Mindfulness Teacher Training with Mindfulness Works
Become a certified mindfulness teacher with Mindfulness Works
Learn to teach mindfulness and meditation.
Offer one of Australasia’s most popular mindfulness and meditation courses.
Enjoy unparalleled ongoing support with continued professional and business development and an active community of teachers.
In-depth, in-person teacher training.
On-going professional development.
Extensive marketing and business training.
Offer a #1 Course
The huge benefits you get from this mindfulness teacher training program
You get credibility
Be trained to deliver Australasia’s number one mindfulness and meditation course. Over 40,000 people have completed this course.
You get visibility.
Get an exclusive page on the Mindfulness Works website profiling yourself and the courses you are running in your area. Also be listed as a certified mindfulness teacher and coach. Any coaching leads are passed directly on to you at no charge.
Offer a road-tested mindfulness and meditation course locally
Run as many courses as you like in your local area.
You receive ongoing marketing and business development support.
Participate in regular Marketing Mastermind sessions with other certified mindfulness teachers to share and learn the most effective ways to market your courses, workshops, retreats, coaching and other services.
You receive ongoing professional development.
Participate in regular Marketing Mastermind sessions with other certified mindfulness teachers to share and learn the most effective ways to market your courses, workshops, retreats, coaching and other services.
Join an engaged and supportive teacher community
Join the Mindfulness Works Teacher What’s App Group and be supported and inspired. Get responses to teaching and business development questions you may have, from the active community.
Provide workplace mindfulness training
Take advantage of the growing interest in offering mindfulness and wellbeing training in the workplace.
Deepen your own mindfulness and meditation practice
Enjoy participating in an annual online teacher retreat, as well as having opportunities for other practice sessions. Learn how to leverage your own practice to assist with your mindfulness and meditation teaching. Enjoy the benefits of a deeper personal practice.
Specialist in-person mindfulness and meditation teacher training.
Training Day 1
- The Mindfulness Works Vision
- Developing your own vision for your mindfulness offerings
- The pillars of mindfulness and meditation teaching
- Teaching the Intro to Mindfulness & Meditation Course session 1
- Teaching the Intro to Mindfulness & Meditation Course session 2
Training Day 2
- Teaching the Intro to Mindfulness & Meditation Course session 3
- Teaching the Intro to Mindfulness & Meditation Course session 4
- Developing your business plan
- Developing your marketing plan
- Social media promotion
Training Day 3
- Half day retreat
Offer a road-tested mindfulness and meditation course locally
Run as many courses as you like in your local area.
You receive ongoing marketing and business development support.
Participate in regular Marketing Mastermind sessions with other certified mindfulness teachers to share and learn the most effective ways to market your courses, workshops, retreats, coaching and other services.
You receive ongoing professional development.
Participate in regular Marketing Mastermind sessions with other certified mindfulness teachers to share and learn the most effective ways to market your courses, workshops, retreats, coaching and other services.
Join an engaged and supportive teacher community
Join the Mindfulness Works Teacher What’s App Group and be supported and inspired. Get responses to teaching and business development questions you may have, from the active community.
Provide workplace mindfulness training
Take advantage of the growing interest in offering mindfulness and wellbeing training in the workplace.
Deepen your own mindfulness and meditation practice
Enjoy participating in an annual online teacher retreat, as well as having opportunities for other practice sessions. Learn how to leverage your own practice to assist with your mindfulness and meditation teaching. Enjoy the benefits of a deeper personal practice.
Mindfulness teacher training is delivered in-person, in a small group course.
Initial Traning
Delivered over a three-day period in Brisbane, Australia.
Three day in person immersive training experience: Our mindfulness teacher training is offered in-person over three days. This means you get the immersive, engaging and in-depth training environment that only face to face learning provides.
Four one-hour ongoing supervision: You receive four 60-minute supervision sessions with one of our mindfulness teacher trainers. These supervision sessions can cover any aspect of mindfulness and meditation teaching and training, including your own practice.
