As the benefits from daily mindfulness training are becoming more widely recognised, there is a growing demand for courses that can teach these techniques in an easy to understand and practical way to help anyone to quickly experience results even if they never done any meditation or mindfulness exercises before.

In this 2 day accredited certificate course you will not only be introduced to and learn the the powerful Mindfulness techniques that are helping individuals from all walks of life to have more balance and focus in their lives. You will also receive the tools and training to teach these techniques to anyone around you, including adults, students and children.

The 2 day Mindfulness Facilitation course will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms that underpins mindfulness widespread success and application as well as all the exercises that will help you establish your own regular practice and the additional training, tools and resources to successfully learn to self-regulate, lower stress and anxiety responses as well as facilitate mindfulness for groups or one to one sessions.

The course is based on the successful program Mindfulness in New Zealand has been running for the past nine years as well as latest research and techniques on teaching mindfulness designed by the original MBSR members
who trained with Jon Kabat-Zinn.

The trainer. Rita Riccola is one of New Zealand’s leading mindfulness trainers. More than thousand individuals, among them, school teachers, life coaches, psychologists and counsellors etc, in both New Zealand and Australia has taken her 2 day mindfulness facilitation course to date.

The course is held face-to- face and online using the Zoom online meeting platform that we have found being both intuitive and to offer a fluent meeting experience.

Over these two days You will be empowered by the discovery that you can self-manage your thoughts and emotions and deepen the contact with your natural intelligence and intuition.

After completing the training you will receive full documentation and additional tools and resources to extend the training.

The course is accredited with IMMA (International Mindfulness & Meditation Alliance). After completion you will receive a certificate and will be eligible to apply for IMMA membership.

Part of the certification is a 8 week online component that you can do in your own time. This component is part of the accreditation and will help you to establish (or deepen) your personal practice by weekly engaging lessons and keeping a daily journal.
INCLUDING:
A 60 page Mindfulness Training Manual covering eight week lessons in downloadable PDF format.
Guided Mindfulness audios for each weeks exercises that you can listen to on any device.
Videos Recommended videos and talks to watch as a complement to the course

What will you get from this course?

How can mindfulness help?

Understanding how the brain works goes a long way to empowering people to practice mindfulness. Mindfulness ‘teaches’ us how thoughts and feelings affect our state of being and how we are able to train ourselves, intentionally, to observe the activity of the mind without becoming entrapped and start believing every thought the mind produces or be swept away by every emotion felt.

The ability to control attention is one of the key markers of a successful life. Regular mindfulness practices is a proven method to help increase focus and awareness, make it possible to self-regulate and shift attention when caught up in negative thinking and worrying. Mindfulness exercises are designed to train our awareness and the ability to stay calm under stress and turbulence as well as having better sleep and increasing resilience.

This course will provide you with an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms that underpins mindfulness widespread success and application as well as all the exercises that will help you establish your own regular practice and the additional training, tools and resources to successfully guide groups or one to one sessions.
Benefits such as:

• Decreased stress and anxiety
• Better sleep
• Better self-management
• Less reactivity
• Improved mental resilience
• Increased self-awareness
• Better memory
• Increased attention and focus
• Better conflict resolution skills

are common and expectable result from regular Mindfulness practice.

Mindfulness is not new, it is thousands of years old and has been practiced in many eastern cultures as a way of maintaining mental balance against the inevitable distortions the mind generates. Mindfulness has made it to the west for a number of reasons; technology has developed and allowed researchers to study and understand the function of the brain more fully so that we now have an enormous amount of evidence-based research confirming the benefits of regular practice.

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