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Teacher Training Class 1
Good day to you friends, it's Mark Joseph here and welcome to the Mindfulness Teacher Training. So this is the introductory video and just a little explanation of how this all came to be. Well, let's go to the beginning. My journey really started born out of anxiety, born out of panic attacks and my father unfortunately died of suicide when I was 21 years old. I was following a similar downward trajectory with my mental health after his death, and I decided not to go the chemical route, which is the route that he took, but rather to go the route of breathwork and mindfulness. As a young man, I started to explore that, and it was miraculous. I felt that I finally had control over my life, and I was wondering why did nobody else know these techniques? Why are they just prescribed medication when they could at least try and work on some of these mindful techniques—mindful movement, mindful breathing, mindful meditation, journaling, and so on? Why can we not try these first before we go on to the medication? So I practiced for a while, I went to India, I traveled throughout India, the Himalayas for one year, and then I lived in a monastery, in a temple actually, for three years—can you believe it? During that time, I was grappling with the idea of becoming a monk, but I eventually left the temple without becoming fully ordained, and I got married. But my passion for mindfulness carried on, and I realized it wasn't so much in a religious framework that I wanted to help people—it was more from a practical, scientific point of view. When I go into the ancient scriptures of mindfulness, I don't see the spirituality—I see the science. I see the ancient technology that we have at our disposal today, now validated by scientific research and neuroscientists. Throughout this program, you'll get to know all of them in their full range, supporting the growth of mindfulness. So yes, it's an incredible journey. The modules are amazing—they've been put together as my life's work that I'm sharing with you. In a way, it was an intuitive flow, but as I was going about it intuitively, I realized that I had so much research to back up what I felt inside. It's just been such an amazing process. I have taught thousands of people. I have a lot of students that are now my peers—they became their own mindfulness facilitators, gurus, whatever you call them. I don’t like to be called a guru, but it gives me the greatest joy—the greatest, greatest joy—to see people whom I've trained go on and incorporate this into their professions. Into dancing, into pottery, into their therapy, into their practice, into their physiotherapy, into everything. Into teaching children at school and stopping to do mindfulness exercises with them before the classrooms. I've seen it spread right across the world actually, through the programs that I run—corporate, professional, and so on. It’s just a remarkable time. We are in a mindful revolution, and I just couldn't be happier. So let's explore this series together. Let's have fun. Let's ask questions. Let's engage. I am at your disposal, and I am guiding you—you are leading, and I am just encouraging you. Let’s go forward into the most dynamic process that one can go through—truly life-changing. And I am not just saying that—I know it's a cliché, but whenever people do this training, that’s what I hear. Their lives just change. So welcome to the Mindfulness Teacher Training. This is where you begin.
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Class 1: Part 1
04:55
Class 1: Part 2
05:29
Class 1: Part 3
06:07
Class 1: Part 4
04:26
Class 1: Part 5
05:49
Class 1: Part 6
06:32
Class 1: Part 7
03:38
Class 1: Part 8
09:18
Coffee Practice
02:49
Breath Meditation
Keeping a Journal
06:12
Starve your Distractions and Feed Your Focus Practice
05:34
Teacher Training Class 2
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Class 2: Intro
04:50
Class 2: Part 1
10:36
Class 2: Part 2
04:00
Class 2: Part 3
08:57
Class 2: Part 4
07:04
Class 2: Part 5
07:55
Class 2: Part 6
08:01
Class 2: Part 7
04:36
Class 2: Part 8
00:00
Pre Body Scan Practice
02:25
Body Scan Practice
12:14
Mindful Eating Practice
06:31
Teacher Training Class 3
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Class 3: Introduction
03:01
Class 3: Part 1
05:17
Class 3: Part 2
11:20
Class 3: Part 3
07:42
Class 3: Part 4
05:30
Labelling Practice
Ocean Mind Practice
08:57
Sky Like Mind Practice
00:00
Non-Striving Practice
08:45
Looking & Problem Solving Practice
06:54
Teacher Training Class 4
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Class 4: Part 1
06:01
Class 4: Part 2
08:30
Class 4: Part 3
07:59
Healing of the Inner Child Practice
09:11
The ‘Nice’ Self Compassion Practice
09:53
Teacher Training Class 5
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Class 5: Part 1
08:21
Class 5: Part 2
06:55
Class 5: Part 3
03:19
Class 5: Part 4
09:53
Class 5: Part 5
05:24
Class 5: Part 6
09:28
Are You OK? Checking In Practice
08:32
Loving Kindness, EQ Meditation Practice
09:17
Empathy for Forgiveness Practice
04:05
Feed Your Emotions a Cookie Practice
05:24
Teacher Training Class 6
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Class 6: Part 1
05:51
Class 6: Part 2
09:08
Class 6: Part 3
08:38
Class 6: Part 4
05:10
How To Remain Curious Practice
07:13
Finding Your Values Practice
14:10
Bonus Video: Self-Investigation by Jon Kabat-Zinn
02:08
Bonus Video: Teach Back Advice
13:45
Mindfulness 8-Week Course

