Annual festival for mindfulness teachers
Being a Mindfulness Teacher
“What the teacher is, is more important than what she or he teaches.”
Karl Meninger
All presentations are offered centrally online.
Some eamba Member Associations are organising dialogues in-person on a local level as an alternative virtual breakout rooms.
Please check with your Mindfulness Teachers’ Association whether a meeting in person is organised – or, you might consider taking the initiative to get together with colleagues in your region.
The 2022-eamba Festival is a GIFT to teachers of mindfulness practices, yet to organise enough capacity please register here…
Program
Friday 23 September 15:50 – 18:00 CEST
POETRY and MUSIC in the transmission of mindfulness practice.
Sharing by and with Gloria Heffernan and Camilla Genee
How can poetry and music support the understanding of mindfulness principles and deepen mindfulness practice?
Gloria Heffernan
is a poet, workshop facilitator, mindfulness practitioner- shares seven ways of engaging poetry in mindfulness teaching & practice.
Gloria is the author of Exploring Poetry in Presence, written as a companion guide to
Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems by the poets Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby Wilson.
Camilla Genee
is a violinist known for her creativity, gripping performances, compelling repertoire and unique collaborations, Camilla’s music will engage in a dialogue with the poems chosen. Thereby we blend the arts of poetry, musical performance and mindfulness practice.
This unit is facilitated by Katharina Mullen (Moment – Flemish Mindfulness Teachers, Belgium), EAMBA board member.
Saturday 24 September 9:00 – 11:00 CEST
INQUIRY: The art of Inquiry in transmitting mindfulness practice
sharing by and with Tatini Petra Schmidt (MBSR-MBCT Verband Deutschland).
Inquiry we use as an art in teaching mindfulness and implementing teaching points with curiosity and care into our courses.
The gift of inquiry lies in the unfolding force of moment-to-moment experience, leaving our stories behind and focusing with gentle awareness on the present moment. In MBI`s it iswell used after a mindfulness practice, when presenting a new topic and exploring other experiences in between the course meetings.
This unit is facilitated by Sherida Pengel (VMBN, Vereniging Mindfulness Based Trainers Nederland), EAMBA board member.
Saturday 24 September, 11:00 – 13:00 CEST
Trauma Sensitivity – focused on MBRP – mindfulness-based relapse prevention
sharing by and with Eva Amundsen, {Norsk forening Mindfulness-Lærere MBSR/MBCT]
I would like to talk about my experiences with trauma reactions in groups in general.
From my early experiences when it happened without warning in MBSR groups and how I learned to handle (or not handle this).The next step is how I started to work more thoroughly with preparations in intake interviews when I delivered MBCT in a hospital medical health care setting. Ask specific questions about trauma, and sometimes give individual sessions before they start in the group. A short practice in the intake interview gives an idea of how they might react to practise in the group. The third level is the shorter digital group we have developed.
This unit is facilitated by Camilla Sköld (MBTA Mindfulness Based Teacher Association Sweden), EAMBA board member.
Saturday 24 September, 14:00 – 16:00 CEST
PEER REFLECTION / INTERVISION
sharing by and with Stéphane Nau (AFEM-Association Française des Enseignants MBSR).
For AFEM he developed a process for intervision which he will share with us.In this unit the intention is to share a systematic intervision process.
The approach developed within AFEM observes three interconnected steps.Sharing means interacting on purpose of intervision (what does it mean, what for), experiencing the process (describing and living the experience),taking feedback on the experience into account (appreciative feedback).
This unit is facilitated by Eugenio Correnti (AFEM-Association Française des Enseignants MBSR and ADM), EAMBA board member.
PAST eamba Festival – some impressions of the 2020 and 2021 editions.
SCHEDULE (all times in CEST)
Friday 23 September:
15:30 Welcome – Zoom meeting room open to greet colleagues (Katharina Mullen)
15:50 live musical guidance to transition from your activities to the eamba Festival (Camilla Genee)
16:00 introduction of Camilla Genee and Gloria Heffernan: a dialogue between poetry and music
Presentations and interactive workshop engaging all participants.
18:00 Closing
Saturday 24 September:
08:30 Welcome – Zoom meeting room open to greet colleagues (Sherida Pengel)
09:00 introduction of Tatini Petra Schmidt
Presentation and interactive workshop engaging all participants.
10:45 Closing workshop | Body Pause
11:00 Welcome (Camilla Sköld)
11:00 introduction of Eva Amundsen
Presentation and interactive workshop engaging all participants.
13:00 Closing workshop
13:00 – 13:55 Body Pause | Lunch | Zoom meeting room to remain open.
14:00 Welcome (Eugenio Correnti)
14:00 introduction of Stéphane Nau
Presentation and interactive workshop engaging all participants.
15:55 Closing workshop
16:00 Festival closing – involving all participants in sharing poetry and music.
Zoom meeting room to remain open to network with colleagues.