The Mindfulness Teaching Guide: Essential Skills and Competencies for Teaching Mindfulness-Based Interventions Paperback – May 1, 2017

Very well written book, well organized. Covers many aspects of Mindfulness. A great resource not only for teaching, but becoming more aware of Mindfulness practice. The only downside is that it does take some time to read, more like a text book.

Gets to the heart of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and offers fine-tuning for the MBSR teacher.

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By far, this is the most helpful book on teaching mindfulness I've ever read. While there are plenty of books on how to practice mindfulness, there aren't as many on how to teach it or that go into details on the experience.What shines through in this book is Brandsma's personal experience and care for others. This is not a dry and heady book: Brandsma sounds very kind and encouraging with just enough examples to feel better prepared after reading his words. Brandsma refers to this as 'heartfulness' as being the key element in teaching mindfulness and it shows in his work.His chapter on 'What the Teacher Brings to the Training' should be required reading for all meditation instructors, new or experienced. The balance between being competent in techniques yet open and willing is a tricky thing to work with and it causes worry in many a new teacher. He compares being a mindfulness teacher to mastering music. One needs basic skill in order to use the instrument but it takes practice and allowing the music to come out that creates the art.Highly recommended!

This book is essential for any Mindfulness teacher or Mindfulness teacher in training. It walks you through all the elements you encounter when teaching the 8-week MBSR course: different learning styles, creating the right learning environment, guiding exercises and meditations, fascilitating the enquiry, teaching the educational topics of the course and the person you are behind your role as a Mindfulness teacher. With great precision and detail yet leaving space open for the personal touch and the unexpected. Rich in examples from Brandma's own experience which make the theory come alive.It is written with true care for the participants of such a training while offering the teacher (in training) all he or she needs to excel at this job. I enjoyed reading this book very much and will definitely come back to it from time to time while teaching my own Mindfulness courses.

This book is simply an amazing companion for anyone aspiring to teach mindfulness or if you are already teaching and wish to deepen your knowledge. It describes with great detail and insight all the ins and outs of the MBSR program, providing a clear guide of the practices, components and learning objectives of each session, tips and best practices on how to conduct inquiry with plenty of practical examples based on obstacles and challenges that come up most frequently for participants, and sheds light on all the necessary skills to conduct the practice of teaching mindfulness. Everything you need to know about teaching mindfulness is in this book, the rest comes from embodiment and experience.

Great and entertaining read for teachers with helpful tips and mindfulness exercises for teachers to use and/or for their students.