Mindfulness Teachers
Association Ireland
The professional body representing qualified mindfulness teachers
Upcoming Events
International Conference on Mindfulness
2nd to 6th August 2024
Join the International Conference on Mindfulness (ICM:2024) in Bangor, UK, Aug 2-6, to explore mindfulness in a changing world. Be part of the discussion, engage with thought leaders and help shape the conversation.
From The Mindfulness Centre
Food for the Heart - The Factors of Awakening: a 7-Day Silent Residential Retreat, August 2024
11th to 17th August 2024
For Mindfulness Teachers and Trainee Teachers
With Jaya Rudgard and Christoph Köck
Members Events
Mindfulness Weekend: Cultivating Joy and Peace
Friday 7th - Sunday 9th February
This immersive weekend retreat is an opportunity for teachers to come home to ourselves, to rest and let go, to connect as a group and to learn how to be good gardeners of our hearts and minds. We will shine a gentle light on our habit energies, to notice what feeds the good experiential states (like gratitude, love, closeness, joy, wonder, peace, stillness etc.) and what may be feeding our unwholesome habits (anxiety, judgement, frustration, anger, perfectionism etc.).
Deep Listening Peer Practice
First Saturday of each Month, 9:30 - 11 am
Every month these peer-led sessions offer us the opportunity to connect in with our community of teachers for a deep listening practice.
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Council Circle
Last Friday of each Month, 7 - 8 pm
Council circle practice has developed and flourished in many indigenous traditions over countless generations. In this time, it's continuing as a way of gathering in-community, in which we bring mindfulness to listening deeply and speaking from the heart. In Circle we take turns to share what stories, experiences, or impressions are alive for us in the moment (or choose to stay silent) in a gently facilitated way.
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The MTAI would like to wish Tony Bates, our distinguished patron, every success with the launch of his wonderful new book.
Breaking the Heart Open by Tony Bates is avaliable in all major book retailers and is published by Gill Books.
Bestselling writer and psychologist Tony Bates has spent his whole career investigating and seeking to understand the lives of others. Here he turns his therapeutic eye on himself and describes the events and people in his own life that have made him the insightful thinker and teacher that he is today – from the traumatic instances of his childhood unpacked over time, to the obstacles and lessons encountered far into his psychology career.
Tony also recounts the stories of the patients that affected him most deeply and informed both the direction of his work and his philosophy as a psychologist, inviting us to reflect on the meaning of our own lives, as well as on the way society supports those with mental health difficulties.
Council Circle with Niamh Barrett and Barry Costello
Friday 30th June, 7 pm - 8:30 pm
Council can be thought of as a ‘regenerative’, community-building practice in which we can listen closely and non-judgmentally to ourselves and others, with mindfulness.
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Upcoming Events
Upcoming Member Events
Weaving Mindfulness into your Teaching
Saturday May 14th 10am-12:30 pm
Topics include:
– Teacher Wellbeing II
– Practical Considerations in guiding mindfulness in school settings
– Resources and Further training
Mindful moment newsletter autumn 2024
Mindful Moment Newsletter Summer 2024
I can't thank you enough."
This thank you is overdue. For me, bookending my day with our online gatherings has been one of the best things to come out of COVID. I think it is very generous of each of you to share your time and skill so consistently over the last few months - much appreciated.
Lovely to see the same faces day in day out - teachers and others - I feel I know you!
Presumably, things will change, but until then - my sincere thanks."
About the MTAI
The MTAI has drawn up guidelines for good practice and upholds these, is committed to the ethical foundations underpinning the teaching of Mindfulness-Based Interventions (MBIs), and supports continuous professional development for mindfulness teachers. The MTAI is a member of the European Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches (EAMBA).
The MTAI is the professional body representing qualified teachers of MBIs in Ireland.
We have been meeting and supporting mindfulness teachers for the last decade and were formally established as an organization in 2018. We are an independent non-profit organization run by mindfulness teachers who graduated from a range of different mindfulness teaching Institutions. Our standards for accreditation are designed to be fair and inclusive and to ensure an appropriate level of capacity for the mindfulness teacher. Our teachers introduce mindfulness in many settings such as businesses, schools, prisons, hospitals, community centres and not-profit organisations.
We support teacher development and professional and personal growth through supervision, ongoing training, connection with colleagues, attendance on retreats and so on.