Jake Dartington has been practicing meditation since 1995 and has spent many months on silent retreat. He completed a three-year dharma teacher training with Christina Feldman in the UK and started to teach retreats in 2007. He has worked with Gaia House, London Insight, Bodhi College, Oxford Mindfulness Centre, and the European Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches. Jake also was a college teacher for many years and has master’s degrees in philosophy, Buddhist studies, and mindfulness-based approaches.
His mentoring style is collaborative, seeing his role as facilitating students’ own process of discovery. He enjoys giving feedback that encourages people and includes specific suggestions on how to do things differently. Jake has taught in retreat centers, colleges and universities, charities, and the corporate sector and loves adapting his style of teaching to different settings while remaining true to the essential principles of mindfulness practice.