Mindfulness and Well-being for Professional Practitioners (PGCert)
This programme offers a next step after completing an eight-week course, and an opportunity to develop your learning in the area of your professional activity, whatever it may be.
You will consider how mindfulness informed approaches to well-being might enhance personal, organisational and wider community ways of being in the 21st Century. Although it is online learning, weekly practice drop-in sessions are designed to create a sense of community amongst students, wherever you are based.
Suitable eight-week courses are detailed in the Entry Requirements section.
Course details
- Online
- Distance Learning
- English
- Welsh
Why choose this course?
What you will learn
The programme focuses on key areas of personal practice, compassion-based practice and culture and communities.
It starts with the individual, in the context of their workplace, expands to consider a compassion-based approach and then widens to encompass culture and communities, with sustainability as a focus throughout.
It engages with the good practice and integrity that informs approaches to mindfulness, as well as the wider political agenda where mindfulness seeks to inform policy.
The programme connects theory, practice and consideration of professional impact to enhance both personal and workplace well-being.
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Staff
Our People
You will be taught and supported by a wide range of professional staff and teams here to help you get the university experience you are looking for. Our teaching staff were ranked 2nd in Wales for assessments and feedback (NSS 2023) meaning the comments you get back from your work will help you learn. Our commitment to your learning has seen our students place us as Top 10 in the UK for Lecturers and Teaching Quality. Find out more about our academic staff who teach across our courses.
Further information
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Applicants are normally required to hold an honours degree.
Vocational qualifications and experience will also be considered.
Applicants are also required to have completed an 8-week course from the following list, (which may be updated):
- Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
- Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
- Dotb Foundations
- Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World
- Mindfulness for Education Leaders (MEL)
- The Present for Adults
Applicants undertaking Module HBMW7001, The Mindful Practitioner (Schools) are also required to have trained in one of the following, (which may be updated):
- Teach dotb (Mindfulness in Schools Project)
- Teach pawsb (Mindfulness in Schools Project)
- The Present
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There are no examinations in this programme of study. Assessments are designed to enable students demonstrate their academic understanding in the context of personal development and professional activity. They will constitute some of the following:
- Case study
- Reflective essays
- Written assignments
- Presentation.
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Additional costs involve buying essential text books and attending an annual conference.
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You may be eligible for funding to help support your study. To find out about scholarships, bursaries and other funding opportunities that are available, please visit our Bursaries and Scholarships section.
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This programme will enable professionals to deepen their knowledge and skills in this field and apply this to their area of work. As such, it may enhance career progression at a time when there is a growing demand for mindfulness and well-being expertise in many fields.
This may include:
- Education
- Youth Work
- Health Sector
- Human Resources
- Counselling
- Creative industries