This two-day workshop is for mindfulness-based teachers who wish to learn more about groups and how to support the rich potential of the group process in a mindfulness context.

Many of us have come into this work with a background in one-to-one work. The skills we have acquired will have many direct benefits for our mindfulness teaching. However, we may find that we continue to teach one-to-one, albeit in a group.

We will explore how to bring this group dimension into all aspects of our mindfulness teaching – using the IOG Inside Out Group model to frame our work - including the orientation and assessment process; guiding practices; leading inquiries; and facilitating exercises and group discussions. In doing this, we will learn how to be present and alive to the three dimensions in the group: that of myself as teacher; that of individual participant; and that of the group as a whole.

We will explore the different stages of the group – namely the forming, the holding, and the ending of the group – and how as group leaders we can best support the learning practice of our participants in this group context – with the key model ingredients of inside Out Embodying; Reading, Holding and Befriending the group .

Key learning objectives

- to explore ways of leading, teaching and holding the process of mindfulness-based groups that enables the rich learning potential within the group to be realised by our course participants

- to find ways of resolving some of the common challenges when leading groups, including managing: a dominating participant; a persistent late comer; someone who is openly sceptical; and/or a participant who says very little

- to consider the different approaches involved with teaching very different sized groups.

Pre-requisites for attending

- personal experience of an MBCT or MBSR eight-week course

- an established personal mindfulness practice

- ideally have participated in a mindfulness-based Teacher Training Retreat level 1, Essentials training or equivalent

- have begun supervised teaching of one or more eight-week courses.

Participants are recommended to purchase a copy of the book Teaching Mindfulness-Based Groups: The Inside Out Group Model, Bartley, T. & Griffith, G.M. (2022). Pavilion Books

Trish Bartley is a senior mindfulness teacher trainer and author - and one of the founding members of the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University, UK – where she led the advanced teaching / groupwork module on the mindfulness master’s programme for fifteen years. Trish has been involved in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy from the beginning and was supported by John Teasdale and Mark Williams (MBCT founders) to adapt/develop MBCT for people with cancer (Bartley, 2012 & Bartley, 2017). She has worked with groups and groupwork training all her working life. She co-wrote Teaching Mindfulness-based Groups (Bartley & Griffith, 2022) and the Inside Out Group Model paper (Griffith et al, 2019). She offers mindfulness-based teacher training, mindfulness retreats and workshops in the UK, Europe and occasionally further afield. She has taught MBCT to people with cancer, in groups and 1 to 1 to those with advanced illness, for over 20 years.

Training in English with translation into French.

From May 30, 2025 (strating 2pm) to June 1 (ending 1pm) in Paris (11è)

FEE : €500 net

(Accommodation, meals and transport are not included.)

To register, please

1. Fill out this online form 

2. Pay the application fee (€50) - non refundable

3. Complete your file by sending your CV (with mandatory photo) and a cover letter - these two documents merged into a SINGLE PDF document whose title will consist of your first and last name. This document must be sent by email to the address formation@association-mindfulness.org, specifying in the subject line "MBP-IOG model - May 2025". 

4. You will receive all the information necessary to pay for the training once your application has been accepted