Teaching Mindfulness-Based Groups: The Inside Out Group Model - Softcover

Trish Bartley; Gemma Griffith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1803880848 ISBN 13: 9781803880846

Publisher: Pavilion Publishing & Media Ltd., 2022

Synopsis

Teaching Mindfulness-Based Groups calls for mindfulness teachers to move from a focus on the individual participant’s wellbeing to a wider perspective of individual and collective benefit, by harnessing the power and dynamics of the mindfulness-based group for the benefit of all.

Mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) were designed to be taught in groups, and almost all participants learn about mindfulness this way. Yet there has been little research into the impact of the group on the overall learning experience and how this can enhance the outcomes for each participant, their community and the wider context. Based on the ‘Inside Out Group’ (IOG) model developed by the authors, Teaching Mindfulness-Based Groups offers a clear way for teachers to understand the complexities of group processes in MBPs based on four key capacities: 1. Inside out embodying (non-judgemental present moment awareness); 2. Reading the group (understanding the theory of group development); 3. Holding the group (cultivating an environment to facilitate learning); and 4. Befriending the group (engaging the heart in mindfulness teaching).

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About the Author

TRISH BARTLEY has been involved in teaching MBCT since its early development in the UK. She is a founding member of the core training team at the Centre for Mindfulness, Research and Practice (CMRP), Bangor University, UK, teaches on the Mindfulness Network’s teacher training pathway, and trained on the Bangor University master’s program for 15 years. She regularly works in Europe and sometimes further afield. She supervises mindfulness teachers, and has taught people with cancer for over 20 years. Trish is the author of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer and Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer. She has long had a passion for working with groups and has a background in community and rural development work in the UK and South Africa. GEMMA GRIFFITH, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer and mindfulness teacher in the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP), Bangor University, UK. She is director of the Master’s in Mindfulness-Based Approaches and Master’s in Teaching Mindfulness-Based Courses at the CMRP. Research interests and publications include group process in mindfulness-based programmes, qualitative research, the role mindfulness plays in parenting, and the adaptation of mindfulness-based programmes for people with learning disabilities. She is co-editor of the book Essential Resources for Mindfulness Teachers (Crane, Karunavira & Griffith, 2021).

Edition details

• Publisher: Pavilion Publishing & Media Ltd.
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1803880848
• ISBN 13: 9781803880846
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240