MCP Teacher Training

Next MCP Teacher Training online in 2025

Dates

10-15 June

08:00 – 12:00 and 13:30 – 16:30 (Central European Summer Time)

Costs

Teacher Training: €890
VAT is included

What is the Teacher Training about

The teacher training is aimed at people who want to work with the target group of parents in a mindfulness and compassion-based way; be it in a counselling, therapeutic or educational capacity or by leading courses in Mindful Compassionate Parenting.

The training “Mindful Compassionate Parenting (MCP) – stress management and self-care for parents through mindfulness and self-compassion” developed by Jörg Mangold is a preventive course for parents. He has designed it based on the special combination of his experience as a father of a family, from over 25 years of parenting work in psychotherapy with families and in child and adolescent psychiatry, as well as his own mindfulness practice and work as a mindfulness teacher over many years. It is developed on the basis of the evidence-based and proven mindfulness-based formats MBSR, MSC, Mindful Parenting and PNT (Positive Neuroplasticity Training) and is specifically geared to the special needs of parents in everyday family life. MCP is recognised by the health insurance companies as a prevention course and is subsidised, provided that all the requirements of the course management are met.

The training provides the neuroscientific background, an in-depth experience-oriented development of the concept and, above all, plenty of space to practise teaching the central course elements in teach-back groups. Participants receive a teacher certificate as well as a comprehensive print and audio material package with which they can independently offer “MCP – Mindful Compassionate Parenting Courses”. (From 2022, certification will follow the MCP training).

Central topics of the MCP Teacher Training

Autopilot and stress management through mindfulness in the family field
The evolutionary basis of our emotion and motivation regulation in the brain versus the optimisation traps of our modern life, especially for parents
The value of self-compassion versus self-criticism and self-judgement with the highest demands on oneself as a parent
Worry, catastrophising and automatic reaction patterns of parents under stress and the antidotes of calmness and self-confidence
Self-control and dealing with difficult feelings
Classic parenting themes from a mindfulness and compassion-based perspective
The importance of informal versus formal practice, especially for parents
Mindful cultivation of positivity and relationships (from Positive Neuroplasticity and Positive Psychology)
Presence in the parent-child relationship
Meditations on mindfulness and self/compassion
Exercises on regeneration and relaxation
In-depth practice of the MCP modules in small groups with professional feedback:
- The presentation of information impulses
- Self-reflection exercises Guiding meditations as well as accompanying
- accompanying the subsequent group exchange in the Inquiry.

After the training, each participant receives a comprehensive package of materials that can be used to run a parenting course without much extra effort:

It contains a detailed teacher’s manual with a detailed content and timetable as well as supplementary instructions for the teachers based on previous course experiences. In addition, all templates for the course materials and protocols to parents as well as slides for knowledge transfer. There are comprehensive audio files for all meditations.

Questions? Write us to contact@mindfulcompassionateparenting.org, we will be happy to reply!

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