Become the person who can guide others with presence, skill, and confidence.
With Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach · 18 months · 100% online
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You have felt the difference between knowing about presence and actually inhabiting it. Perhaps you have watched that difference move through a client, a student, a colleague, or someone you love—and wondered whether it is time to offer this work more fully.
For 2,600 years, these practices have moved from teacher to student, from one heart to another. MMTCP is a structured path from personal practice to skillful teaching.
Next cohort begins February 5, 2027
Build on your meditation experience. Previous teaching experience isn’t required.
Combine flexible study with scheduled teaching, mentorship, and peer practice.
A typical month
In a typical month that adds up to about 4–8 flexible hours of self-paced study, plus roughly 3 scheduled hours of live teaching and mentorship — in line with the one to two hours of structured content a week advertised above.
Your personal meditation practice continues throughout the program. During the practicum, allow additional time to prepare and teach your course.
Or 18 monthly payments of $463.
“MMTCP has deepened my understanding of mindfulness and has helped me show my spiritual side in the corporate world. I have enhanced my leadership workshops with mindfulness exercises and run mindfulness workshops for big companies.”
“MMTCP gave me a full range of interventions in my coaching practice. I include mindfulness practices in all team developments, leadership training, and coaching. Personally, it has helped me in my own awakening and healing process.”
MMTCP does not simply give you more information about mindfulness. It develops your capacity to guide a room, respond to what arises, and teach from lived practice rather than a script.
Your practice deepens, and your presence becomes steadier in the rooms you already hold.
You learn to guide meditation, build a course, meet questions, and teach with clarity.
You leave with a recognized certification and a practicum course you have already taught.
This is more than adding another technique to your work. It is the formation of your capacity—and confidence—to teach.
Jack and Tara helped bring Buddhist mindfulness into contemporary Western life. Across decades of teaching, they have translated a 2,600-year tradition without losing its depth—and trained generations of teachers to carry it forward.
Trained as a Buddhist monk under Ajahn Chah, Jack co-founded the Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock. More than 40 years of his teaching have included training teachers.
A clinical psychologist, founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, and author of Radical Acceptance, Tara created the RAIN practice used worldwide.
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See what is covered and how mentorship and practicum weave through the 18 months.
No application required. Content and order are subject to change before the program begins.
A dedicated mentor and small peer group give you personal guidance, honest feedback, and a community in which to practice. This is what makes MMTCP different from a self-paced certification: you learn to teach with people who know your work.
Some graduates build a teaching practice. Others bring mindfulness more deeply into the work they already do. These are their real paths.
“MMTCP has opened up a whole new career path for me—teaching mindfulness meditation and creativity.”
“The VA has kindly funded me to teach Mindfulness for Chronic Pain and Mindfulness for Women Veterans.”
“These teachings have been the most important education of my entire professional career.”
“I teach mindfulness meditation now on a part-time basis, and it is a real joy and privilege to do so.”
You do not need to leave your current work. Some graduates build a teaching practice; others bring mindfulness more deeply into work they already do.
I haven’t practiced long enough. I’m not an expert. What if I’m not ready?These doubts do not disqualify you. They are part of learning to teach with humility.
MMTCP does not ask you to arrive perfected. It gives you 18 months of practice, mentorship, feedback, and a real practicum so readiness is built rather than presumed. Teaching remains part of the practice: you keep teaching what you are still learning. Jack’s instruction is simple: “Teach what you know.”
“You keep teaching what you are still learning.”
For more than fifty years, teaching mindfulness has kept teaching me. Students arrive carrying sorrow and joy, courage and uncertainty, and each encounter asks me to listen more deeply. They remind me that compassion is not an idea but a way of meeting what is here; that equanimity can hold both heartbreak and delight; and that humility keeps the heart available to learn.
Again and again, I have discovered that the teacher is never finished. We practice alongside those we guide, becoming more honest, patient, and loving through the work itself. Teaching is not the declaration that you have arrived. It is another form of practice—an invitation to keep opening, keep listening, and keep learning from the lives entrusted to your care.
Guest specialists bring established work in mindfulness, compassion, trauma, neuroscience, justice, and embodied practice.
For this 18-month training program. Two ways to pay:
Enroll by October 31, 2026, to save $800.
Next cohort begins February 5, 2027.
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There is no required number of years on the cushion. What matters is your desire and commitment to teach. The 18 months are designed to deepen both your practice and your teaching capacity.
Structured content averages roughly one to two hours a week across the 18 months, plus your own daily practice. On-demand teachings are flexible; live sessions and mentor groups are scheduled.
The program combines on-demand learning with scheduled live teaching and mentor-group sessions. The calendar is designed for working professionals across time zones.
You receive 34 hours with a dedicated mentor in a small group, alongside peer practice. Mentorship provides personal guidance, feedback, and support as you develop your teaching.
The 18-month formation includes core teachings, live sessions, mentorship, ethics, and a supervised practicum in which you design and teach your own course before successful completion.
MMTCP welcomes therapists, coaches, healthcare professionals, educators, yoga and meditation teachers, leaders, longtime practitioners, and people entering a new chapter of work.
Graduates teach in clinics, hospitals, companies, schools, prisons, retreat centers, and private practices. Some build a teaching practice; others deepen the work they already do.
Tuition is $7,900 (reduced from $8,700) for this 18-month training program. You can pay in full, or choose 18 monthly payments of $463 — a payment-plan total of $8,334, which is $434 more than paying in full. Enrolling by October 31, 2026 saves $800.
Bring what you have learned into service—with the training, mentorship, and lived experience to teach it well.