The 2026 Mindfulness in Law Teacher Training

Virtual Gatherings on Zoom

• Community Gatherings: our virtual community gatherings happen on Zoom on Sundays at 10am-noon Pacific (UTC -7).
• Recordings: all community gatherings are recorded and posted to our learning platform (“LMS”), to which you’ll have evergreen access.
• Practice Groups: your small, curated, practice group will also meet on Zoom, twice a month, at an agreed-upon time.
• Mentoring: available, one-on-one mentoring is also on Zoom.

In Person Gatherings

• Everyone is invited, and expected to attend.
• In person gatherings are part retreat, part interactive, and 100% joy.
• We’ll have two, one-week gatherings: February 8-13 and September 13-18.
• Gatherings will be at Westerbeke Ranch in Sonoma, California, a gorgeous campus with delicious food and comfy shared accommodations.
• Westerbeke Ranch is a one-hour drive north from San Francisco. If you’re coming from far, you can fly to San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, or Santa Rosa airport, and then out.

Independent & Collaborative Work

• Resources: we provide numerous suggested reading, listening, and viewing options, on the LMS, from a broad range of mindfulness teachers and traditions.
• Monthly Writing & Speaking: each month you’re invited to write one talk and develop one guided meditation, offer those your practice group, and in this way, build a mindfulness portfolio to use after graduation.
• Certification: there’s an option – but not a requirement – to create and deliver a final project if you choose to become certified to teach.

Our core curriculum is broad and deep, offered by our lead and support teachers who have decades of experience teaching mindfulness and yoga to legal professionals. Our guest teachers bring complimentary perspectives and topics. Here is an overview of our core curriculum:

• Foundations of Mindfulness & Contemplative Neuroscience: classical teachings + researched-backed understandings of mindfulness and the legal mind.
• Applied Mindfulness and Yoga: mindfulness, yoga, and wellbeing and their direct application in the courtroom, conference room, classroom, and community.
• Skills for Teaching & Leading: how to guide meditations and simple movement practices, lead trainings, and speak confidently and credibly about mindfulness and wellbeing in the law.
• Working with Emotions: trainings in practices like self-compassion, patience, open-mindedness, and resilience, and in how to offer these practices to others.
• Systemic Issues: tools for transformation in corporate, criminal, immigration, family, estate and probate, and other legal settings.
• Trauma Sensitivity & Ethics: how to hold space in the profession with care and inclusion.

The MLTT community is unlike any other legal community we know of – and unique in the world as well. We are bilingual: we are a community of legal practitioners, so we speak the language of the law, and a community of mindfulness practitioners, so we speak the language of mindfulness. We care about one another: we take time to ground, check in, support one another. We believe everyone matters: it’s important to us that everyone feels they are included and belong.

• We Offer Passionate, Compassionate Learning: we are beyond enthusiastic about the teachings we offer, and also offer loving support as you engage in the challenging investigation of the heart and mind, beginning with your own.
• We Love to Mentor: each student is an integral part of our whole community plus one small practice group, and is also invited to create a one-on-one mentoring relationship with one of our teachers.
• We are Committed to Online and In Person Connection: from opening day to farewell, online and in person, together we’ll co-create safe space, brave space, and a sense of connection, inclusivity, and belonging for everyone.
• Our WorldWide Network of MLTT Alums: upon completion of MLTT 2026, the MLTT alumni community will welcome you to join our monthly gatherings, for support, mentoring, and compassion.

Our alumni are offering trainings, programming, coaching, and law school classes, in the U.S., Canada, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Here are a few things they’re up to:

• Offering mindfulness training to public interest lawyers throughout the U.S.
• Bringing mindfulness to public defenders, district attorneys, and combined groups of both.
• Teaching mindfulness to judges and mediators in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Europe.
• Speaking about mindfulness and risk management in large, medium-sized, and small firms and legal organizations.
• Offering mindfulness at law schools in North America, South America, Europe, China, and Australia.
• Speaking about mindfulness and offering mindfulness trainings for the AAPI Bar Association, various Women’s Bar Associations, NBLSA and local BLSAs, AILA, ABA Sports & Entertainment Lawyer meetings, and other U.S. state and local bar associations.
• Developing mindfulness-based coaching and training programs for corporate and public interest firms and organizations, and for individuals.
• Leading county-wide, weekly meditation sittings…
  …and much more

We are so proud of our alums!

Inclusivity

One of the strengths of MLTT lies in the inclusiveness of our community.

We extend a warm invitation to applicants of all ethnicities, races, classes, genders, ages, religions and spiritualities, physical abilities, and sexual orientations; to change-makers of all kinds; to those who are the first in their family to attend college or law school; to those whose resilience arose by having overcome adversity; to those from communities historically underrepresented in the law or in mindfulness practice and teaching or both; and to those who serve or intend to serve underrepresented communities.

We also welcome applicants in BigLaw, small and mid-sized firms, and solo practitioners; commercial, personal injury, family, and estate and probate lawyers; immigration and criminal lawyers on both sides of the aisle; law students, law professors, adjuncts, and lecturers; judges, mediators and arbitrators; professional development leaders, coaches, and others inspiring greater wellbeing in the law; those working in politics; and those working adjacent to the law.

We welcome applicants from various streams of contemplative practice. Although our training emphasizes the classical teachings of mindfulness, we honor and are proud to count among our alumni those who are teaching in secular, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, yogic, and indigenous traditions.

We welcome applicants from everywhere. Our alumni live and work in North and South America, Asia, Europe, and Australia, deepening their own mindfulness and wellbeing, and bringing mindfulness and wellbeing to their colleagues, students, and legal communities.

Ethics

We honor the roots of our practice, including all of our teachers and the earth. We acknowledge the lands upon which we each live, work, and teach. Our commitment is to non-harming, wisdom, and compassion.

Belonging

We commit to co-creating loving, caring, safe, trauma-sensitive space, and to teaching with those precepts as our foundation. We model inclusivity and wellbeing within MLTT.

Applying to MLTT 2026

• The MLTT 2026 application will be available on July 25th.
• If you have already joined our Early Applicants list, you will have an opportunity to apply early to MLTT 2026, as of July 1st. That list is now closed.
• The application invites you to share your experience with law, teaching, and mindfulness practice, your intentions for the program and for utilizing the tools and practices you’ll learn, and quite a bit more. We’re interested in who you are, so we hope you’ll take the time to sit with and ponder the questions. We also hope you’ll bring a joyful attitude towards your application!

Admission

• Each of our teachers reads each application, through various lenses. We are interested in your experiences as a professional and as a meditator, but we are equally interested in your commitment to developing your practice and to service.
• We are looking for participants who are committed to mindfulness and either interested in offering mindfulness to others or cultivating their own practice, and who are enthusiastic about being part of our community.

Tuition + Room & Board

• Tuition for MLTT 2026 is $4,250.
• Room & board at Westerbeke Ranch, including all meals, in shared accommodations (there are no singles), is $2,600 total, which covers both in person gatherings.
• We offer an option to pay in installments of either three or six months.