetary compensation of a teacher.

Lección 6: How Do I Respond To Students Facing Intense Difficulties

Students bring their whole life into their meditation practice. In this lesson we will learn how to wisely and lovingly respond to students facing intense difficulties including trauma, in their own life or their meditation practice.

Lección 7: The Transformational Potential Of Mindfulness

In this lesson we will explore the potential of mindfulness to transform the way we relate to our inner life, to others and to our world. This is the essense of what we can offer as teachers of mindfulness. This lesson entails both theoretical discussion and a reflective meditation.

Lección 8: Where And Who Will I Teach

In this lesson we will learn where and who you might teach. There are a growing number of areas where mindfulness practice is deemed highly valuable and necessary. There is a huge variety of ways these teachings can be taken into the world. Your opportunities are endless.

Lección 9: What Is The Best Teacher Training For Me

In this course we will look at the requirements and qualities that make up a good teacher training program and what support you might seek throughout the learning process. With the help of a good teacher you can develop and strengthen your own practice, a necessary component for becoming a teacher yourself.

Lección 10: Healing Our World

In this final lesson we arrive at what might be your deepest motivation for teaching: helping to heal our world. One of the benefits of mindfulness and compassion training is bringing what you have learnt to the lives of others. We hope you are inspired to grow in compassion, expression and connection, and dive into your journey of learning and teaching.

Reviews

Very inspiring, so much so it gave me the confidence to try harder and become an Insight Timer teacher. Thanks both of you.
Great duo!

Wonderful course, and plenty of time and prompt to reflect as explore our own hearts. Thank you 🙏

Great course! Thanks for the knowledge and reflections. This gives me a lot to consider for my next steps towards being a meditation teacher

Very helpful guidance for the path of teaching mindfulness

Thank you for all your wise words and inspiration. I feel this is now my path and hope I can inspire others to mediate and be more mindful in their life as it has been so powerful for me 🙏

Thank you Jack and Tarra. It was amazing and accurate journey 🙏🏻

Thank you! A wonderful explanation and introduction to mindfulness teacher training.

Very helpful information that helps clarify and reflect. 🙏

Very informative. it has enable me to realise that at my time of life (75) that my time would be better spent developing my mindfulness skills to enable me to enrich those around me both closely and in the wider community. Thank you. 🙏

Great overview of a need for teachers in our world, and what the broad basis are needed to start on this journey of healing souls and teaching others!

Thank you so much for this course! I especially moved by your inclusion of social justice as a platform for teaching it is such an important aspect of my offerings as a teacher

Good fairly focused review of topic by those who know!

Thought provoking and enlightening in the range of ways becoming a mindfulness meditation teacher can impact self, others and the wider world. Thank you 🙏

So so so profound and insightful teaching about how to become a mindfulness teacher ❤️❤️❤️

I really enjoyed this - thank you for sharing your gifts and insight 💕

Really really beautiful and inspiring! Thank you! 🙏 💜 🌟

As one enrolling in a teacher training program very soon, this is incredibly helpful and exciting in the discernment process. Thank you Tara and Jack always

Thank you so much for inspiring me to continue on my path of teaching meditation.

Thank you for reminding me of my own nature of love and goodness. This (short) course teaches, enlightens and motivates. It is pure beauty.

Very helpful insights and uplifting inspiration. Thank you 🙏🏻❤️