Mindful AI Practitioner Certification
An 8-week professional formation program for mindfulness teachers, guided by the Bounded Convergence Framework, so AI strengthens your teaching without ever quietly replacing what makes it human.
8
Modules
8
Weeks
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Certificate Included
Who It's For
Built for practitioners who already hold space for others and want to do it well as AI enters the room.
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.
The Problem
AI is already reshaping how people seek support, mostly without anyone deciding it should.
AI is already changing how mindfulness is taught
Colleagues are using AI to draft scripts and lesson plans, and students are bringing AI questions into the room, with or without a framework for handling it well.
The human core of teaching is at risk of erosion
Without deliberate boundaries, the presence, authenticity, and relational attunement that define real mindfulness teaching can quietly give way to convenience.
Most teachers are integrating AI without a shared framework
Decisions about when and how to use AI are being made ad hoc, without professional judgment grounded in mindfulness ethics.
The ethical stakes are specific to this field
Participant safety, contemplative integrity, and trauma-sensitive teaching raise concerns that generic AI-ethics guidance doesn't address.
The Solution
A certification built on frameworks you can actually apply, not just recite.
A framework for what stays human
The Bounded Convergence Framework (BCF) helps you distinguish where AI can genuinely help from where your presence is irreplaceable.
A practice for pausing before you rely on AI
The Mindful AI Practitioner (MAP) practice turns discernment into a repeatable habit for every interaction with AI tools.
A way to evaluate the tools reaching your students
The Alaya Evaluative Framework gives you a rigorous way to assess AI-powered mindfulness apps and platforms.
A credential built on real teaching competency
Certification aligned with MBI:TAC teaching standards across 8 modules and 4 professional phases.
The question was never whether AI belongs in the room.It was always what we protect once it's there.
The Framework
The Mindful AI Practitioner Framework
Embody
Cultivate the qualities of an effective mindfulness teacher before integrating AI.
Discern
Learn to evaluate AI with mindfulness and professional judgment.
Design
Collaborate with AI to create meaningful, ethical, and human-centered mindfulness learning experiences.
Integrate
Develop a professional identity that remains grounded, adaptable, and deeply human as AI continues to evolve.
Core Frameworks
Three interlocking frameworks that carry you from concept to embodied 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.
The Program
Eight modules across eight weeks and four professional phases: Embody, Discern, Design, and Integrate.
Week 1 · Embody
The Human Foundations of Mindfulness Teaching
Week 2 · Embody
The Art of Mindfulness Teaching
Week 3 · Discern
Mindfulness of Generative AI
Week 4 · Discern
Creating with Multimodal AI
Week 5 · Discern
Stewardship in the Digital Mindfulness Ecosystem
Week 6 · Discern
Ethics of AI in Mindfulness Teaching
Week 7 · Design
AI as a Teaching Partner
Week 8 · Integrate
Professional Identity in an AI-Integrated World
Why Join the Founding Cohort
Ten seats. One founding cohort. Your perspective becomes part of the foundation.
Locked-In Founding Rate
80% below the future public price, locked in for good.
Direct Input on Content
Your feedback directly shapes every future cohort.
Founding Member Recognition
Featured as a founding member on our website.
Ongoing Course Discounts
Discounts on all future courses and workshops.
Your Teaching Team
Clinicians, ethicists, and embodiment practitioners, together.
Steve Haberlin, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Central Florida
Author and Researcher in Mindfulness and Digital Practice
A professor at the University of Central Florida studying how meditation, mindfulness, and emerging technology meet in higher education. He and Amanda Evans created the Bounded Convergence Framework (BCF), the core framework used throughout this course.
Jeremy Yencer, M.A.
Mindfulness Researcher & App Developer
MA in Mindfulness Studies, Lesley University
Developed Alaya Insight, an AI tool that evaluates meditation apps on their pedagogy using the MBI:TAC framework.
Jeffrey Juelsgaard, M.A.
Mindfulness Teacher and VR Designer
MA in Mindfulness Studies, Lesley University
A former high school history and social studies teacher who now designs and evaluates mindfulness experiences in virtual reality.
Amanda Evans, M.Ed., Ph.D. Candidate
PhD Candidate & Autism Specialist
Specialist in Educational Psychology and Learning Design
Specializes in educational psychology and learning design, and is multi-certified in the use of artificial intelligence in education contexts. She and Steve Haberlin created the Bounded Convergence Framework (BCF), the core framework used throughout this course.
Join Cohort 2026
One certification, priced for where you are.
Mindful AI Practitioner Certification
Now Enrolling · Cohort 2026
- 8 modules across 8 weeks and 4 professional phases
- Full access to the BCF, Alaya, and MBI:TAC frameworks
- Weekly community forum reflections and instructor-reviewed assignments
- Downloadable workbooks, exercises, and reading library
- Capstone review and Mindful AI Practitioner certificate
- Private cohort community for Cohort 2026
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We built this with accessibility in mind. Every tier gives you the exact same certification: the full 8 weeks, all 8 modules, complete access to the BCF, Alaya, and MBI:TAC frameworks, and the same credential at the end. The only difference is what you're able to pay right now. This reflects something we hold seriously: everyone deserves access, and we trust you to choose honestly based on what actually fits your circumstances.
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