mindfulness is a neutral quality of mind that we all experience. if a mindfulness INSTRUCTOR encourages you to build mindfulness in a way that dismantles your critical thinking or treats YOU as the problem that must be adjusted in all situations, that is abusive. period.
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if you feel yourself starting to use your newfound mindfulness skills to move your attention away from gut feelings or desires to make boundaries, and it feels like an instructor is encouraging you to do that, RUN.
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mindfulness can be a great discipline & foundation for other work. but orgs who fetishize it as a main practice, especially w/t regard for the fact that people experience it differently depending on things like trauma history, JUST might be keeping you frozen.
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mindfulness is a completely unregulated industry at this point, and i reject the idea that it is a student's fault for not vetting a teacher enough, especially when teacher bios can be cobbled together from absolute nonsense that will never get verified
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You really want a bunch of bureaucrats and insurance companies to "regulate" your scene, tho?
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is that the only other option you can think of? lots of communities have mechanisms of accountability and self-regulation.
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i have seen attempts to regulate mindfulness instruction in that way and they are a nightmare!
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Yes, my question was shaped by experience trying to help an HR department onboard "mindfulness training" without adding fun new liabilities to their ecosystem, it was Heck Itself
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Imagining you in this situation somehow has me completely in hysterics. Would love to have been a fly on the wall in *that* process.