Impact of Mindfulness-Based Teacher Training on MBSR Participant Well-Being Outcomes and Course Satisfaction
Mindfulness June 6, 2017 Pauline Eva Ruijgrok-Lupton, R. Crane, D. Dorjee
A pilot study of 9 teachers and 31 participants in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) courses found that participants taught by teachers who completed an additional year of mindfulness-based teacher training and assessment showed significantly larger gains in well-being and reductions in perceived stress. No correlation was found between participant outcomes and teachers' mindfulness-based teaching and meditation experience. The results suggest that higher levels of formal teacher training, rather than accumulated experience, may be linked to better participant outcomes, highlighting the need for further research with larger samples.