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Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living
International Online MBCL Teacher-Training Programme
in English

The next online MBCL Teacher Training is planned for spring 2027. As soon as the date is finalised, you will find it here.

Tutors

Frits Koster

Frits Koster is a meditation teacher and a qualified MBSR, MBCT and IMP teacher. He was a Buddhist monk between 1982-1988 and during this period he studied Buddhist psychology at various monasteries in South East Asia. He has written several books on this subject, some of which have been translated into English. He is affiliated as a trainer at various mindfulness teacher training institutes across Europe. With Erik van den Brink he developed the Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living (MBCL). Together they wrote several books on MBCL, these books are translated into various languages. With his wife Jetty Heynekamp he teaches meditation retreats internationally; together with Victoria Norton they edited ‘Mindful Communication’ (Routledge, 2023). With Zohair Elabd he is currently teaching a mindfulness-based training programme focussed called Deepening Mindfulness & Mindful Communication, with Joyce Cordus he has developed a Mindfulness-Based Training in Forgiveness (MBTF).
See: www.compassionateliving.info and/or www.fritskoster.com

Jana Willms

is a psychologist, certified MBSR, MBCT and MBCL senior teacher based in Hamburg, Germany. Together with the founders of MBCL, Frits Koster and Erik van den Brink, she teaches MBCL at the Institute for Mindfulness Based Approaches (IMA), where she also offers Mindfulness-Based Supervision for MBCL and MBSR teachers. She has been practicing Vipassana and Metta meditation since 2000 and teaches mindfulness since 2008. She is a co-author of the German book Mitgefühl üben. Das große MBCL Praxisbuch (Practicing Compassion: The MBCL Handbook), published in 2020. She has lived in the USA and speaks English fluently. Before earning a degree in psychology, she trained and worked as a physiotherapist. See: www.achtsamkeit-willms.de