London – Meditation: meditation teacher training courses

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Albert G. Tobler, AC accredited
Susann Herrmann, Dipl. Psych. (MA)
Founders of London Meditation

A student went to his meditation teacher and said, "My meditation is horrible! I feel so distracted, or my legs ache, or I’m constantly falling asleep. It’s just horrible!"

"It will pass," the teacher said matter-of-factly.

A week later, the student came back to his teacher. "My meditation is wonderful! I feel so aware, so peaceful, so alive! It’s just wonderful!"

"It will pass," the teacher replied matter-of-factly.

Meditation Teacher Training Course
Tier One and Two

at the home of London Meditation:
The Penthouse, 89 – 95 Parkway, Camden Town, NW1 7PP

You can’t do meditation. Meditation happens. Therefore you cannot teach meditation. But you can enable/coach people to be prepared for the moment when meditation happens. A meditation teacher/coach is an experienced practitioner of meditation and knows how to share this experience effectively.

The Meditation Teacher Training is a two tier approach:

Tier One: The AwarenessCoaching Module
provides you with the professional skills and knowledge as a coach.

Tier Two: The Meditation Teacher/Coach Module
gives you the in-depth content of your coaching speciality – meditation.

But one thing is key – before you even think about to become a meditation coach you have to establish you personal meditation practice; if you not have already.

That would be Tier Zero!
For example: to start with the Introductory Meditation Course and than continuing with the Meditation Practice Group, the MBSR or MBCT Course and the Mindfulness Urban Retreat Days...

Tier One: The AwarenessCoaching Module

What is AwarenessCoaching?

The course provides you, during the self-experience based AwarenessCoaching Foundation Training (ACFT), with the skills and knowledge to act, after successful completion, professionally as a certified coach.

Psychological competencies for coaching are fundamentally grounded in awareness – both self awareness and awareness of others.

The ACFT course is structured to provide a greenhouse for awareness, growth and self-responsibility.

Open awareness means attention without tension, back to your senses, a relaxed kind of watchfulness, just seeing, not making an effort, not striving or even judging; an effortless awareness.

Our coaching approach helps you understand what works and doesn’t work in achieving your coachee’s desired goals. Sharpened perception and heightened awareness allows you to concentrate on what’s really important to you – and cope better with the things that seem to get in your way. Your desired outcomes become more achievable through open awareness and greater clarity.

The unique composition from...

Education about the psychological background that shows the links between thinking and feeling, plus supportive tools and useful methodologies such as GROWTH, PESTLE, SWOT, SWAN, SMART, Gestalt and Systemic approaches, NLP, HistoGram, active listening and the art of asking questions (only to name a few...) in order to discover the hidden solution – an approach we call introspection.

Insights gained by looking inside (using non-religious meditative techniques) for the emotional and body oriented aspects to re-encounter with your true authenticity (you know – Authenticity is sexy!)...

...and having fun – because being "life positive" means live consciously a life of success and satisfaction (self-actualization)!

How will AwarenessCoaching be imparted?

There will be...

lectures, group work and plenum discussions on the 3-day intensive training weekend, the two full study intensive days (on Saturdays) and the 3-day colloquium weekend at the end of the training (min. 68 hours of class room tuition in total).
reading of recommended supporting literature.
practising with the newly taught coaching tools and techniques during the weeks at home with yourself (self-coaching), friends, colleagues (peer-coaching).
writing reports about the practise experience
and get feed-back from your trainer (supervision) using email exchanges and telephone coaching between the monthly study intensive days.

Highly participatory, supportive and structured, the ACFT will provide you with more than the necessary knowledge and skill required to...

act responsible and professionally as coach,
to fulfil your (clients’) coachees’ expectations,
deliver on and above industry level and professional standards,
meet the needs of the AC’s course recognition criteria,
the first step towards the AC accreditation.

The next course starts in May 2012 and runs over 3 months.

Your Training Supervisor

Albert G. Tobler

Association for Coaching (AC) accredited executive coach
Member of the AC Accreditation Assessor Team
Member of the blackswan executive coaching team
30 years of international work experience in Learning and Development
Co-founder of London Meditation and the London Coaching Team
Developer of AwarenessArchitecture, Coaching based on introspection and meditative techniques as well as MbM-Management by Meditation™

AwarenessCoaching Module

Venue:
The Penthouse (Flat 8), 89 – 95 Parkway, Camden Town, NW1 7PP
(Street-map please see here).

Dates:

Training Spring 2012:
ACFT start weekend: May Sat 05 / Sun 06 / Bank Holiday Mon 07
Study Day One: June Sat 09
Study Day Two: July Sat 07
Colloquium weekend: July Fri 20 / Sat 21 / Sun 22

Training Autumn 2012:
ACFT start weekend: October Fri 05 / Sat 06 / Sun 07
Study Day One: November Sat 03
Study Day Two: November Sat 24
Colloquium weekend: December Fri 14 / Sat 15 / Sun 16

Cost for tier one:
Basic Offer: course without one2one sessions – £ 1,500 plus VAT
Premium Offer: course incl. 3 one2one sessions – £ 1,850 plus VAT

Tier Two: The Meditation Teacher/Coach Module

In tier two, Albert G. Tobler (AC accredited) and Susann Herrmann (CPsychol., MA) guiding/mentoring/supervising experienced meditation practitioners with certified coaching skills on their way to apply and teach meditation as awareness tool. They impart the science behind, the psychological recognitions and its benefits for personal und corporate growth.

Content of the Meditation Teacher/Coach Module

You will be introduced to and deepening your personal experience in as many meditation techniques as possible (self-experience),
gain a in-depth understanding of the science behind meditation and mindfulness in particular (academic/scientific background),
learn to apply supportive factors in creating a meditative climate and how to introducing meditation to newcomers (operational framework),
how to respond to questions about meditation professionally and information presentations with feedback sessions (applied marketing).

Your Training Supervisors

Albert’s meditation practice began in 1975 as part of his education as deacon. He studied and practiced meditation in Christian, American native Indian and eastern communities (For more details please see tier one).

Susann has been meditating for more than 17 years and deepens her regular meditation practise by attending various retreats, trainings and groups such as:

Mindfulness Training Retreats with Jon Kabat-Zinn
(MBSR in Mind-Body-Medicine, Mindfulness in medicine and psychology)
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) Training Retreats
with Mark Williams and John Teasdale
Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Training Retreats:
Graduated from the Teacher Development Intensive in MBSR and the Intensive Residential MBSR Practicum at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (the home of Jon Kabat-Zinn)
Mindfulness Training Retreats
with Saki Santorelli, Christina Feldman, Sharon Salzberg and John Peacock
Insight Dialogue Retreats with Gregory Kramer
CBT Trainings with the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre
ZEN Meditation Retreats with Martine and Stephen Batchelor
Enlightenment Intensive groups at the Dan-Casriel-Institut, Germany
Awareness Intensive groups at the OSHO Multiversity, Pune, India
Gurdjieff-Movements Retreats with Jivan Sunder
Intensive Satsangs with Dolano, India
OSHO Active Meditations at the OSHO Multiversity, Pune, India
AUM Meditation/Social Meditations at the Humaniversity, Netherlands

Meditation Teacher/Coach Module