Mindfulness Course Workbook and Journal
£12.00 – £100.00
Please note that this resource is only available to qualified mindfulness teachers. We will need to verify your qualification by checking that you are on the Mindfulness Teacher’s Register or by viewing your qualification certificate before completing your order.
This resource is available in a number of formats:
- Digital PDF – which you can download and print yourself
- Digital Word – which you can download, edit and print yourself
- Printed packs of 10 or 50 booklets, delivered to any UK address
The price of each format reflects the different costs and benefits of each and is itemised when you select each option in the drop-down list below.
This 30-page booklet is developed for all mindfulness teachers to give to their course participants, either before or at the very beginning of a course, and intended to be used throughout the course and kept by participants afterwards.
It serves as a source of valuable information for participants to support your teaching, an exercise booklet with a number of helpful cognitive therapy and coaching exercises and a journal for keeping a record of practice and reflections throughout the course.
The booklet is very flexible and can be used if you are teaching Mindfulness Now, MBSR, MBCT or any other mindfulness-based course, and whether you are teaching a standard 8-week course or a condensed 6-week or 4-week format.
It is ideal for participants in groups but is equally valuable when working on a one-to-one basis.
The booklet includes:
- Information about course objectives and space to note personal objectives
- Introductory information about mindfulness, including automatic pilot, formal and informal approaches, methods of practising and the the 9 mindulness attitudes
- Suggestions for practising effectively at home, including creating intention, creating a supportive environment and managing difficulties that arise
- Essential pleasant and unpleasant experiences diary log sheets
- A number of additional cognitive exercises, including challenging automatic negative thoughts, recognising and responding to signs of stress and developing nourishing activities
- A list of further resources that your participants can explore after the course
- Lots of space to record home practice and additional notes
- Plenty of reflective questions throughout to enhance the learning process
Information is set out in a structured and clear format, making it easy to navigate and a pleasure to use.
The booklet will save you a huge amount of time and effort in not having to create your own course workbook from scratch. It will demonstrate your professionalism and confidence to your participants. The resource is produced to a high quality and fully aligned with what you have already learned as a mindfulness teacher.
Your participants will really appreciate this gift, which will cost you no more than purchasing notebooks for them, but which also contains a large amount of relevant supporing information for your course. It will support your participants to engage more fully in your course and to undertake the home practice exercises and activities you set them.
Click on the ‘Look Inside‘ button to see some of the content.
I hope you enjoy using this resource as much as I enjoyed creating it and using it with participants on my own courses. You may like to read the full description below if you want to know the background to how and why this resource was created.
Description
Why This Course Workbook?
Many years before I started to train mindfulness teachers, I was fortunate to learn mindfulness with a compassionate and inspirational mindfulness teacher, Mat Schencks, who now offers counselling and psychotherapy in Oxford and Milton Keynes. I attended his 4-week condensed mindfulness course, which was certainly one of the steps on my journey to become a teacher myself and eventually a tutor, training other teachers through Central England College.
Years later when I started to teach my own public mindfulness courses, I began using printed handouts and a generic journal/notebook that I gave to participants. It worked well enough but it was fiddly, time consuming to produce and not particularly cost effective. Participants would also complain of mixing up their notes and would often forget to bring their journal with them.
I soon recognised the need for a course workbook and I remembered that Mat had created a lovely workbook for the participants on his course. I managed to find my old copy and revisit what was good about it and thought I could enhance it to make it a more comprehensive guide, workbook and journal. So taking some of Mat’s ideas, ideas from the Mindfulness Now programme and inspiration from the Plum Village tradition and my own creativing, the first version of this workbook was born in 2018.
It was an immediate success. Course participants loved it and it made my life a lot simpler. It was both efficient and effective. An unexpected bonus was that the reflective elements and the spaces for recording home practice made it more likely that participants actually did their practice between the taught sessions.
4 Years in the Making
The workbook and journal has been through several iterations and in 2021, having since begun to train new teachers, I decided to make it available to other qualified teachers. The version I produced in 2021 however was not ideal. There were some copyright issues that I subsequently became aware of and that resulted in me deciding to withdraw the resource.
Finally in October 2022, having addressed these issues and having added new content and having it critiqued by a number of other experienced teachers, I am very happy with the completely new version which I’m delighted to make available to all qualified mindfulness teachers.
Different Formats
I recognise that this is a resource that teachers may want to adapt to some extent, while others will be happy with it just as it is. For most teachers, the generic version of the workbook will be perfectly good enough. It is also something that will need to be printed for any in-person course and the logistics and cost to do this could be a barrier for some teachers.
This resource is therefore being made available in a number of different formats to meet these different needs and requirements:
Digital PDF format – for those who are happy to use the workbook in its generic format and who can print it themselves or are happy to arrange their own printing (this is the lowest priced option, but you will have to meet your own printing costs).
Digital Word format – for those who want to edit the workbook to make it unique to their course (this format carries a small premium to give you complete flexibility to revise and add to the content).
Printed packs of 10 or 50 – for those who want the ease and convenience of receiving the generic workbook already printed and ready to distribute (this appears to be the highest cost option, but in fact is excellent value because printing has been sourced at very competitive prices that you will find hard to beat. For 10 booklets, the price is £4 per booklet. For 50 booklets, the price reduces to just £2 per booklet).