Masterclass: Trauma-informed and effective mindfulness teaching

This workshop draws on clinical research and lived experience to work with trauma in mindfulness-based work.

What is covered?

This training will enable you to identify signs of trauma in your participants and provide practical ways of helping participants manage it. It will help you understand what challenges and adaptations you may need to make to your standard teaching to help support people with trauma histories, AND ALSO WITH NEURODIVERGENCE. We approach the training from different perspectives: clinicians working in the field of trauma, researchers discussing the evidence base for what we know is effective, and service users sharing their experience of what worked and what didn't work.

Who is this for?

This masterclass is for those people working in the field of mindfulness. It is part of the core teacher training programmes. It is open to anybody who is trained or training to be mindfulness or mindful self-compassion teachers. Please note, current trainees on our teacher training courses (MBCT/MBSR AND BRIEF & ADAPTED INTERVENTIONS) are automatically on the attendance list for this masterclass, as it forms part of the syllabus. If this is you, you do not need to book a place.

The facilitators

Robert Marx

Robert Marx is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist and has been teaching mindfulness to patients and staff in the NHS for 18 years. He teaches Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindful Self-Compassion. He has been practising meditation for over 30 years. He is passionate about building compassionate cultures in organisations and about integrating relational and mindful approaches to work

Clara Strauss

Clara is co-lead (Research) for Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion. She is a consultant clinical psychologist, mindfulness teacher and clinical researcher. In her research, Clara is particularly interested in developing and evaluating new forms of mindfulness-based intervention (MBI), especially for those people who may not be willing or able to access MBCT. Along with other members of her research team, Clara has been evaluating MBIs for people experiencing depression, for people distressed by hearing voices and for people experiencing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This research has also included research with NHS staff, university students and the wider population.

Richard Gilpin

Richard Gilpin Richard is a mindfulness teacher, counsellor and cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist. He has trained extensively in mindfulness-based practices since the 1990s and has been facilitating MBCT courses since 2007. He is the author of two self-help books: Mindfulness for Black Dogs and Blue Days (2012) and Mindfulness for Unravelling Anxiety (2016). His master's research on MBCT was published in 2008.

Hannah Rudd

Hannah is autistic and works as an administrator for Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion. She is a volunteer advocate for Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion and also volunteers as a ward befriender in acute mental health wards at the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Hannah is passionate about helping to make mindfulness and Mindful Self-Compassion courses more neuroinclusive and she is currently undertaking mindfulness teacher training with Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion, and will soon be training to become a Mindful Self-Compassion teacher.

Certificates

If you would like a certificate of attendance, you can request this after the event.

Booking

The cost of the masterclass is £75. We also offer a choice of two other options:

£100 – Supporting rate. You can support other participants to attend who are on a low income.

£50 – Supported rate, if you are on a low income and can’t afford the basic rate.