Institut für Achtsamkeit
MBSR Teacher Training
International Teacher-Training Program
Online and Rosenwaldhof near Berlin
Start: Thursday, November 26 2026
Online Info Session
Thursday, Feb 19 2026, 18:30 - 20:30 h (CET)
Online - Free Fee
If you are interested to participate please send an E-Mail to:
Wolfgang.Schroeder@institut-fuer-achtsamkeit.de
Online Orientation Day
Saturday, March 21 2026, 09:30 bis 17:00 h (CET)
Fee for orientation day: € 125,-
If you are interested in enrolling, or seek more information please contact us at
info@institut-fuer-achtsamkeit.de
Rosenwaldhof Centre near Berlin and Potsdam. (Accessible by public transport from all Berlin airports and the Central Train Station).
Rosenwaldhof is a seminar house and meditation center in the greater Berlin area. It is situated close to forests and several lakes. The river Havel and a hill-top viewpoint are within short walking distance. The cities of Brandenburg and Potsdam are 25 km away.
From May 2025 until November 2026, this English-language MBSR teacher training near Berlin offers a compact format of seven modules online and two modules live.
Successfully in use worldwide
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, also known as MBSR for short, has been used successfully in many hundreds of clinics of various types and health centres around the world. In Europe, the program has also been used successfully for many years in Switzerland, Germany and other European countries. The Institute for Mindfulness-Based Approaches (IMA) has been running its teacher-training program since 2002. It takes place several times a year in Germany and regularly in Switzerland, Poland, France, Austria and Japan. We have also offered programs in Ireland, Norway and Turkey.
Scientifically researched and proven
Numerous scientific studies have underlined the effectiveness of the MBSR program. The studies impressively document that course participants experience, among other things, a lasting reduction in physical and psychological symptoms, more effective coping with stressful situations, an increased ability to relax, growing self-confidence and acceptance, more joie de vivre and vitality. Course participants who have experienced significant relief from their symptoms by attending an MBSR course include people with cancer, AIDS, heart disease, headaches, sleep disorders, anxiety and panic attacks and stress-induced gastrointestinal complaints. Although MBSR started in a hospital environment, it has spread throughout society and can be found in many different settings including but not limited to schools and university-health care programs, the business world, employee health care programs. Burn-out prevention, coaching and private therapeutic practices, rehabilitation and mental-health clinics, and many more environments.
Our Program is also a Mindfulness Teacher Training
Completing our training program not only prepares you to teach MBSR but also Mindfulness courses in general. Many of our graduates use the skills they learn in our program to offer mindfulness courses in various settings. They also offer follow-up programs and retreats. Our training provides you with a wide variety of skills and possibilities that can be applied to broaden one`s course offerings.
What can you expect from this training program?
The aim of the training is to prepare you to teach MBSR and Mindfulness. To this end, we will teach you the content and the specific elements of the MBSR program interactively and experientially, e.g.:
- Body scan, mindful movement and sitting meditation - what are the main exercises of the MBSR program all about?
- What are the pedagogical aspects of meditation and how do I deal with participants' questions and problems?
- How do I conduct an "inquiry" - the exploratory conversation - as an important instrument of mindfulness-based approaches?
- What practical questions would I like to clarify on the subject of teaching and learning?
- What is the role of MBSR teachers and what are their own limits?
- How can I deepen my own mindfulness practice and develop my competence in teaching mindfulness?
- What resource does the opportunity for collegial exchange represent for my future work as an MBSR teacher?
- How do I create my own course materials (including three audio recordings for the main exercises of the program) and how do I run my own first MBSR course?
- What is the current state of research on MBSR?
- and much more.
Our information packet includes detailed information about the training program and the online orientation day.
1. Module 12. - 18. November 2026 live at Rosenwaldhof
2. Module 15. - 17. January 2027 online
3. Module 05. - 07. March 2027 online
4. Module 07. - 09. May 2027 online
5. Module 02. - 04. July 2027 online
6. Module 03. - 05. September 2027 online
7. Module 01. - 03. October 2027 online
8. Module 21. - 23. January 2028 online
9. Module 11. - 14. May 2028 live at Rosenwaldhof
Wolfgang Schröder
is the senior coordinator of the international MBSR Teacher-Training Programs at the IAS. He is also co-leader of the ’Achtsamkeitspraxis Berlin‘ since 2012. His interest in spiritual development and meditation was awakened in 1985. When he trained as a bookseller in the Rhineland, he made a fundamental decision to dedicate his life to practicing meditation and seeking spiritual guidance in Buddhism. During a stay in the United Kingdom for several years, he was able to intensify his practice and study of Buddhism. At that time, he worked in cooperatively run companies and certified as a yoga teacher in 1994. A full year of involvement followed as a member of the teaching team and cook at ‘Vajraloka Meditation Center’ in Wales, UK. Since he became familiar with Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book ‘Full Catastrophy Living’ in 2005, he trained in the MBSR teacher training program at the IAS. In 2008 he certified as MBSR teacher, later as MBCT and MBCL teacher, qualified as a supervisor and deepened his understanding and skills in mindful-movement-practices and trauma-sensitive approaches to Yoga and meditation.
