Inside the Mindful AI Practitioner Certification
Eight modules. Eight weeks. Four professional phases: Embody, Discern, Design, and Integrate. Together they take you from human foundations to a grounded professional identity in an AI-integrated world.
Three Frameworks, One Practice
The Bounded Convergence Framework: the core lens for distinguishing the human qualities of teaching that must stay within your care from the tasks AI can genuinely support.
The Alaya Evaluative Framework for critically assessing AI-powered mindfulness apps, platforms, and resources before adopting or recommending them.
Adapted from Bangor University's MBI:TAC, with two domains of our own: Commercial Alignment, and Governance & Ethics. Read the MBI:TACTeaching competency assessed using the Mindfulness-Based Interventions: Teaching Assessment Criteria (MBI:TAC), developed by Dr. Rebecca Crane at Bangor University's Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice.
What's Included
40+ hours of recorded teaching across 8 modules
Workbooks, exercises, and a full reading library
Weekly community forum and cohort discussion
Mindful AI Practitioner certificate on completion
Who It's For
New Mindfulness Teachers
Building the embodied foundations of teaching before layering in any AI tool.
Therapists Teaching MBCT
Clinicians delivering Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy who want AI literacy that respects clinical rigor and participant safety.
Experienced Teachers & Facilitators
Integrating AI into an established practice without losing the presence and relational depth that define it.
Teacher Trainers & Program Directors
Setting a shared, ethical standard for how AI is used across a teaching team or training program.
Digital Mindfulness Creators
Designing AI-assisted courses, apps, and resources that stay accountable to sound mindfulness pedagogy.
Module by Module
The full 8-week curriculum, week by week.
Week 1 · Embody
The Human Foundations of Mindfulness Teaching
Before exploring any AI tool, ground your teaching in the embodied presence, authenticity, and relational awareness that no technology can replace.
Week 2 · Embody
The Art of Mindfulness Teaching
Explore the art of facilitation: guided practice, mindful inquiry, and responsive teaching presence that makes mindfulness instruction transformative.
Week 3 · Discern
Mindfulness of Generative AI
Build a mindful, informed relationship with generative AI, and learn the Mindful AI Pause for evaluating when and how to use it.
Week 4 · Discern
Creating with Multimodal AI
Use multimodal AI (text, image, audio, video) to create accessible, engaging mindfulness resources without losing your pedagogical voice.
Week 5 · Discern
Stewardship in the Digital Mindfulness Ecosystem
Develop a systems view of the digital mindfulness ecosystem, and use the Alaya Evaluative Framework to assess AI-powered tools and platforms.
Week 6 · Discern
Ethics of AI in Mindfulness Teaching
Examine research on the ethical opportunities and challenges of AI in mindfulness teaching, and build the judgment to navigate them in practice.
Week 7 · Design
AI as a Teaching Partner
Partner with AI to design cohesive, pedagogically sound mindfulness learning experiences while remaining responsible for the learning journey.
Week 8 · Integrate
Professional Identity in an AI-Integrated World
Integrate everything you've learned into a grounded professional identity and a personal plan for practicing wisely as AI continues to evolve.
Meet Your Teaching Team
Steve Haberlin, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Central Florida
Author and Researcher in Mindfulness and Digital Practice
With nearly three decades of personal practice and extensive published research, Steve Haberlin, Ph.D. studies how meditation, mindfulness, and emerging technology meet in higher education, bridging ancient contemplative traditions with modern technological realities. Together with Amanda Evans, he created the Bounded Convergence Framework (BCF), the core framework this course uses to distinguish the human qualities of teaching that must stay within your care from the tasks AI can genuinely support.
Jeremy Yencer, M.A.
Mindfulness Researcher & App Developer
MA in Mindfulness Studies, Lesley University
Jeremy studies how mindfulness, technology, and human decision making shape each other. He developed Alaya Insight, an AI tool that evaluates meditation apps on their pedagogical grounding using the MBI:TAC framework. His research explored how mindfulness is translated into digital products, and where those products align with or drift from the core principles of practice. He completed his MA at Lesley University focusing on how popular mindfulness apps measure against established pedagogical standards.
Jeffrey Juelsgaard, M.A.
Mindfulness Teacher and VR Designer
MA in Mindfulness Studies, Lesley University
Jeffrey Juelsgaard began his career as a high school history and social studies teacher before turning to mindfulness full time. While earning his MA in Mindfulness Studies at Lesley University, he spent two years helping design a mindfulness and wellness app at the VR startup Reclaim Your Mind Technologies, work that shaped his graduate thesis proposing a framework for designing and evaluating mindfulness-based programs in virtual reality. He now teaches mindfulness independently, consults with others on using VR to teach it, and is exploring how to bring AI into that work thoughtfully.
Amanda Evans, M.Ed., Ph.D. Candidate
PhD Candidate & Autism Specialist
Specialist in Educational Psychology and Learning Design
Amanda Evans specializes in educational psychology and learning design, and is multi-certified in the use of artificial intelligence in education contexts. Her contribution ensures the program is not only rigorous but structured in a way that supports real learning, integration, and application. Together with Steve Haberlin, she created the Bounded Convergence Framework (BCF), the core framework this course uses to distinguish the human qualities of teaching that must stay within your care from the tasks AI can genuinely support.
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