Exploring the MBI:TAC in Contemporary Mindfulness Teaching

The Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Teaching Assessment Criteria (MBI:TAC) was originally developed as an assessment tool within academic training programmes. Today, it has become so much more a living framework that supports mindfulness teachers and supervisors in navigating the complexity, authenticity, and integrity of teaching.

This event brings together Sophie Sansom, who now leads the ongoing development of the MBI:TAC following Rebecca Crane’s pioneering work, and Lee Bennett, an experienced mindfulness teacher working across healthcare, education, and community settings.

Together, they will explore how the MBI:TAC is evolving to stay relevant across diverse teaching contexts, beyond the standard eight-week programmes and into one-to-one, school, workplace, and community settings.Sophie will introduce the MBI:TAC, exploring:

✔️ Why the tool was developed and the needs it was designed to address

✔️ The ethos and principles underpinning it, grounded in mindfulness practice and pedagogy

✔️ Its structure: six domains and six levels of competency

✔️ Research evidence around validity and reliability

✔️ How it’s being applied in supervision, training, teaching, and professional development

✔️ Its role in supporting quality and integrity across diverse teaching settings

Lee will explore what it means to apply the MBI:TAC in real-world contexts, including:

✔️ MBI-TAC – Assessment or Manual?

• ‘Real world’ use of MBI-TAC within teaching
• Various modalities and various places of delivery
• The use of supervision to explore the MBI-TAC

✔️ Efficacy of experience/education in MBI’s

• Having the ‘library’ of resource and education that is evidence based
• Knowing how to balance education and delivery (Again reflecting to MBI-TAC)

✔️ Using the MBI-TAC as a ‘mirror’

• ‘Real world’ examples of personal reflection and of the benefits/pitfalls

Join us to explore how this framework can help maintain quality, authenticity, and integrity in mindfulness teaching today.

🗓 Date: Monday 24th March 2025
🕛 Time: 12:00–13:30 (90 minutes) | Online via Zoom
📹 A recording will be sent to all participants

About Sophie Sansom

Sophie Sansom is co-director of the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University where she teaches on the Masters programme. She sits on the International Panel of Acknowledgement (IPA) for the European Association of Mindfulness-based Approaches and is chair of the British Association of Mindfulness-based Approaches (BAMBA).

About Lee Bennett

Lee Bennett is a highly experienced Mental Health professional with 19 years’ experience of working both in the UK and in the Channel Islands, across statutory and charitable organisations, practicing and teaching evidence-based interventions such as Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Mindfulness Based Interventions (MBI’s)

Lee is a trained teacher in MBSR, MBCT, MBCT-L, .b and in Nurturing parents Mindfulness, has received his Mindfulness training through Bangor Centre for Mindfulness research, The Oxford Mindfulness centre and The Mindfulness in schools project and has been a registered teacher with BAMBA and Access MBCT for several years

Using this background, education and experience Lee has delivered and taught supervised MBI’s across various sectors, to various recipients and in various formats. Lee also has provided several talks on the application of Mindfulness Based interventions within various settings

Currently Lee is employed as a Mental Health manager within a secondary school and has a successful ongoing private practice delivering mindfulness in various formats for businesses, charities and healthcare providers.