Since the early 2020 he started to work as a teacher trainer at the IAS, as co-coordinator of the MBSR trainings and trains internationally.
Ingrid van den Hout
M. Sci. is the senior coordinator of the IMA MBSR Teacher-Training Programs. She completed her study of the Science of Human Movement at the Free University of Amsterdam in 1989. She works as a psychomotor therapist in mental health care. She is a teacher of MBSR, MBCT and Breathworks. She has a background in the martial arts (Aikido) and became a practitioner of Vipassana in 2001. She trained as an MBSR teacher at the Center for Mindfulness (CFM) in the U.S. in 2004 and 2005. Continuing her development as an MBCT teacher, she participated in the Advanced-Training for MBCT offered by the University of Bangor in 2008. She acted as senior teacher and assessor during a multi-clinic study on MBCT by Radboud University. Since 2006 she has been on the faculty of the Dutch Institute for Mindfulness as a trainer of MBSR and MBCT teachers. She completed her formal training as a supervisor at the British Centre for Supervision and Team Development in 2013. Her involvement in psychosomatics led her to train as a teacher of Breathworks.
Elise Jansen
B.A, is the owner of Bloom Studio in Oslo, Norway where she works as a yoga and Mindfulness teacher. She has been practicing yoga and meditation since she was a teen-ager and has trained as a teacher of MBSR with the IMA. She is also a certified Yogaworks, Ashtanga Vinyasa, Restorative, Yin and TRE teacher. Elise has been teaching yoga for 15 years and teacher trainings in Mindful Restorative Yoga for the last 3 years. She travels extensively teaching yoga and trainings with focus on interception, mindfulness and deep rest in Europe and beyond.
Rene Ryorin Slikker
René Slikker is a psychologist and physical therapist. His specific interest is mind-body medicine and personal development. As a psychologist, he combines mental and physical well being with return-to-work programs. He has worked in the United States, Great Britain and Germany as a physical therapist. When he learned about MBSR and Jon Kabat-Zinn, he was immediately inspired and still is. He was one of the first students to train in MBSR with Johan Tinge and his teaching staff at the Institute for Mindfulness in Holland in 2008. He has worked as a mindfulness teacher trainer at the post-doc program of the Hogeschool Utrecht. He has taught numerous MBSR courses and guided several retreats. He started practicing Zen Buddhism in 1998 and has integrated this into his work. At present, he works as a Buddhist psychologist in his own practice in Amsterdam. He and his wife have also founded and teach in a small Zen temple.
Bernd Langohr
M.D., is an MBSR & MBCT teacher. He studied medicine in Tübingen and Jena. During med school, he helped to establish a mindfulness program at the psychiatric clinic in Weimar. He was also involved in developing and establishing mindfulness trainings at local universities from 2015-2020. He has been practicing meditation since 2002 and lived in a Theravada-Buddhist monastery in Germany for two years. He completed his certification training in MBSR and MBCT with the IMA in 2007 and 2010.
Amir H Imani
Amir holds a Master’s degree in Counseling and Adult Education from the University of Toronto, Canada. He worked in mental health research at the Department of Psychiatry of the University of Toronto and studies and practices the effect of mind-body integration in mental health and balanced living since the year 2000.
He has undergone MBSR Teacher Training at the Centre for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and has been teaching MBSR to different groups including Mindfulness trainers, corporate staff and executives since 2005.
Through his personal and professional interest in mind-body medicine, Amir has trained with Dr. Jon Kabat Zinn, founder of MBSR program and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
Amir has also trained with pioneer leading teachers including Joseph Goldstein and Larry Rosenberg. He is the co-founder/director of the Indian based Omega Wellbeing, founding director of the only hospital-based MBSR program in the Middle East region, and a senior certified mindfulness teacher at UMASS Medical School.
Amir holds workshops and retreats internationally for public and private organizations.
Jean-Daniel Rüedi
PhD worked for more than 15 years in academia and private companies as project manager, R&D manager and CEO, before starting to work as freelance coach and consultant. He is the co-founder of O’Centre Formation and now work as trainer, coach and therapist with teams and individuals. He is trained in coaching, organization and relationship systems coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), hypnosis, Non-Violent Communication (NVC), transpersonal therapy, as well as acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). He trained as MBSR teacher with the IMA and as MBCL teacher with the Mindfulness Network. He teaches both these programs in Switzerland and online.
Nils Altner
Ph.D., works currently as a mind-body therapist at the Clinic for Natural and Integrative Medicine at the University of Essen, Germany. His work is in research and in teaching aspects of mindful pedagogy, personality development und health themes as taught at the University of Duisburg-Essen and at Harvard University. He is a graduate of the MBSR Professional Internship Programme at the Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts. He has intensive experience in Zen and Vipassana meditation, Hatha Yoga and Chi Kung. He is a co-author of Incorporating Qigong in Schools (in German) and author of Mindfulness and Health (in German).
Course Fee: 4.500,- Euro
Payment schedule for private persons:
Payment 1: 225,- Euro At the time of returning the contract registration
Payment 2: 1.425,- Euro September 1, 2026
Payment 3: 1.425,- Euro December 1, 2026
Payment 4: 1.425,- Euro April 1, 2027
Orientation Day: 125,- Euro
Download: Information Packet