How do participants actually experience our teaching, and how can their feedback support us to grow with confidence and integrity?
In this session, Willem Kuyken will introduce the Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Participants’ Assessment of Teaching (MBI:PAT), a new, easy-to-use feedback tool designed to capture participants’ perspectives on mindfulness teaching. Developed by an international group of experienced mindfulness teachers and researchers, the MBI:PAT builds on familiar foundations (including the MBI:TAC) while offering something many teachers have been asking for: a clear, thoughtful way to listen to the participant voice.
The MBI:PAT is a short 24‑item questionnaire that reflects aspects of teaching many of us care deeply about, such as how we relate to participants, how we guide practices, how we hold the learning space, and how our presence supports the group. It provides an overall sense of teaching effectiveness without being overly technical or burdensome.
During the session, we’ll explore:
- why participant feedback can be a powerful support (rather than something to fear)
- how the MBI:PAT was created and what it measures in everyday teaching terms
- practical ways it can be used in training, supervision, personal reflection, and research
- how it can complement, not replace, existing ways of understanding teaching quality
There will be plenty of space for small-group discussion and Q&A, with opportunities to reflect together on how listening to participants can inform, affirm, and gently shape our teaching over time.
Whether you’re newly qualified or highly experienced, this session offers a supportive and down-to-earth exploration of how participant feedback can strengthen reflective practice and help sustain the integrity of mindfulness-based teaching.
Event details
🗓️ Date: Monday 14th September 2026
⏰ Time: 12:30–13:30 (UK time)
💻 Location: Online via Zoom
🎟️ Tickets: £5-£20 or a donation
About the speaker
Willem Kuyken is the Ritblat Professor of Mindfulness and Psychological at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. His work has focused on depression across the translational pathway from theory, through treatment and implementation. In particular, his research examines how cognitive therapy and mindfulness-based programs can prevent depression, promote mental health and enhance well-being across the lifespan. Dr. Kuyken has published more than 150 journal articles. He was named by Web of Science as in the top 1% of the most cited scientists in the world. Together with Christina Feldman, he wrote Mindfulness – Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology, published in 2019. A new book for the general population, provisionally entitled Mindfulness for Life was published in 2024, also with Guilford Press.