Mindfulness-Based practice is at the meeting place of contemplative teachings that arose primarily in the East, with contemporary western empiricism, science, and theory. This interface is a rich and fertile ground for investigating human experience, and for understanding the causes and ways of skilfully addressing distress and enabling flourishing. As mindfulness-based programme (MBP) teachers therefore, we need fluency in these divergent disciplines. Importantly though, we do not need a formal training in research to enable us to bring a research mindset to our MBP teaching practice.
This talk will examine how MBP teachers can build science, theory, and research into their practice in ways that are doable, inspiring and growth enhancing for both the teacher and their MBP participants.