Training in Mindfulness-based Cognitive behavioural therapies
Our Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) training is approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
Although it is designed as a three year part-time study, the module system allows for flexibility. You can take on as little or as much training as you prefer. 46 Units/284 hours of training (including 100 hour foundation diploma course) The advanced Diploma consists of doing training to advanced levels in MBCT, ACT and TIR, as well as completing a clinical placement of 150hours under supervision. Fees: £1850 year 1 if paid in installments or £1800/year if paid in one go. Subsequent years are about £150/year extra due to longer MBCT teacher development retreats.
4 Units
Foundation Diploma (Year 1 of Advanced Diploma)
The foundation training is the training we recommend students do first. However students may start with other training if they wish. The foundation training is a requirement for those wishing to complete the advanced diploma.
Our modular programme enables students to take this training at their own pace:
Second Year
Third Year
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Trainers: Martin Wilks MSc, C.Psychol and Henry Whitfield MSc . 8-9 June (Group Experiential) + 13-14 July (Skills Training) 2013 4 day course run over 2 weekends Fee: £525 Location: 2mins from Kings Cross Station, London WC1.
How does the very nature of human language lead to suffering? How can a person commit to living a vital and more meaningful life right now, in spite of emotional or physical pain barriers? Developed within a coherent theoretical and philosophical framework, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a unique empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies, together with commitment and behaviour change strategies, to increase psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility means contacting the present moment fully as a conscious human being, and based on what the situation affords, and changing or persisting in behaviour in the service of chosen values Introductory Workshop details: This workshop includes the traditional two day experiential introduction to ACT followed by a two day skills training workshop. The first weekend has an emphasis on applying ACT to oneself in the group, the second weekend focuses on applying ACT to one on one practice, making use of a variety of ACT video demonstrations. These two weekends are prerequisite to our intermediate ACT skills training workshop. The key concepts of ACT will be addressed, consistent with the book Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change by Steven C. Hayes, Kirk D. Strosahl, and Kelly Wilson. The 'Six Core Processes' of ACT:
Clinical Skills Training: (second weekend)
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
NEW Experiential Introduction MBCT Course:
Trainer: Martin Wilks Chartered Psychologist, BPS , AFBPsS, BSc. Psychol (hons), Dip PC Couns. MSc Couns Psychol, Dip Couns Psychol.
Dates: 14-15 Sept + 26-27 Oct 2013 4 day course Fee: £525
This four day course teaches you mindfulness interventions (meditations, every-day mindfulness and mindful movement) and will introduce you to ways of identifying and dealing with difficult physical sensations, feelings and moods commonly associated with stress, anxiety, pain and depression. The experience of working in a group can enhance one's own learning as we observe how fellow human beings grow and change. This course is also appropriate for those who just want to experience MBCT for their own wellbeing. Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy has been developed with the aim of reducing relapse and recurrence for those who are vulnerable to episodes of depression. This empowering way of working has also gained empirical validation. It is needed because the risk of relapse and recurrence in those who have been depressed is very high, and the amount of triggering required for each subsequent episode becomes lower each time depression recurs. Jon-Kabat-Zinn's book, Full Catastrophe Living (1990; New York: Delacorte) describes many of the methods used in the MBCT programme and is an excellent introduction to clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training, also applicable to chronic pain, anxiety, and stress-related physical illness.
Teacher Development - Part 1:
Trainer: Patrizia Collard PhD.
Dates: 18-22 July 2013 Fees: £680 / 620 if booked 2 months in advance
Martin Wilks Chartered Psychologist, BPS , AFBPsS BSc. Psychol (hons), Dip PC Couns. MSc Couns Psychol, Dip Couns Psychol
Martin has cultivated his personal mindfulness practice for over 25 years. For 17 yrs, working as both psychologist and visiting Buddhist minister, he facilitated mindfulness-based groups and counselling services in a central London prison. In private practice, since 2002 he has been developing the use of ACT in short term work and weaves many ACT & MBCT practices and procedures into longer term mindfulness-based psychotherapy. His research interests focus upon qualitative, participant inquiry methods exploring the integration of mindfulness meditation with counseling.
Henry J. Whitfield MSc (CBT/REBT) MBACP, Accredited Advanced TIR trainer and TIR practitioner (TIRA)
Henry founded Mindfulness Training Ltd in 2006. His research interests include the theoretical and practical integration of mindfulness with cognitive behavioural theories, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes and in case-formulated applications of mindfulness. After 4 years as a trauma specialist for Victim Support Lambeth, Henry has since conducted empirical research for City and Hackney Mind, and SPCP Regents College, London investigating the process of values within different approaches to trauma counselling. He also works in private practice, and teaches widely on the subject of Mindfulness-consistent therapies.
Dr. Patrizia C. Collard PhD, BABCP accredited, UKCP reg., MISMA, MAC
Patrizia is an experienced MBCT and MBSR trainer and is a Senior Lecturer for Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (University of East London). Patrizia was also resident in Hong Kong and China for 9 years where she studied Taoism, Buddhism, Energy work, Meditation and Yoga. Patrizia also has research interests in Autism and Mindfulness.