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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

Hi, it’s Mark Joseph again. It’s good to be back. Today, we’re going to talk a little bit about children, a topic that’s extremely close to my heart because I love, love kids.

Once, I paid a visit to a school and was talking about the benefits of mindfulness and stress reduction—mainly for the teachers, but also for the kids. I asked the teachers, “Would it be possible if, just before class, before you get into it with the children, you do three deep breaths with them? That’s all. Just breathing in and breathing out—three times.”

Surprisingly, some of the answers I got from the teachers were that the children were too busy to stop and breathe. I was a bit concerned because it sounded like we’re raising a nation of anxious, always-on-the-go kids. If we just slowed things down, even for a little bit, it could make a world of difference.

As I was contemplating this, the drama teacher tapped me on the shoulder and said, “I always do breathing exercises with my kids, and they are so well-behaved in my class.” It was quite funny listening to the other teachers complain about how naughty the kids were in their classes. I thought to myself, maybe if they just did three breaths at the beginning of class, the kids would settle down, feel better, and their nervous systems would be regulated.

So, a little bit of food for thought.

Speaking of food, I have a yummy marshmallow. Have you heard of the marshmallow test? It was conducted by Stanford University in the 1960s. The test went like this: They placed one marshmallow on a plate in front of a six-year-old child—many kids were tested this way—and told them, “If you wait 12 minutes without eating this marshmallow, I will bring you another one.” Then, the researcher left the room, leaving the child alone with the marshmallow.

They filmed the kids, and the reactions were quite funny—some squished the marshmallow against their noses, some nibbled at it, and some just couldn’t resist, popping it into their mouths immediately. But some kids did wait for the second marshmallow.

When the researcher returned and saw the marshmallow still there, they placed another one on the plate, and those kids got to eat both at the same time.

The interesting part is that they tracked these children over 30 years—one of the longest case studies ever done. They found that the kids who couldn’t wait for the second marshmallow tended to have more problems in life. They struggled with delayed gratification, had higher addiction rates, didn’t perform well in school, and had difficulties in relationships and careers.

On the other hand, the kids who waited for the second marshmallow had much better lives—good grades, happy family lives, fulfilling jobs. They had learned self-control.

So what does this tell us? It’s a mix of nature and nurture. But the good news is that kids who struggle with delayed gratification can learn mindful techniques for self-control. If they practice deep breathing and self-awareness, they can change. And it starts with us—as adults—because kids watch every move we make.

We can teach them self-discipline, self-management, and mindfulness. When we take a breath, everything becomes crystal clear—it’s like HD resolution for the mind.

Remember this jar? When it’s still, it’s clear, right? But if you’re always busy, busy, busy—never stopping to take a breath—it becomes a mess, just like this jar filled with swirling chaos. That’s how kids feel too.

But if we take just a small breath break, everything settles down—our thoughts, emotions, and feelings. Just like this jar, we gain clarity.

I can see clearly now, the rain has gone.

I’m going to eat this marshmallow right now. Bye.

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