Support to deliver your first live four-week course : We assist you to run your first Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation Four Week Course live and online. We set up the course as a special “Intern Training Course” and assist with promotion. You can invite your contacts or people you would like to attend. You get to deliver a real course, live and learn from the experience.
Our mindfulness teacher training is offered exclusively in a one on one environment with one of our lead mindfulness and meditation teacher trainers. All training is offered live and online.
One and a half-hour induction: You complete a one and a half-hour induction with Mindfulness Works founder, Karl Baker.
Four ninety minute course training sessions: You are trained on how to deliver the Mindfulness Works Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation four-week course with one of our mindfulness teacher trainers.
Six one-hour ongoing supervision sessions over six months: You receive six 60-minute supervision sessions with one of our mindfulness teacher trainers. These supervision sessions can cover any aspect of mindfulness and meditation teaching and training, including your own practice.
Support to deliver your first live four-week course : We assist you to run your first Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation Four Week Course live and online. We set up the course as a special “Intern Training Course” and assist with promotion. You can invite your contacts or people you would like to attend. You get to deliver a real course, live and learn from the experience.
Mindfulness Works Teacher Trainers, Glenda Irwin and Lin Ong
Glenda Irwin
Glenda holds professional qualifications in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and a Graduate Diploma in Health Science (Psych). She is a member of NZAPP (NZ Association of Positive Psychology), receiving regular guidance to enhance her practice and professional work. As a Master Trainer Coach with ANZCAL, Glenda leads trainings in mindfulness applications for affiliated coaches.
Lin Ong
Lin holds an M.Sc. (Psych) and has additional training in counselling, social work and coaching. She is a Teaching Partner with the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation UK and a member of their train-the-trainers team training and supervising internationally.
In addition to offering Mindfulness Works courses, Lin facilitates specific research-based mindfulness programs such as Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and the related courses including Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World.
Community support and ongoing professional development
Join a group of certified mindfulness trainers, all committed to supporting each other in being the best they can be in mindfulness and meditation education.
Unlimited one-hour live mindfulness training workshops: Attend as many one-hour Mindfulness Plus mindfulness workshops as you like every year at no cost. Mindfulness Works runs at least three Mindfulness Plus workshops every week.
Quarterly professional development sessions: Two-hour workshops are held every quarter to explore aspects of modern mindfulness and meditation training and course delivery.
Annual online conference: You will receive an invitation to an exclusive annual online mindfulness trainer conference (extra cost to attend this conference).
Annual online full day retreat: Enjoy and learn from a one-day online retreat with other Certified Mindfulness Works mindfulness teachers.
Bi-annual online conference: Every two years, Mindfulness Works runs a two-day mindfulness trainer conference in either New Zealand or Australia. Join your peers in a face to face learning environment for professional development, support, inspiration and fun (extra cost to attend this conference).
Marketing and Business Support
Receive ongoing in-depth marketing and business development support, live coaching and ‘done for you’ promotional materials.
Mindfulness Marketing Mastermind Groups: Leverage the experience of other Mindfulness Works mindfulness trainers to discover the best ways to market your mindfulness course, coaching and workplace training.
Your courses listed on the Mindfulness Works Australia Facebook Page: Any courses you run will be posted to the Mindfulness Works Australia Facebook page. This page has over 50,000 followers.
Mindfulness Works branding and social media creative: You are able to use the Mindfulness Works brand and logo to promote your courses, coaching and other mindfulness training. You also receive the latest social media creatives that can be used in your own organic and paid promotion on social media.
Promotion of your course in the Mindfulness Works newsletter. Your course will be promoted in the weekly Mindfulness Works newsletter which gets sent to over 8,000 subscribers.
Develop a local, personalised and sustainable brand: People want to support local businesses and learn from people they feel they have a relationship with. Mindfulness Works supports you to develop your presence in the local community so you have participants who are interested in continuing to learn from you on an ongoing basis.
