Description
Enjoy learning all about ‘Mindfulness’, this wonderful and powerful way of being that everyone is capable of achieving. You will gain an understanding of what mindfulness actually is and how it can benefit us in our lives. This life-transforming training will take your current level of mindfulness to certified Practitioner level as we guide you through the essential ‘Mindfulness’ principles and practices. The course will provide you with over 25 mindfulness exercises, meditations and tools that you can use to practise mindfulness for yourself or to use with clients, along with useful downloadable resources. If you are a person interested in helping others, and yourself, then this course is for you!
Mindfulness. An interesting word, a simple word, a word full of possibilities, but what exactly does this mean? Does this mean that I need to have a full mind, or to clear my mind? Does it mean I need to be quiet or to be fully involved? Am I thinking too deeply into this? All of these questions are an example of how strong our minds are, how we can think at a million miles an hour and how having mindfulness can support our whole lives. We are always thinking, our minds are always active, but are we always mindful? Do our minds stray? Can we start thinking about one thing and then get caught up thinking about another thing? If we have many things to do, is it harder to start because we are thinking about too many things that we end up not completing anything? These are examples of how our minds can be so active, but not necessarily focused.
Mindfulness is often perceived in much of Western society as ‘clearing your head of all thoughts’, however, this course will enable you to see that actually the opposite is true. Mindfulness is a ‘fully-conscious’ state of being that enables us to understand our thoughts and emotions, understand where they have come from and also how we can control them so that we do not become controlled by them. We are not our thoughts!
Mindfulness involves focusing on what is happening now, in the present, instead of focusing on our what has happened in the past or our future predictions. It allows us to identify with our past and recognise why we are who we are, but also not to let it define us. It allows us to look positively into the future by recognising that we only have control over the here and now.
“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
Buddha
This Mindfulness Practitioner course will provide you with the tools you need to develop and practise the concepts of mindfulness so that you can teach this knowledge to others using the many exercises available throughout the course.
By the end of this Mindfulness Practitioner Training course, students will:
- Know what Mindfulness means and how it can be used
- Understand some of the history of Mindfulness
- Know the difference between Mindfulness and Meditation
- Understand the key concepts of Mindfulness
- Recognise the difference between Mindfulness and Mindlessness
- Understand the 5 steps to Mindfulness
- Recognise factors that can impede mindful insight
- Understand the 3 ways in which we see and perceive things
- Know that everyone has a different perception of reality
- Understand the importance of perspective in relation to being mindful
- Recognise the 3 levels of consciousness
- Identify the core components of Mindfulness
- Identify the core assumptions of Mindfulness
- Know the blocks to active listening and how we can overcome these
- Recognise that Mindfulness can be used in personal and professional contexts
- Understand the importance of forgiveness in relation to mindful living
- Understand the 3 dimensions of mindfulness – how we relate to ourselves, to others and to our past
- Be given access to many ideas relating to mindfulness and understand how we can use these
- Have access to over 25 Mindfulness exercises and tools that can be used to practice Mindfulness for themselves or for clients
- And much more….
Throughout the course you will be encouraged to explore your own values, beliefs, strengths, thought processes and patterns. You will be challenged to look at your own perceptions and think about why you have them, and how you can live more mindfully when you understand where your thoughts and emotions have come from and how you have control over them.
Dr Siegal and other Mindfulness Practitioners have recognised that:
It takes 90 seconds to hold an emotion if we don’t feed it. You feed emotions by giving them thoughts. By not feeding the emotion, then you don’t embrace that emotion, you don’t accept it. You have the ability to stop an emotion – it only takes 90 seconds.
Throughout the course we will be learning techniques and strategies to be able to recognise when we feel an emotion and to be able to control the thoughts that could feed this, so that we control the emotion rather than the emotion controlling us.
‘Once you become consciously aware of just how powerful your thoughts are, you will realise everything in your life is exactly how YOU allow it to be’.
Bruce Lipton
Upon completion of the course, you will receive an accredited certificate.
Course Price £165.00
This includes full tutor support, all course materials, over 25 Mindfulness exercises and tools and accredited certification on completion.
Course Times
You choose when to start so this will not apply! You have the flexibility to fit this in around your busy life and learn at your own pace with helpful guidance from your tutor as and when needed. You have a year to complete the course but it can be done in much less time if you wish.
Sometimes distance learning courses can seem a bit daunting and students can feel isolated. I want you to know that is not how we work here at Gateway. Our students are part of our family and we love working with them and supporting them throughout their course.
Venues and Tutor Info
Our Venues
You have chosen a distant learning online training course, this means you can work from home at your own pace and you do not need to attend one of our venues.
Our Tutors
Taking a distance learning course with Gateway, you have peace of mind that you will be training with a long-established company, whose training courses are recognised and passed by the top professional bodies ensuring quality training and courses written by experienced tutors.
Our tutors have a wealth of knowledge and are passionate and caring with great after-care and help where needed. All tutors are experienced in dealing with all different levels of skills and are happy to help with any questions you may have by phone or email as you go along.
All Gateway tutors hold a professional teacher training qualification (often the PTLLS level 3 or 4 or equivalent) and have also been a therapist for many years as well as a trainer so you know you are in good hands if you require any help from them with regard to the distance learning course you have chosen.
Prices and Dates
Course Price: £165
You can book safely on our web site 24 hours a day with our safe and secure on-line payment system. You can use a debit or a credit card.
You will only have to pay a small deposit to secure your place, the first instalment of the balance is required to be paid before you can gain access to this distance learning course, for the more expensive online courses you can pay the balance in one go or in two instalments.
All our training course prices are inclusive of VAT so no hidden charges!
Dates
Distance learning online courses are available to book whenever you are ready – you do not need to start straightaway if you do not want to and you can learn at your own pace with the tutor available by email if you need to ask any questions. You have a year to complete the course but it can be done in much less time if you wish.
Accreditation and Entry Requirements
The Prerequisite/Requirements for booking this course
None
Anyone over the age of 16 may sign up to our distance learning courses, please note anyone under the age of 18 their parents are asked to book their course for them or an adult over the age of 18. Also please note that 3rd party insurance cover may not be accepted under the age of 18. We advise you check before you book if under the age of 18.
Course Approval and Accreditation
Often up to 500 CPD course points are awarded for distance learning courses – please check with whom you are registered for their guidelines on how many points they award for distance learning courses as they all differ.
Accredited and Approved by the Professional Organisations – ThiinkTree, FHT (as a short course), The Guild, IPHM, ACHH and WMA
Upon completion of the course, you will receive an accredited certificate.
Contact
E: kate@gatewaytutor.co.uk
T: 07711994346