Mindfulness for Busy Modern Lives
Become a Certified Mindfulness & Meditation Teacher
Would you like to confidently share meditation & mindfulness sessions with others?
My next ‘Mindfulness For Busy Modern Lives’ live group programme starts on Monday 17th February 2025. Sign up now with an early bird discount of £50! Payment plans available from £39.50/month…
Don’t want to wait until Feb 2025 to study with me? Prefer to study at your own pace?
I have 2 NEW study options available:
Self-paced course: So many of you have been asking for this, so I am delighted to offer the course on-demand. You can study the 8 sessions on a day and time that best suit you and at a pace that works for you too. You get all the same course content, the midway 1-2-1, the final 1-2-1 and an opportunity to share practice meditations with me throughout the programme. All the exact same course material, but you can study on your terms. Sign up here
1-2-1 course: If you want a more personalised experience and a little more accountability to help motivate you through the course - I am also teaching the programme on a 1-2-1 basis. We meet via zoom for the 8 sessions and I teach the course live to you 1-2-1. Sign up here
Find out more about the programme below:
Welcome to Mindfulness for Busy Modern Lives…
Become a Certified Mindfulness & Meditation Teacher with a course designed so you can support people to find a little peace and calm in their all too busy, always ‘on’, frantic lives.
Mindfulness For Busy Modern Lives is an 8-week online course which will give you the essential knowledge, skills and confidence to deliver your own meditation and mindfulness sessions and provide you with accreditation as a Mindfulness & Meditation Teacher. It is led by me - 10 of Zen owner - Lou Barton.
The course is worth 30 hours of CPD (approved by the UK & International Health Coach Association) and the course is also fully accredited by The Complimentary Medical Association.
Mindfulness for Busy Modern Lives is designed to help you support those that feel short on time, and like they have no time for self-care - but know they need to up their 'me time' and try and stress a little less…whether it’s overwhelmed mums, time-poor professionals or people that generally feel stressed-out, and a bit frazzled by our frantic, chaotic modern-day lifestyles. All of the mindfulness tools and meditations you will learn to teach are just 2-10 minutes long – helping busy people to take ‘10 of zen’.
If you want to support people to…
Slow down, let go and feel less stressed and overwhelmed
Be kinder to themselves
Better manage big emotions like tiredness, anger and guilt
Improve mood
Build resilience and capacity to cope with life’s challenges
Improve sleep
Feel more grounded, calm and connected
….Mindfulness For Busy Modern Lives is the course for you!
Course at a glance…
You’ll finish the 8-week course fully equipped with the knowledge, theory, skills, confidence AND all the scripts to run your own 6-week mindfulness & meditation course. Run it as 1-2-1 sessions, a group programme, an on demand pre-recorded course or as a challenge:
15 meditation scripts
25 mini mindfulness tool scripts
15 mindful living tools
Scripted responses for typical FAQs
Suggested 6-week programme plan & lesson plan
8 lesson ‘topics’ covering the theory and science of meditation including stress, acceptance, making mindfulness a habit, self-kindness, and navigating tough emotions
Perhaps most importantly, the confidence to deliver it!
Study LIVE or watch on demand – whatever works best for you. You have 6 months to complete the 8-week course.
On completion of this course you will be able to:
1. Confidently lead 15 x 10 minute guided mindful meditations.
2. Confidently lead 25 x 2-4 minute mindfulness exercises.
3. Teach the main principles of mindfulness & meditation and how to practice it.
4. Provide information around the key theory and themes of mindfulness including understanding the breath, our thoughts, the modes of the mind, self-compassion, navigating emotions, how we relate to stress, choosing acceptance or action, and habit formation.
5. Answer frequently asked questions around the topic of mindfulness, meditation and making it a habit.
6. Deliver a 6-week mindfulness & meditation programme blending classic mindfulness and simple compassion tools with a dash of positive psychology and stress reduction techniques. You will have the knowledge, confidence, lesson plans and meditation scripts for this. You can choose how to use this; in 1-2-1 coaching sessions, as a group programme, a digital on-demand online course or mindfulness challenge.
Everyone completing the course will feel confident, ready and equipped to share meditations and micro-mindfulness exercises with others. How?
Practice – the course provides loads of opportunities for you to practice the art of leading meditations and mindfulness exercises, helping you to explore your voice, build your confidence and ditch your inhibitions.
Knowledge - I will provide you with a core foundation of knowledge about mindfulness so you can understand the theory and easily pass it on.
Content – I will teach you 15 meditations around the themes of awareness, kindness, and emotions - tailored to help support others in navigating their hectic modern-day lifestyles and the things people most need support with such as stress, tough feelings, tiredness, overwhelm and guilt. You will get 25 micro zen mindfulness exercises to teach too.
