The Mindful Parenting & Teaching Trainer Course is a specialized, one-year training in the Eline Snel Method. During this training, you will learn how to deliver a practical and compassionate eight-week mindfulness training focused on teachers, healthcare professionals and parents.

The focus is on supporting these target groups in developing self-care, stress management and emotion regulation so that they are better able to approach both their work and private situations with greater mindfulness and resilience. You will not only learn to convey the content of the training, but also how to guide participants in integrating mindfulness into their daily lives.

The course provides an in-depth theoretical foundation, combined with plenty of practical experience, so that you can confidently and effectively deliver training aimed at improving well-being in both professional and personal contexts.

  • Training in Mindfulnes Parenting & Teacher Training.

    This specialized training to become a Mindfulness trainer for teachers, healthcare professionals and parents meets a great need to continue working and educating with heart and soul. Children and adults experience high levels of stress: classroom turmoil, behavioral problems and feeling "too much" are on the rise, while inner peace is waning. "The on button" works, but the "pause button" does not. Good teaching is not just about knowledge transfer, but affects important values, behaviors and the way we treat ourselves and each other. For children to perform at their own level requires inner peace and conscious attention. To teach and educate well yourself from inner peace also requires attention and conscious presence.

  • Method Eline Snel®

    The Method Eline Snel® is universal, practical, comprehensive and compassionate. Eline developed all trainings for children, adolescents and professionals working with children and adolescents, in practice. You feel this in everything. The roots of both the training and the development of the Method Eline Snel lie in 30 years of experience of Eline as a therapist, mindfulness and compassion trainer and comes to life together with the ancient wisdom of the Vipassana meditation tradition.

Mindfulness Youth Trainer Training Course

During the Mindful Parenting & Teaching Trainer training you will learn how to teach the specialized eight-week Mindfulness training to professionals working with children and to parents. Eline Snel has developed this training in practice for four years. The training is now given by many trained teachers to other teachers at school, as well as by child psychologists/psychiatrists to their colleagues and/or parents of children who indicate they would like it.

During the training year, we will cover different topics. Below is a brief explanation of the content of the Mindful Parenting & Teaching Trainer training.

Preparation for training

We ask you to prepare prior to the training, you do this through the following:

  • Reading the books Sitting Still Like a Frog, The Little Frog and Giving Space & Being Close by Eline Snel
  • The whole brain, the whole child by Daniel Siegel to read
  • Reading With Children Growing by Jon Kabat-Zinn and Myla Kabat-Zinn
  • Listening to and experiencing all the audio accompanying Eline's books.
During the course, the training will delve deeper into:
  • The main three basic psychological needs of every human being
  • From DOING to BEING: how do you do it?
  • Reflection on personal experiences from own childhood
  • The courage to feel feelings and recognize the influence of feelings and thoughts on behavior
  • From impulsivity to awareness of (automatic) behavior. What important role does attention training play in this?
  • Feeling boundaries and your (un)conscious reaction to them
  • Working with Mindfulness qualities in parenting, education and mental health care
  • Application of the theme of stress in the eight-week program.
  • Attention to the physiology of stress and stress-related behaviors.
  • Practicing with inquiry
  • Communication: awareness of old patterns in conflict situations. Practicing "dramming tolerance." Awareness of possible new styles of communication.
  • Quality time and trust: what does this mean in parenting, education and care?
  • The importance of compassion and self-compassion in parenting and working with children
Supervision aspects in training:
  • Preparing and delivering an 8-week pilot training course including pre- and post-conversations
  • Writing a final paper, which highlights the program, reflection on your way of guiding, your personal learning process, guiding inquiry and your role as a Mindfulness trainer

for professionals who work in education, care or are otherwise professionally involved with child rearing or care issues within parenting (Mindful Parenting).

Main learning output:

  • The student, after certification, can independently conduct mindfulness training according to the principles of the Method Eline Snel for parents, teachers and professionals working with children, at school, in private practice, or in their own institution. 

Partial learning outcomes:

  • The student knows the structure, construction and essence of the lessons in the Method Eline Snel and the trainer's manual, and can follow them in their implementation;
  • The student knows the art of inquiry and can conduct conversations with adults from this theory;
  • The student knows the importance of (self-)compassion and the dangers of transference, and can use this knowledge in lessons;
  • The student will be able to name the effects of mindfulness in adults and the their brain.

The training takes one year. During eight teaching days of four times two modules, you will learn everything needed, to start training Mindful Parenting & Teaching. After this begins a longer process, of continuing to deepen personally, teaching an eight-week pilot training yourself and writing a reflection on your own learning.


The Mindful Parenting & Teaching Trainer, Method Eline Snel training includes:

  • Intake procedure with an accompanying telephone intake interview
  • 70 contact hours during training
  • 80 hours will be spent preparing course materials and delivering an eight-week pilot training to adults in your target audience
  • 40 hours spent reading related literature
  • 1x one-hour supervision call via video calling.
  • 40 hours are required for preparing and writing your final report
  • 2x a recording of two whole lessons taught by you

Just as you expect commitment and compassion from us, we expect the same from you. Therefore, to obtain the certificate, it is important that you meet the following requirement:

  • Attending 100% of all training days
  • Two supervision calls (mandatory) to follow and deepen your personal learning process (request via amt@elinesnel.com). The costs for this supervision session are €85 excluding VAT - these costs will be invoiced separately after the session
  • Giving a pilot in your own target group (to at least three or more adults, who are not relatives)
  • Writing a report on your pilot experiences (12 to 14 pages)
  • After certification, make the frog seal visible on all your own PR materials and website

The cost for this year-long Mindful Parenting & Teaching Trainer training is €1995. This fee includes all materials required to attend the training. During the training days coffee, tea and lunch are included

Trainings take place in the forests of Leusden and Amersfoort. The address is Landgoed de Heuvelkamp, Kerkweg 7 in Leusden.

  • Completion of an eight-week MBSR or MBCT training course
  • Completion of silent retreat of five consecutive days, prior to or during the training year

Working with children/youth and/or parents in education, mental health, regular health care or own practice

Certification as a Mindful Parenting & Teaching Trainer in the Method Eline Snel takes place after you have met all prerequisites.