How can I find a well trained MBCT therapist?

Through our relationship with Mindfulness-Based Helping Association in Taiwan, the Oxford Mindfulness Centre is working to achieve its goal of training a new generation of mindfulness teachers across the world. Professors Willem Kuyken and Yen-Hui Lee reflect on offering MBCT training in Taiwan.

Following a review of its training offerings for aspiring MBCT teachers, the OMC has created a revised and updated training pathway.

In 2017 a partnership between the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, led by Professor Willem Kuyken, and Mente Aberta Centre, led by Professor Marcelo Demarzo, was initiated with the aim of implementing and propagating the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in Brazil.

For the first time since 2004, when MBCT was first recommended by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, there is an England-wide training programme for MBCT teachers.  This represents the realisation of a significant part of the 2015 Mindful Nation UK recommendations around health and is something we hope will be continued and scaled up in coming years. 

Ser Integral: Portuguese Center for Mindfulness is now providing MBCT training in partnership with the OMC

As a teacher begins to put what they have been learning through personal mindfulness practice and training into teaching – mindfulness-based supervision (MBS) is the space with the help of another to explore teaching and continue to build competence and confidence.

Until last year, we have been offering two different non-academic ways to train as a teacher: the 12-month “Cohort” route, and the “Modular” route. Over the next 12 months, we are phasing out the Modular teacher-training route, and after Spring 2023, this Modular teacher training will be discontinued completely.

Until 2021, we had been offering two different non-academic ways to train as a teacher: the 12-month “Cohort” route, and the “Modular” route. If you have completed some (but not all) modules and workshops for the Modular training route, please read this blog carefully.

The OMF are excited to announce a new partnership with the Korean Centre for Mindfulness (KCFM).  Below is a note from KCFM’s founder and director Dr Heyoung Ahn.