Mindfulness supervision training

Mindfulness supervision training

Are you a mindfulness supervisor looking for more background and skills in supervision?
Or wishing to start supervising?
Become a Mindfulness Supervisor with the international training program.

Join us in the intensive Mindfulness supervision training starting December 7-9, 2023.
Learn more about the place of Mindfulness supervision in the supervision traditions. Develop, refresh and deepen your skills as a supervisor, and learn to work with your practice as a basis, allowing your supervision to be more connected and effective.

With the new international criteria for ongoing education and supervision for mindfulnessteachers, as developed in the Global Integrity Network in 2016, the mindfulness field sees an increasing demand for experienced supervisors.
Supervisors who are steeped in the mindfulness practice, and who are able to support, encourage and challenge their supervisees in their development, deepening their experience and understanding of the work in mindfulness.

FOR WHOM

When you are a senior teacher, perhaps already working as a supervisor, or planning to become one, this might be the program for you. This training welcomes experienced teachers of mindfulness based programs (MBPs), who are looking to develop a solid ground in supervision, while maintaining a mindful holding of the supervision process.

PROGRAM

Supervision is a profession in its own right. Becoming a supervisor is a process that requires time – time where you can develop and deepen your skills in the practice with colleagues. The training consists of 3 three-day modules in the course of roughly 1 year. This allows participants to digest the program at ease, and gives time to practice in between the modules. As with the mindfulness teacher training, this program is experiential. Learning to guide the process with presence plays a larger role than ‘getting the right skills set’. While each module offers theory, background material and skills practice, the sessions have a strong focus on the process, on guiding, and on meeting what is present in our supervisees as well as in ourselves as supervisors. In this program, you learn to supervise, while holding the space of your supervisee and yourself in a mindful way. For this reason, mindfulness practice will also be part of the program.

The first module will focus on the basic skills of supervision and its specific application in a mindfulness setting – either with new, first time teachers or with more experienced ones. The following modules will refine skills and deepen the practice, allowing more space to explore personal topics and themes.

There is frequently a striking parallel between our own themes and those present in a group, often depending on the particular session of the 8-week training. Apart from personal topics, we also look at organisational matters that are important while supervising. While participants can bring in various experiences from their own supervision sessions, the program is overall practice-based.

After Module 1, participants have core skills to start practising supervision on their own. It is strongly recommended to receive peer-supervision from peers in this phase, allowing for feedback and support. Since Module 2 and Module 3 build upon core supervision skills and experience, we ask you to have at least some supervision experience when you join – prerequisities for module 3 are to have had 4 sessions of supervision on your supervision (supra-vision) by one of the trainers in the program. To finalize the program, participants write a reflective paper. For the Certificate program, an additional individual tutorial session is required on concluding the program. When all assignments have been finished and approved, you will receive a certificate.

Each of the modules may be attended separately as well – with Module 1 (Essentials) as the prerequisite for modules 2 and 3. Participants who have attended Module 1 elsewhere are also welcome. Please get in touch with us first.

PROGRAM THEMES

Basics of supervision – contracting and supervision structures – attitude and languaging – mindful communication skills – learning styles – transference, countertransference, parallel processing – working with shadow sides – supporting and challenging your supervisees – anxiety and the inner critic – deepening the practice, refining supervision skills – mindfulness group dynamics and individual processes.

TEACHING TEAM

The international team teaching the program consists of Lot Heijke (The Netherlands), Günter Hudasch and Petra Meibert (Germany) and Camilla Sköld (Sweden); mindfulness teachers, trainers and supervisors with extensive and international teaching experience. Read more about us here.

PRACTICALITIES

The Certificate in Mindfulness Supervision is a one-1-year program consisting of 3 modules of three days each.
Each module may also be taken separately (Module 1 is prerequisite for the others).

Dates for 2023 / 2024:
Module 1: December 7-9, 2023
Module 2: June 13-15, 2024
Module 3: Nov. 28-30, 2024

Times:
Each module runs Thursday to Saturday, from 09:30-17:30 CET (Saturday until 16:30).Check here to convert times to your own timezone.

ONLINE
This program is offered online via Zoom.

Costs:
– €1495 for the Certificate training program. (This can be paid in installments.) The fee includes a manual with handouts and background literature plus an individual tutorial (consultancy hour). Registration for the full Certificate program gives a €75 discount.
– Additional costs: 4 supervisions of supervision.

FREE INFORMATION SESSIONS:

September 14, 2023 at 17:00 CET, and
October 18, 2023 at 19:30 / 7:30 PM CET.

Send an email to receive the Zoomlink.

NB for Dutch participants:
Geaccrediteerd door het Mindfulness Register.
Zowel de gehele opleiding als de individuele modules zijn geaccrediteerd.

Mindful-supervisie

“I warmly recommend this professional training. The program is mindfulness-based. The teachers embody the attitudinal foundations of mindfulness – and so did the participants in our cohort. This provided a safe and open space for me to learn, to dare practising and try out things, and to be myself as a, sometimes vulnerable, human being.”

“Enorm inspirerend om met andere ervaren trainers samen te oefenen en je eigen vaardigheden zo aan te scherpen. De internationale groep is een extra inspiratie!”

“Ein tolles Netzwerk aus erfahrenen Supervisoren für Achtsamkeitslehrende in den Niederlanden, Belgien und Deutschland ist entstanden, das bestimmt noch weiter wächst.”