The silent pandemic that I’m seeing, okay, and I know I might be sounding dramatic, but I’m really, really, really serious about this, guys. The silent pandemic is the eroding of our attention span, our ability to stay present, our ability to stay focused. Are we able to unpack or solve issues in our business and in our life with a level of attention that is required for that to happen? I don’t know anymore.

I think time management is dead, okay? It’s dead. We cannot manage time anymore. You might decide to put things in your calendar and you get bookings and so many meetings, but you’re getting 90 emails a day, right? You’re checking your emails 90 times a day.

How are you supposed to focus on anything if you’re checking your emails 90 times a day and checking your phone every four minutes? How do you be present? Focus is what’s going to give us success in life. And according to Microsoft, they did a study because they’re tracking people’s attention spans to feed that information back to advertising agencies. They said our attention has dropped from 2017 to present day from 12 seconds to 8.5 seconds as a human race.

We are literally dumbing down, and we’ve got such blinkers on, we don’t even know it. We don’t even know it. Our children are being more affected than anybody. They don’t even want to go outside and have relationships anymore. Do you know that they say that adolescents are having less intimate relationships because they’d rather sit at home? They don’t even know how to communicate with people of the opposite sex. It’s becoming more complex. They would rather not, right?

So, I mean, this is the danger, right? What does this do for business? I had a salesman come in, a young guy, trying to sell me media space when I was MD of my advertising agency, and he’s on his phone under the table. I’m like, what are you playing with under the table? What you got there? He’s like, “Sorry, sir, I’m just—” You know what? Get out of here. You’re either talking to me or you’re on your phone, you’re not going to do both. Get out of here.

It’s our ability to stay present, our ability to listen. You know, we should have listening shows, not talk shows, right? Everybody wants to talk, but nobody listens anymore. We’re in meetings, but we’re not really in meetings—we’re multitasking.

According to Harvard, if you’re doing three or four things at the same time, you’re dumbing down to that of an IQ of an eight-year-old child. And the scary thing is, you don’t even know it, right? You’re driving your car and you’re texting. Do you know that texting and driving is causing more deaths on the road than alcohol? It has surpassed it. And why do we text and drive? Because we are slaves to technology, as Einstein said.

So this is the problem that no one’s talking about. This is the problem that no one’s talking about. The other problem is that no one is being authentic anymore. No one’s really caring about anybody else as much as they used to because nobody really sees other people as much as they used to.

And I really believe that it’s so important for us to build more connection, and that is also eroding. So there are two main components, and I know I’ve spoken about them already. It is also very dangerous. It is our multitasking culture, always-on culture, not focusing enough, and not creating connection. I think those are some of the biggest, biggest problems that we have.

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