Mindfulness-Based Approaches MA/MSc COURSE DURATION Compulsory Modules: This is a part-time Masters programme, with • Foundation in Mindfulness-Based Approaches most of our 30-credit modules taught over five This module integrates deepening your weekends, spread across the academic year. The personal experience of mindfulness practice full Master’s degree can be completed in 3 years, with a theoretical underpinning of mindfulness. or up to a maximum of 5 years. • Research Module ENTRY REQUIREMENTS This module helps you prepare for your thesis. Applicants will normally have the following: Content includes learning how to read and an initial degree or recognised equivalent critique a research paper, designing your qualification, as well as personal experience research project, as well as equipping you of mindfulness practice in the form taught in with a knowledge of the body of research on Mindfullness Based Approaches (MBAs). We also Mindfulness-Based Approaches. ask that you have attended an 8-week MBSR or MBCT course. • Thesis Module A research thesis of up to 20,000 words COURSE DESCRIPTION presenting an individual research project Our teaching is delivered in the interactive, conducted on a topic relevant to Mindfulnessparticipatory, collaborative style used when Based Approaches. teaching mindfulness-based approaches in other contexts. There is an option to take modules Optional Modules (please see our latest online that will lead you to gain ‘The Certificate of prospectus for details): Competance in Teaching MBSR/MBCT’. Which • Teaching 1 is currently the highest teacher UK certification • Teaching 2 available. • The Buddhist Background to MindfulnessBased Courses The MSc/MA in Mindfulness-Based Approaches • Mindfulness and the Brain is designed to provide you with strong • Assessed Teaching Practice experiential and theoretical knowledge in MBAs as a basis for professional practice, teaching, and research in this area.
RESEARCH LINKS/LINKS WITH INDUSTRY The academics involved with this programme have extensive teaching and research links with external bodies, particularly in connection to implementation of mindfulness within contexts such as health care and social care, education and workplace. These links are fully utilised in ensuring the programmes are relevant to the varied contexts that graduates will enter. CAREER PROSPECTS This course could enable you to develop your career in a number of ways. Many students intergrate mindfulness in their professional life and some develop buisnesses and teach mindfulness full-time. Students may opt to go on to further postgraduate study leading to a PhD. For qualified health, social care or education professionals, the course offers an exciting opportunity for continuing professional development. For further course details, please see: www.bangor.ac.uk/go/pg/psychology
The curriculum is designed to extend your personal experience of the practice of mindfulness, knowledge of the growing field of MBAs, and skills and understanding in teaching these.
Teaching Mindfulness-Based Courses MA COURSE DURATION PgDip: 4-5 years part-time. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS Applicants will normally have the following: an initial degree or recognised equivalent qualification, as well as personal experience of mindfulness practice in the form taught in Mindfullness Based Approaches (MBAs). We also ask that you have attended an 8-week MBSR or MBCT course. COURSE DESCRIPTION This course has been designed to give a strong experiential and theoretical knowledge base, together with a full training, in teaching Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) or Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) within the student’s own professional context. For qualified health, social care or education professionals it gives the opportunity to gain both an academic award, and in addition a Certificate of Competence in Teaching MBSR/MBCT, which is awarded by the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, internationally acclaimed for standards of excellence in this field.
the programme gives students the opportunity to gain in-depth levels of understanding and practice in teaching the 8- week mindfulness course; also to be assessed on practical skills learned within the teaching group, as well as on their understanding and skills in critical analysis of the theories and rationales underlying mindfulness-based courses. In the final module, Assessed Teaching Practice, students are assessed through their recordings of teaching a mindfulness-based course within their own professional context, as well as through written work. Compulsory Modules: • Foundation in mindfulness-based approaches This module integrates personal experience of mindfulness practice with a development of understanding of the rationale MBAs. • Teaching 1 This module develops core skills and understanding in the delivery of MBAs. • Teaching 2 This module involves further development of skills and deepening of understanding in delivering MBAs.
The course programme consists of four compulsory modules all of which have to be taken sequentially over four years, the first three • Assessed Teaching Practice being delivered over five weekends per year, In this module you will engage in a developwhile the teaching element of the final module is mental process that integrates and builds on given in a 7-day residential block. previous personal, theoretical and skills-based learning in mindfulness issues. The first year (Foundation module) is used to develop and deepen your own personal mindfulness practice and to learn about key theories that underpin mindfulness. From then,
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Optional Modules: • Buddhist Background • Mindfulness and the Brain • Mindfulness and Pain and Illness • Research RESEARCH LINKS/LINKS WITH INDUSTRY The academics involved with this programme have extensive teaching and research links with external bodies, particularly in connection to implementation of mindfulness within contexts such as health care and social care, education and workplace. These links are fully utilised in ensuring the programmes are relevant to the varied contexts that graduates will enter. CAREER PROSPECTS This course gives you full training to become an MBSR or an MBCT teacher within your own professional context. You have the opportunity to gain the highest mindfulness teaching qualification currently available in the UK; the Certificate of Competence in Teaching Mindfulness-Based Courses. Many students intergrate mindfulness in their professional life and some develop buisnesses and teach mindfulness full-time. For further course details, please see: www.bangor.ac.uk/go/pg/psychology