Level1 Training - Online - 2020/21
New Level I Training Structure – 2020/21
In response the the COVID challenge
In the light of the uncertainty of the safety of travel internationally and also interstate within Australia, the MTI Board have taken the decision to offer the Level I training live online over the next 9 months, with hopefully a shorter residential planned for May of 2021. Over this time, we will engage you in a thorough and rich investigation of the all the areas of skilful mindfulness teaching to build your competencies in the following domains of learning:
- Coverage, pacing and organisation of session curriculum
- Relational skills - cultivating potency, confidence, warmth, engagement and containment
- Embodiment of mindfulness - including presence, vitality and calmness, acceptance and present moment responsiveness
- Guiding mindfulness practices - skills in leading the body scan, awareness of breath, sounds, thoughts and feeling, open awareness, kindness and compassion, approaching the difficult, movement practice
- Conveying course themes through interactive inquiry and didactic teaching - inquiry skills including empathy, investigation, reflection, bringing salience and responding to the person's context
- Management of group learning environment
In the live online program we will use a range of didactic, experiential and small group work. It will provide opportunities for practice teaching/leading with supervision from the instructors. A strong emphasis in the training 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. You will explore the rationale for how mindfulness works for a range of mental and physical health conditions including pain, stress, anxiety, depression and trauma.
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
Eva is a psychotherapist and is in private practice in Sydney. She has been an MBSR teacher with Openground since 2004 and is a founding director of MTIA. She has also designed and teaches the Living with Compassion workshop. Eva trained in body-oriented, contemporary psychodynamic, developmental and relational orientations with the Somatic Institute of Australia in 2000 and trained with Openground and attended the Teacher Development Intensive offered by the CFM with Bob Stahl and Florence Meleo-Meyer in 2012. Eva has also had much experience in teaching mindfulness meditation as pain-management with cancer, HIV and AIDS and has worked in many organizations offering stress and anger management. Her interest in an integrated body-mind approach both personally and professionally has been deepened through many years of practice in insight meditation, yoga, Ortho-Bionomy, Body Mind Centering (BMC) and dance and theatre improvisation.
B.A (Bus) Dip. Couns, MACA II , Somatic Experiencing (SEP), Cert. Expressive Therapies, Cert IV Arch., Circle of Security Educator