About the Register

BAMBAs Professional Standards set out the minimum professional requirements for teachers on our Register. It ensures that all registered teachers uphold the integrity, safety, and quality of mindfulness teaching, regardless of their background, training route, or the setting in which they work.

BAMBA’s Professional Standards define what is required to be a BAMBA-registered teacher, and our Good Practice Guidelines (GPGs) outline how to meet those requirements. The GPGs provide a broader framework for ethical, skilful, and reflective teaching, supporting teachers to maintain both the depth and authenticity of mindfulness while adapting to the diverse needs of the communities they serve.

Teachers can refer to BAMBA’s Professional Standards alongside the Good Practice Guidelines to:

• Check that they are meeting BAMBA’s membership standards.
• Understand the different routes available to evidence those standards.
• Identify opportunities for ongoing development and reflective support.

Together, BAMBAs Professional Standards and Good Practice Guidelines form the foundation of BAMBA’s commitment to quality, inclusivity, and integrity in mindfulness teaching across the UK and beyond.

BAMBA members are listed on the register as ‘Mindfulness Teachers,’ but are able to apply to have additional qualifications added to their individual personal and public-facing profile.

Members can apply to be recognised for the following qualifications:

• Mindfulness-Based Supervisor
• MBI-TAC Assessed
• MBI-TAC Assessor (Level 3)
• Workplace Mindfulness Trained
• Children and Young People Mindfulness Trained

To apply to have an additional qualification recognised and added to your teacher’s profile, please navigate to the top of the website page, manage account, and add a new qualification.  You will be asked to provide evidence/certificate of your qualification when applying, which must be from a BAMBA Quality Assessed Affiliate Teacher Training Organisation. 

Each qualification added to your profile is charged at £25.00

Guidance Overview

For those wishing to use the MBI-TAC as a formal assessment tool, there is a requirement to engage in two levels of formal training:

Level 1: Supporting the Inner Teacher with the MBI-TAC: Cultivating Reflection, Embodiment and Competence

Level 2: Supporting others with the MBI-TAC: Cultivating Competence in Supervision and Training.

The culmination of this training pathway is Level 3: Supporting Integrity with the MBI-TAC: Cultivating Reliability in the Assessment Process, which involves a check of inter-rater reliability (i.e., how close/far away an assessment is to internationally agreed benchmarks).

MBI-TAC ASSESSED

Quality Assessed Teacher Training Organisations

BAMBA members who have graduated from a Quality Assessed Affiliate Teacher Training Organisation may apply to BAMBA to arrange MBI-TAC assessment of their qualification.  Bangor University, CMRP, lead the assessment process on behalf of BAMBA.

THE ASSESSMENT PROCESS

The MBI-TAC assessment team at Bangor will require sample videos of the applicants teaching where delivering an 8-week Mindfulness-Based programme.  Two teaching sessions will be selected by the assessor, which will be reviewed and assessed in their entirety.  Assessors may require further data from the applicant depending on assessment outcome.

Assessors will complete:

• An ‘MBI-TAC assessment sheet’ with one assessment point per MBI-TAC domain and a final overall level of competency.
• Qualitative comments for each session for both learning needs and teaching strengths. It should be clear which comments belong to which session and which key feature. For guidance on providing qualitative feedback for MBI:TAC assessments, see: A Guide to Skilful Feedback in Mindfulness-based Programs Training and Assessment. Please use this resource in conjunction with these marking guidelines.

ASSESSMENT COMPLETION

Criteria for certification are as follows:

• The assessment for each domain is no more than one competency level away from the benchmark.
• The assessment is the appropriate side of the Advanced Beginner / Competent boundary.
• The feedback provided is in line with the principles outlined in the Guide to Skilful Feedback in Mindfulness-based Programs Training and Assessment.

Where these criteria are met, assessors will receive certification along with written feedback on their assessment.

Where these requirements are not met, the reviewer will arrange a one-to-one meeting with the assessor to explore discrepancies and, where necessary, further videos of teaching practice will be provided for a second submission.

MBI-TAC ASSESSOR QUALIFICATION

Members can apply for recognition of MBI-TAC Assessor status by writing to [email protected], providing a copy of their qualification certificate to Level 3.

If you are interested in becoming an MBI-TAC assessor, please contact [email protected].  This programme of continued professional development is administered by the Mindfulness Network in Collaboration with BAMBA.