Jack Kornfield – Mindfulness Teaching Curriculum Package 2022

Help you establish and maintain just the right attitude, intention, and mindset while you’re teaching

Help you understand teaching dynamics

Help you understand your audience

Show you how to handle conflicts when they arise

Show you how to help and guide students or clients when they experience difficult emotions

Show you what NOT to do as a mindfulness and meditation teacher

And LOTS more… 

Why it’s important to understand what mindfulness really is, before you teach or guide anyone

One of your primary aims and responsibilities as a mindfulness teacher is to help your student, client, or patient begin to TRUST again… in themselves… in their experience…  in their own inner guidance. In this course, you’ll learn all about the path to trusting again, that each mindfulness student must travel, and how to help them along the way.

Every person brings their experiences, their world, and their filters into their mindfulness practice, and into the “classroom” with you. In this course, you’ll learn the most helpful and effective way you can respond to and interact with what they bring.

Why guiding mindfulness practices is the most important skill for teachers to develop

The pros and cons of working with groups

Mindfulness isn’t just about being present. There are two more ingredients that are critical. You’ll learn these in the course, and how to teach them.

You’ll learn WHY it’s so important to be in the present moment. Many people don’t know the reason, but it’s actually very important.

How to skillfully read guided meditations so your students, clients, and patients get the most from each session, even if you have no experience yet.

You only ever have one goal in mindfulness, and this goal is very different from the goals that most people have. This is one of the challenges of mindfulness, and knowing this can be very beneficial if you want to lead others in meditation and mindfulness training.

You’ll learn the Being and Doing modes and why it’s important to understand how they affect people’s ability to learn and understand mindfulness.

Your state of mind as the teacher and leader is critical. The degree to which you can embody nonjudgmental awareness is a strong determining factor in students’ openness to the teaching and practices.

How to use metaphors to teach and help students understand mindfulness… with real examples you can start using right now.

How to help students see their personal difficulties as human difficulties, and how this can be a crossroads in their understanding and even a catalyst to personal healing.

Why you shouldn’t ‘step in’ and solve students’ problems for them, but rather let them allow their difficulties.. This is a powerful lesson you should not deprive your students of.

How to effectively navigate a group dynamic, and help foster a positive learning experience for everyone, even when negative agendas, competition, and pettiness surface among members of the group.

The Three Elements needed to skillfully and successfully guide a group through meditation and mindfulness practice.

What you can do as a new teacher and meditation leader to help your members be more present during meditations.

The importance of the environment in which you teach and lead meditation, and what you can do to make it more conducive to learning, openness, and trust.

There are two important components of mindfulness practice — attention and attitude. Attention is what to do, attitude is how to do it. Both are necessary for effective mindfulness practice. You’ll learn more about both so you can make sure your students and members are aware and using both components in the right way.

You’ll learn 3 powerful attitudes that create more space, openness, and presence for most people. Teach your members to embody these attitudes and they can experience much different states than they normally do.

How to help students who are worried about having no experience with meditation.

Why space and silence are so important in mindfulness, and a highly-effective way to cultivate them in your environment and in your sessions with students and members.

Every teacher brings biases and expectations into the room. How to deal with yours effectively, and how to be compassionate with yourself when it doesn’t always work perfectly.

Why it’s important to focus on the process, rather than results, and how to convey this to your students and members.

Why balance is so important if you lead and teach meditations… and what things you need to balance… and how to actually balance them.

Questions and prompts you can use with students to help them notice their experience more.

How to make your students feel like they are in the driver’s seat of their own experience, and why this is so important…

Common misunderstandings, objections, and questions that you will encounter as a meditation and mindfulness teacher… and how to handle them skillfully.

Exact, word-for-word language you can use to invite your students, instead of directing them.

The different segments of a meditation session, how to structure your sessions, how to create consistency for students, and how to prepare and systematize things so all of this becomes easier and less time-consuming for you.

And there’s lots more…

You can read these guided meditation scripts aloud for individuals or groups. These guided meditations were uniquely formatted to make it easy for you to read them phrase-by-phrase and line-by-line.

You can use these guided meditation scripts to make audio and video recordings. And you can share these recordings online, or play them during meditation sessions you are leading. You can even sell these recordings, too.

You can use these guided meditation scripts to create courses, that you can share and sell.

You can also use these scripts privately, in your own meditation sessions.

You can download them, print them out, and give them to your clients, students, or patients so they can write their answers and reflections on the printouts with pen or pencil.

You can also give them to your clients, students, or patients as digital PDF files, and they can type their answers or reflections directly into the PDF files, and then save them after they make their entries.

You can use these worksheets as opt-ins, giveaways, and/or post them on your website.

You can use them as inspiration to create your own worksheets.