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 1to1 to those with advanced illness, for over 20 years.

Christina Shennan is a psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher, trainer and supervisor. She is a member of the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) core training team and Module Organiser and Tutor on the Teaching One Module of the Masters in Mindfulness at Bangor University. She works as an oncology psychotherapist providing 1:1 therapeutic interventions across the cancer pathway and teaches MBCT-Ca groups. She also teaches MBCT in a NHS IAPT service in the north west of England. Christina has over 20 years experience of group facilitating and training in health and community settings.

Training in English with translation into French.

From May 30, 2025 (strating 2pm) to June 1 (ending 1pm)

Venue: Enclos Rey – Paris 15ème

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