Mindfulness and Meditation Offered Differently
Offer mindfulness and meditation based on your own experience and in a creative way that is meaningful to you and participants.
My name is Karl Baker and I founded Mindfulness Works over 10 years ago. My vision for Mindfulness Works is to make mindfulness and meditation as accessible as possible. Our goal is to improve the mental health and increase self-love, self-acceptance and self-compassion of all people.
The course principles of our mindfulness training are:
You are your own authority: No one owns mindfulness. As trainers, we emphasise the importance of participants trusting their own experience and authority.
Self-love as a cornerstone of practice: Our mindfulness training always starts from a place of people being OK and not needing fixing. We seek to have participants realise this in their own lives on the basis of their own experience. We see mindfulness and meditation as a practice that facilitates self-love, self-forgiveness and self-acceptance.
No religion or dogma: Mindfulness is a living practice, is not owned by anyone and is available to everyone. Ultimately everyone is their own teacher, learning from their own practice and experience. Mindfulness Works is not affiliated with any religion or dogma and does not explicitly or implicitly offer these.
Mindfulness and Meditation are experiential: Our training emphasises the experiential nature of mindfulness and meditation. Formal practice is a key part of this, as is attending retreats when possible.
Mindfulness and meditation are creative processes: Just as life evolves, so too does mindfulness and meditation. There is nothing fixed about the meditative or mindfulness experience. In recognition of this, we seek to explore and offer mindfulness and meditation in a way that is informed by our own lives and our present moment experience.
Trauma informed practice: Creating a safe environment for all participants is critical. We ensure our trainers and offerings are trauma informed.
Training Costs and Inclusions
Initial 6-Month Training: $3,495 + GST
- 1.5 hour one on one induction with Karl Baker, founder of Mindfulness Works
- 6 hours course one on one training with Glenda Irwin or Lin Ong
- All course materials
- Facilitator guidebook
- 6 hours one on one supervision with Glenda Irwin or Lin Ong
- Your delivery of the Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation four week course, online, arranged by Mindfulness Works
- Half-day online retreat with Karl Baker
Annual Certification and Course Licence: $995 + GST
- The rights to offer the Mindfulness Works Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation course to the public (payment of $150 + GST per course required).
- The rights to offer the Mindfulness Works Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation course in workplaces (payment of $150 + GST per course required).
- The rights to offer the Mindfulness Works “Awakening to Self-Love” half-day meditation retreat (payment of $100 + GST per retreat required).
- An exclusive area for you to offer the in-person Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation four-week course.
- Your own page on the Mindfulness Works Australia website, listing your public courses.
- Your own pages on the Mindfulness Works Australia website, listing you as a Mindfulness Works Certified Teacher and Coach, with your contact details.
- Survey at the end of every Mindfulness Works course, so you can get direct feedback from participants.
- 10 group “marketing mastermind” sessions per year with other certified Mindfulness Works teachers.
- Four two-hour professional development sessions per year with other certified Mindfulness Works teachers.
- Unlimited attendance at Mindfulness Works live and online Mindfulness Plus sessions (2–4 offered every week).
- Full-day online silent meditation retreat exclusive to certified Mindfulness Works teachers.
- Invitation to the annual one-day certified Mindfulness Works teacher conference (extra charge).
- Invitation to the bi-annual Mindfulness Works in-person teacher conference (extra charge).
Charges per course or retreat you run
- You pay $150 + GST for every Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation Course you run in your area.
- You pay $150 + GST for every Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation Course you run as workplace training.
- You pay $95 + GST for every Awakening to Self Love Retreat you run in your area.
Mindfulness teacher certification application process
Step 1: A 30-minute Zoom meeting with Karl Baker, founder of Mindfulness Works.
Step 2: If you meet the initial criteria, you receive further details about the initial training and ongoing support.
Step 3: We finalise training dates and you pay for your training.
Step 4: You begin your one on one training as well as taking part in the professional development and marketing support.