The Mindful Parenting & Teaching Trainer Course is a specialized, year-long program in the Eline Snel Method. During this course, you will learn how to deliver a practical and compassionate 8-week mindfulness training to parents, (colleague) teachers, and healthcare professionals.

The focus is on self-care, stress management, and emotion regulation, enabling participants to handle the challenges in parenting and education with greater awareness and resilience. You will learn not only how to convey the content of the training but also how to support parents and professionals in integrating mindfulness into their daily lives.

This course combines a solid theoretical foundation with extensive practical experience, so you can deliver confident and impactful training sessions. Whether you work in education, healthcare, or coaching, this course will help you contribute to a more mindful, resilient, and relaxed society.

  • Course to become a Mindfulnes Parenting & Teacher Training

    This specialized course to become a Mindfulness Trainer for parents, teachers, and healthcare professionals addresses a growing need: learning to work and parent with attention, calm, and resilience.

    The pressure in families and classrooms is increasing. Children and adults alike are experiencing more and more stress due to high expectations, stimuli, and a constant stream of tasks and responsibilities. The 'on button' is always on, but where is the 'pause button'? Mindfulness helps to deal more consciously with these challenges and brings calm to the dynamics of parenting and education.

    Good education and parenting go beyond the transfer of knowledge. They form the basis for how we treat ourselves and others. Children need inner calm and attention to learn and develop optimally. As a parent or professional, you also need that calm to guide children with compassion and clarity.

  • Eline Snel Method®

    The Eline Snel® Method is universal, practical, complete, and compassionate. Eline developed all the training courses for children, young people, and professionals who work with children and young people, in practice. You can feel this in everything. The roots of both the course and the development of the Eline Snel Method lie in Eline's 30 years of experience as a therapist, mindfulness and compassion trainer, and come to life together with the age-old wisdom of the Vipassana meditation tradition.

Course Mindfulness Youth Trainer

During the Mindful Parenting & Teaching Trainer course, you will learn how to deliver the specialized eight-week Mindfulness training to parents and professionals who work with children. Eline Snel developed this training in practice over four years. The training is now given to parents by many mindfulness teachers and to colleagues at school by trained teachers. But also by child psychologists/psychiatrists to their colleagues and/or parents of the children who indicate that they would like this.

Course content

During the course year, we will cover various themes. Below you will find a brief explanation of the content of the Course to become a Mindful Parenting & Teaching Trainer.

During the course, the following will be discussed in more detail:
  • The three most important basic psychological needs of every human being
  • From DOING to BEING: how do you do that?
  • Reflection on personal experiences from one's own childhood
  • The courage to feel feelings and recognize the influence of feelings and thoughts on behavior
  • From impulsivity to awareness of (automatic) behavior. What important role does attention training play in this?
  • Feeling boundaries and your (un)conscious reaction to them
  • Working with Mindfulness qualities in parenting, education and mental health care
  • Applying the theme of stress in the eight-week program.
  • Attention to the physiology of stress and stress-related behavior.
  • Practicing inquiry
  • Communication: awareness of old patterns in conflict situations. Practicing “tolerating nagging”. Awareness of possible new styles of communication
  • Quality time and trust: what does this mean in parenting, education and care?
  • The importance of compassion and self-compassion in parenting and working with children
Recommended reading

We advise you to read the following books before and during the course:

  • Reading the books Sitting Still Like a Frog, The Little Frog and Giving Space & Staying Close by Eline Snel
  • Reading The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel
  • Reading Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Myla Kabat-Zinn

For whom?

This course is intended for professionals who work in education, healthcare, or are otherwise professionally involved in the upbringing of children or care issues within parenting (Mindful Parenting). In addition, the course is suitable for mindfulness teachers who want to guide parents in integrating mindfulness into their parenting and daily lives. Whether you are a teacher, healthcare professional, coach, or mindfulness trainer, this course will help you support parents and educators with more attention, resilience, and balance.

Learning outcomes of the Mindful Parenting and Teaching Trainer Course

Main learning outcome:

  • After certification, the participant can independently carry out a mindfulness training according to the principles of the Eline Snel Method for parents, teachers and professionals who work with children, at school, in private practice, or in their own institution. 

Sub-learning outcomes:

  • The participant knows the structure, composition, and essence of the lessons in the Eline Snel Method and the trainer's manual, and can follow these in practice.
  • The participant knows the art of inquiry and can conduct conversations with adults based on this theory;
  • The participant understands the importance of (self-)compassion and the dangers of transference, and can apply this knowledge in the lessons.
  • The participant can name the effects of mindfulness in adults and their brains.

Study load

The course lasts one year. During 8 teaching days and 1 follow-up day spread over this year, you will learn everything you need to start with a Mindful Parenting & Teaching training. Between the 8th lesson and the follow-up day (day 9), you will give a pilot training and write your final report. On the 9th day, you will receive your certificate if you have completed the pilot and the report positively.

The course to become a Mindful Parenting & Teaching Trainer, Eline Snel Method includes:

  • 70 contact hours during the course
  • 80 hours are spent preparing the teaching materials and giving an eight-week pilot training to adults in your target group
  • You will spend 40 hours reading the associated literature.
  • 1x a supervision session of approximately one hour via video calling.
  • You need 20 hours for the preparations and writing your final report

What do we expect from you?

Just as you expect commitment and compassion from us, we expect the same from you. To obtain the certificate, it is therefore important that you meet the following condition:

  • 100% attendance of all training days
  • A supervision session (mandatory) to monitor and deepen your personal learning process.
  • Giving a pilot course in your own target group (to a minimum of three or more adults who are not family members)
  • Writing a report about your pilot experiences
  • After certification, make the 'kikkerkeurmerk' (frog quality mark) visible on all your own PR material and website

Costs Course Mindful Parenting and Teaching Trainer

The costs for this one-year Mindful Parenting & Teaching Trainer course are €1995. This amount includes all the necessary materials for following the course and 9 teaching days. During the training days, coffee, tea and something tasty are included. A delicious lunch is also provided every day!

Location

Training sessions take place at Buitenplaats de Burgwal, Arnhemseweg 78, 3832 GN Leusden

Condition for participation

  • Completion of an eight-week MBSR or MBCT training
  • Completion of a silent retreat of five consecutive days, prior to or within two years after the course

Working with children/youth and/or parents in education, mental healthcare, regular healthcare or private practice

Certification and the frog quality mark

Certification as a Mindful Parenting & Teaching Trainer in the Eline Snel Method takes place after you have met all the conditions.

Start dates

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