Level Intensive Intensive - Australia - 2020

With Timothea Goddard & Eva Papadopoulo

Overview

This residential Intensive provides an in-depth context to explore a range of didactic, experiential and small group work. It will provide opportunities for practice teaching/leading with supervision from the instructors (usual teacher/student ratio 1:12). A strong emphasis in the Intensive is on the development and integration of personal and professional qualities which support authentic mindfulness teaching and learning. It offers a challenging and deepening process of exploration and engagement with self and others, using the ground of practice as our base. Specific areas of focus will include:

• The rationale for how mindfulness works for a range of mental and physical health conditions including pain, stress, anxiety, depression and trauma 
• Practical exploration of how to work skilfully with the sensations, emotions and thoughts that arise in practice.
• Skills in leading mindfulness practices (body scan, awareness of breath, sounds, thoughts and feeling, open awareness, kindness and compassion, approaching the difficult, movement practice) 
• Inquiry skills (including empathy, reflection, salience and context)
• Relational skills including empathy, warmth, authenticity and potency, curiosity and respect and mutuality
• Embodiment as a teacher including presence, vitality and calmness, acceptance and present moment responsiveness
•  Understanding of group process 
• Refining and deepening one’s own meditation practice

Please note: As part of the Intensive process, you will be expected to be very familiar with each of the mindfulness practices offered in MBSR and MBCT and will be asked to lead them in dyads without scripts.

Refund Policy

• If you withdraw two months before the event start date you will be refunded less your $500 deposit.
• If you withdraw between one and two months before the start date, you will be refunded fees less $1500
• If you withdraw one month or less before the start date, no refunds will be offered.

Notice of cancellation must be provided to MTIA via email and will be confirmed via reply email. MTIA cannot accept responsibility for correspondence that is delayed or for failure of delivery.

In the unlikely event the workshop is cancelled by the organisers, registration fees will be fully refunded. No liability will be accepted for travel, accommodation or other costs / expenses incurred by participants.

Lead Teachers

Timothea Goddard

BA, Dip Psych (ANZAP) Workplace Trainer, Cert V, Yoga teacher (YA200H)

Timothea Goddard is recognised as a pioneer in bringing MBSR to Australia over the past 14 years being the first in Australia to complete the training and be accredited as an MBSR teacher through the Center for Mindfulness, UMass Medical Center, USA; she maintains strong professional links there. Timothea has worked in private practice for 30 years as a psychotherapist, educator and workplace trainer, having trained in humanistic, psychodynamic and body-based psychotherapy as well as comprehensive training in MiCBT, and basic training in ACT, Breathworks, .B, and Mindful Schools. Since 2007, she has been offering MBSR training and supervision for health professionals and others.

She is a long time student of yoga, Aikido and meditation and practices in the Insight tradition. She is the Director of Openground – an Australia-wide network of clinicians and teachers offering MBSR and related programs. She is a founding director of MTI and is currently the Director of Training. She is very interested in the interface of biology and psychology and how mindfulness practice can facilitate the integration between what we experience as "body" and "mind".

Eva Papadopoulo

Retreat Manager and Assistant

Mary McIntyre

B.A (Bus) Dip. Couns, MACA II , Somatic Experiencing (SEP), Cert. Expressive Therapies, Cert IV Arch., Circle of Security Educator
Mary is delighted to bring her care and attention to assisting MTIA students as they make their way through pre and post Level 1 Training. Her personal meditation practice comes from the Insight tradition. She spent much of her adult life in France and then seven years in Sri Lanka before settling in Australia in 2004. Mary is passionate about teaching meditation and also about human change, growth and healing through development of our inner resources. She isbased in Brisbane in private practice as a counsellor/psychotherapist and has a particular interest in somatic psychotherapy.