Group Mentorship in Teaching MBSR

Next session:
9 Saturdays 10AM-12:15PM US Eastern starting Jan 31, 2026
NOTE: Registration is now closed. Email info@eastcoastmindfulness.com to receive notice of the next time this program will be offered.

This 9-session, 20.25-hour program is open to MBSR teachers of all experience levels: whether you’ve taught 1 or 100 MBSR courses, you are invited to apply for a seat in this program. No matter when you initially trained to teach MBSR, or through which organization you trained, hopefully you never want to stop learning—about teaching MBSR and about yourself as an MBSR teacher. Mentorship, and being in collegial relationship with other MBSR teachers, is a crucial part of that ongoing learning.

During our 9 sessions, we will explore assumptions about what MBSR is and what it is not; about what “good teaching” of MBSR is and isn’t; about what it means to practice mindfulness and MBSR; about your personal and professional experience of teaching MBSR; about your personal meditation practice, and more. You will be invited to occasionally practice-teach parts of the MBSR curriculum, and to receive feedback from Rebecca and your teaching colleagues. We will also hold space for exploring what is alive for you around teaching MBSR.

As a participant, you will be expected to—

  • Show up. Your presence and participation matters. Sessions will not be recorded. Our live interaction and in-the-moment bonding will provide the buoyancy for good learning, good community, and good care-taking of ourselves and each other.
  • Practice-teach. While you won’t teach during every session, there will be opportunities for you, with “beginner’s mind,” to teach various aspects of the MBSR curriculum. This will require you to consider what may have become habitual (perhaps even stale) in your MBSR teaching, and explore fresh ways to take the teacher’s seat.
  • Receive and offer feedback. The feedback process is grounded in deep caring and respect for something that all MBSR teachers want—to provide excellent teaching that benefits those we teach.
  • Explore MBSR curricula. Whether the curriculum you trained with is many years old or was developed only recently, we’ll explore MBSR curricula overtly (page by page) and essentially (what can’t be pointed to on the page).
  • Inquire and speak your truth. We will learn from each other if we all show up ready to truly wonder; to speak to what we know and don’t know, and what we think and feel; and to listen deeply as our colleagues do the same.
  • Maintain a daily practice. We will consider how your own formal and informal practices of mindfulness are informing your teaching of MBSR and your enjoyment of teaching MBSR. Are you having fun?
  • Complete weekly explorations. Plan to spend between 2 and 4 hours on your own each week, exploring, wondering, reading and studying, planning your occasional practice teaching, and more.
Prerequisites
  • You have trained to teach MBSR
  • You have taught at least one 8-week MBSR course
NOTES:
  • This program will focus on teaching the 8-week MBSR course, not variations and adaptations of that course.
  • Strongly encouraged but not required: Live participation in the ECM online retreat class held for current MBSR and MBCT students on Sun, March 15, 9AM-4:30PM US Eastern (information will be provided to all Group Mentorship participants).
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Rebecca Eldridge

Rebecca served as an MBSR Teacher Trainer at the Center for Mindfulness (CFM) at UMass Medical School until it closed in 2019, creating the training for the CFM’s own faculty to deliver their first online MBSR course in 2016, and creating and teaching the first online Fundamentals training at the Center for Mindfulness. She worked with CFM trainees at all levels, from beginning training through Certification. She is certified as a calibrated rater for assessing MBSR teaching using the MBI-TAC tool, and co-author of a subsequent tool (MBI-PAT) that has been developed and validated across multiple studies, giving voice to participants' perspective on teaching quality in an MBSR course. She is also a member of the International Mindfulness Integrity Network (IMI), a worldwide group of teacher trainers exploring ethics and standards of mindfulness training programs.

Rebecca's personal practice is guided by her teacher, Pema Chödrön, and she was featured giving meditation instruction in two courses taught by Pema Chödrön: Making Friends with Yourself and How to Live with Compassion and Courage.

This program is limited to 6 participants

Schedule Program Cost Apply

The fee for this 9-session program is US$695.

Registration for the Group Mentorship program is now closed.

Email us at info@eastcoastmindfulness.com to receive notice of the next time this program will be offered.

  • Schedule
  • Program Cost

    The fee for this 9-session program is US$695.

  • Apply

    Registration for the Group Mentorship program is now closed.

    Email us at info@eastcoastmindfulness.com to receive notice of the next time this program will be offered.

REFUND POLICY:
You may receive a full refund if you notify us via email (info@eastcoastmindfulness.com) at least 7 days prior to the first session (this may give us just enough time to notify someone on the waitlist). No refunds will be granted thereafter.

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