MBCT 8-week course

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy

8-week course (1 hour session per week).

For the ruminating mind…

Learn how to be the observer of your thoughts and not the thought itself. Build awareness and attention training so you become the witness of your mind and your mind looses its hold on you.

Overview

The aim of the MBCT program is to help participants make a radical shift in their relationship to thoughts, feelings, and body sensations

All it takes is simple habits like brushing your teeth, implementing MBCT practices into your life can improve your well-being and make positive lasting changes to your life.

MBCT will help you to:

• Recognise patterns in the mind, low mood and body cues which can help you to prevent anxiety, stress and depression.
• Respond and not react to triggers and emotions.
• To anchor yourself in the present moment appreciating and having more pleasure and gratitude for the small things in life, allowing yourself to step off the trap of being caught in the rush before the busy pace of life takes control of all.
• Helps with the fear of the future or the replay of the past and find more peace in the present with acceptance and non judgment.
• To go from ‘doing’ mode to being ‘mode’. Often we try to fix and solve our problems which can accelerate a ruminating mind which can spiral out of control. These fears can prevent us from living the life we want to live. Training ourselves to work from the ‘being’ mode can help us to experience the world with more presence and life. Offering more peace of mind and clarity.
• Take yourself off the battlefield with your thoughts and emotions. Often we try to suppress strong emotions and feelings which doesn’t help. Learning to have the courage to experience our pain helps to let these sensations, worries and emotions come and go. We become the observer of our thoughts and not the thoughts themselves and this awareness is extremely powerful. This promotes a sense of self-compassion and kindness.

Both the research data and our clinical experience suggest to us that only when people learn to take a different stance in relation to the “battleground” of their thoughts and feelings will they be able in the future to recognise difficult situations early and deal with them skillfully. Taking this different stance involves sampling a different mode of mind from which we normally inhibit, and which much therapy also inhibts. It involves replacing the old mode of fixing and repairing problems with a new mode of allowing things to be just as they are, in order to see more clearly how best to respond. (p.93)

Segal, Z, Williams, M and Teasdale J. (2018)
Mindfulness – Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression. (Second Edition) The Guilford Press.

This course is in line with BAMBA (British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches), it is included in the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and used by NHS (National Health Service UK). The course was created and taught as clinical psychologists Zindel Segal PhD, Mark Williams DPhil and John Teasdale PhD intended, which is approved and followed by the Mindfulness Founder Jon Kabatt-Zinn PhD.

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