Scripts – you will receive your own copy of scripts for the fifteen 10 minute meditations and 25 micro-zen mindfulness exercises; so you have everything you need to go on to lead your own sessions with your clients.
Lesson plan & programme guide – I will give you a lesson plan for how best to share mindfulness sessions with your clients. I will also share suggested mapped out content for a 6 week stand alone mindfulness programme as well as notes for sharing the theory. You can choose how to use this; as 1-2-1 coaching sessions, as a group programme, a digital online course or a mindfulness challenge.
Style guide & FAQs – over the course of the programme you will be taught how to answer frequently asked questions and given top tips for how to lead meditations and mindfulness exercises.
Accreditation - Once the course is complete, you will become a certified 10 of Zen mindfulness teacher. The course is worth 30 hours of CPD (accredited by the UK & International Health Coach Association) and the course is also fully accredited by The Complimentary Medical Association.
“The follow-up recordings are so helpful, alongside all of the resources and scripts. It’s such a comprehensive programme.”
So how does it work?
The live programme runs for 8 weeks and the course includes:
One weekly live session: Monday evenings from 7.30-9.00pm via Zoom. These sessions are recorded for you to catch up in case you can’t attend a session. It is absolutely fine to take the course and not attend the live sessions. I always have a good handful of people studying the course in this way. All the sessions are recorded for this very reason, so you can watch each session on a day and time that best suits you. And you can even go at a different pace, so if you want to watch every 2 weeks or 3 weeks and take a little longer to do the course – that is totally fine too. You have 6 months to complete the 8 sessions. Take a look at the week-by-week course programme here.
Regular co-coaching: In between sessions you have the opportunity to be paired with another student so you can practice your meditations in your own time together. Alternatively you can choose to practice with a friend, work colleague or family member instead.
1-2-1 sessions: The course completes with a compulsory 1-2-1 online session with me where you practice your meditations. Half way through the course you can also book a mid-term session with me - ideal for trouble-shooting or extra zen practice.
“I didn’t anticipate how much this would help me to develop my own mindfulness practice. What I learnt radiated out into the rest of my week - a very welcome side effect!”
What do I get once I complete the course?
When you have completed the course and your final 1-2-1 session with me, you will be given accreditation as a 10 of zen mindfulness teacher. The course is fully accredited by The Complimentary Medical Association. You will get a certificate and a 10 of zen teacher logo to use on your own materials. The course is also worth 30 CPD hours (UKIHCA). You will also be provided with 15 meditation scripts, 25 mini mindfulness scripts, lesson plans and a 6 week programme plan (with topic notes) so that you can go on to teach your own sessions. You will also be given access to ongoing support from me as your ‘guide on the side’.
Am I suitable for the course?
If you are passionate about helping people stress a little less and find a bit more calm and ‘me time’ in their life - this is a great course for you.
The course has been designed in such a way that it can be taken by anyone, no matter whether you have a lapsed meditation practise or you would like to re-establish old habits or if you have never practiced meditation before.
The programme is ideal for anyone who already works with works with people that want to reduce stress, anxiety, overwhelm and make more time in their busy lives for themself. If you are a wellness practitioner, including a health coach, life coach, yoga or pilates teacher, doula, health visitor, personal trainer, midwife, breastfeeding consultant, therapist, baby massage practitioner, nutritionist, sleep coach, psychologist, or hypnotherapist or mental health support worker - this course is an excellent addition to your toolkit to expand your service offering and add a new revenue stream into your existing practice.
I also always have a few people sign up that want to take this course for their own personal practice, to learn how to meditate and make mindfulness a habit OR who want to refresh and revive their own practice with a BIG dose of that all important ACCOUNTABILITY of taking a LIVE course and having me there each week to help you actually make it happen!
How much does it cost?
The 8-week programme (including the scripts and programme plan for your own 6-week course) is £525. The places are limited so to secure a place I ask that you either make the payment in full here or you can sign up to pay across three monthly instalments here, 6 monthly instalments here or 12 instalments here.
The 1-2-1 version of the programme is £1,200.
What is 10 of Zen?
Life is messy and marvellous. Learning to quit the chaos for just 10 minutes can make a massive difference. So that's why 10 of Zen was created - to help you take mindful moments because mindfulness & meditation doesn’t have to take a long time to be effective…that’s why I teach 2-3 minute mindfulness tools and 10 minute meditations…this is mindfulness that is accessible and comes without the overwhelm of needing a lot of time.
Find out more about why Mindfulness Matter here.
Keen but not ready to sign up yet?
Keen but not ready to book? No problem at all. Just ping me a message below with any questions and I can keep you in touch with course details and any future offers coming up.