MD-5 · Mindful Dive Instructor Trainer™
Training instructors. Stewarding the standard.
Twenty-two modules: orientation and the capstone shift, then seventeen advanced modules on the trainer role, standards governance and decision rights, faculty selection, train-the-trainer learning design, modeling and deliberate practice, mentoring and supervision, assessment design, assessor calibration and bias control, safety leadership and human factors, ethics and safeguarding, curriculum stewardship and change control, quality audits and incident learning, regional implementation, research and evidence governance, digital academy and accessibility, ocean and happiness leadership, trainer wellbeing and succession — plus the seven-day Trainer Academy, the supervised MD-4 cohort and the portfolio, viva and trainer panel.
- ≈ 14–16 h
- supervised cohort
The e-learning issues a knowledge-complete credential. Authorization as an Instructor Trainer is completed through the supervised Authorization Practicum — a co-taught MD-4 cohort, a trainer portfolio and a viva with the Standards Council.
Modules
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Safety first
Everything trained here sits entirely within the candidate's agency standards, ratios and dive plan; agency standards and emergency procedures always outrank any optional practice. Slow, continuous breathing only — never breath-holding, skip-breathing or hypoventilation on scuba. Optional attention cues are removed whenever task load, control, conditions or procedure make them inappropriate. Trainer scope is non-clinical: nothing in MD-5 is therapy, diagnosis or medical assessment, and no outcome is ever promised. Reviewed by the Safety & Dive Medicine Board.