The Mindfulness Teaching Guide: Essential Skills and Competencies for Teaching Mindfulness-Based Interventions

By Rob Brandsma

A Comprehensive Guide to Teaching Mindfulness in Any Setting Mindfulness can help people face life's challenges more consciously through present-moment awareness. Professionals in many fields-including, health care, education, counseling, and others-have adopted mindfulness as a powerful, evidence-based Intervention. If you're looking to hone your teaching skills, this comprehensive guide offers a practical, systematic approach to developing the methods and competencies needed to effectively train others in mindfulness. In The Mindfulness Teaching Guide, you'll learn three essential skills for teaching mindfulness: how to guide mindfulness practice, how to explore mindful inquiry, and how to give didactic presentations. Along with teaching underlying theory, this book also provides practical suggestions, examples, and even reminder lists so you can swiftly put what you learn to use. Finally, you'll discover how your own qualities and strengths can enhance your training. The approach in this book is descriptive instead of prescriptive, offering a menu of options instead of instructions to help you develop your own-style of teaching. If you want to improve the way you teach mindfulness-in any setting-this book will guide the way. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626256160
• ISBN13: 9781626256163
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: New Harbinger Publications
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 9.9"