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Become a certified trainer
Mindful Parenting Trainer
Learn to guide parents through the eight-week Mindful Parenting programme of the Eline Snel Method. Experience the programme first for yourself, then learn how to pass it on.
Who it's for?
For professionals who work with parents and families.
This training is for professionals who want to support parents in meeting the challenges of parenting with more awareness, compassion and choice.
Mindfulness Professionals
For mindfulness trainers who want to bring their experience into working with parents and families.
Therapists & Coaches
For professionals who support parents and families and want to add a structured mindfulness programme to their work.
Educational & Family Professionals
For professionals working with parents or caretakers in education, family support or related settings.
What it brings you
More than a method to teach. You leave with a complete programme, a deeper personal practice and the confidence to guide parents through it.
A complete, tested eight-week programme with a trainer manual and parent workbook, ready to deliver
A deeper practice of your own, which carries over into every other part of your work
A natural addition alongside the children's or adolescent training, so you can work with the whole family
Certification in the Eline Snel Method and a place in AMT's international network of trainers
Inside the training
First experience it. Then learn to teach it.
You follow the full eight-week Mindful Parenting programme yourself before you learn to guide it. That order matters. Parents notice quickly whether a trainer speaks from experience or from a script. Along the way you deepen your own practice, get to know the theory and the materials, and step by step take the trainer's seat.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN:
Each week has its own theme, a core exercise and a clear link to everyday family life. You learn how the weeks build on each other, what each one is really about, and why the order is the way it is.
Working with parents touches your own history, as a child and perhaps as a parent. You learn to recognise transference, meet your own reactions with kindness, and stay in the trainer's role.
Working with the trainer manual and the parent workbook. Timing, group size, the balance between practice, conversation and theory, and what to do when a session does not go to plan.
What studies indicate about parental stress, automatic reactions and the parent-child relationship, and just as important, what we can and cannot claim.
Parents rarely need more advice. You learn to ask questions that help them notice what they already know, to stay with what comes up, and to resist the urge to fix it.
Your own practice is the foundation of everything you teach. The training includes a silent morning and ongoing attention to how you practise between the training days.
How to hold intake conversations, decide whether the programme is the right fit, work with very different family situations in one group, and evaluate a training in a meaningful way.
How to offer Mindful Parenting in your own context, reach parents, work with schools and other organisations, and make use of AMT's materials and network of certified trainers.
THE PROGRAMME YOU’LL TEACH
Mindful Parenting
Mindful Parenting is an eight-week programme for parents and carers of children aged 4 to 16, developed by Eline Snel as part of the Eline Snel Method. It starts where parents are: the morning rush, the argument that flares up again, the moment you hear yourself say something you did not mean.
Week by week, parents learn to notice what is happening in themselves before they react. They practise with attention, stress, emotions, thoughts, communication, compassion and trust, always in the context of everyday family life. Not to become a perfect parent, but to have more choice in the moments that matter.
As a trainer, you learn not only what to teach, but how to create the space in which parents discover these things for themselves.
How it's structured
Eight days. Eight themes. One journey.
The training follows the eight weeks of the Mindful Parenting programme itself. Each training day takes you into the next theme, first through your own experience and then through learning to guide others.
Before you start
These are the conditions for starting. If one of them isn’t in place yet, just contact us.
An eight-week MBSR or MBCT training, completed or nearly completed.
Your own regular mindfulness practice.
Professional experience working with parents, families or in a related field.
The opportunity to work with a group of parents during or after the training, so you can put what you learn into practice.
YOUR CERTIFICATION
Become a certified Mindful Parenting Trainer.
Complete the training and certification requirements to become certified to guide the eight-week Mindful Parenting programme of the Eline Snel Method.
Your personal AMT certification as a Mindful Parenting Trainer.
Your official frog quality mark, showing that you are trained and certified in the method.
A personal profile on Find a Trainer, so parents and organisations can find you.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
What trainers took with them.
Agenda
Find a group that fits.
Upcoming start dates for the Mindful Parenting Trainer groups — in person and online, in several languages.
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What's included
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Learning and support
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Good to know
Questions, answered.
The training is designed for professionals who work with parents and families, such as mindfulness trainers, therapists, coaches and professionals in education, healthcare or family support.
The training builds on your own experience of mindfulness. A regular personal mindfulness practice is important, as you will first experience each part of the programme yourself before learning how to guide others through it.
No. You do not need to be a parent yourself. What matters is your professional experience with parents or families, your mindfulness practice and your willingness to explore your own patterns and responses as part of the training.
The training follows the eight weeks of the Mindful Parenting programme itself. There are eight full training days, each centred around one of the eight themes, followed by a final morning of mindfulness practice in silence. You first experience the programme yourself, then gradually move from observing to practising and leading complete sessions.
The training includes eight full training days and a final 3.5-hour practice morning. Between training days, you complete the same home practice that parents will later do in your own groups, so allow time for your personal mindfulness practice and preparation as well. Next to that you will lead a pilot group with a minimum of 3 parents.
Ready when you are.
Still thinking it over? Explore a little further, or get in touch. We’re happy to help you decide whether the training is right for you.
Explore a little further
Read more about the method, certification and the experiences of other trainers.
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