Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy : Teacher Development - Part 1

Trainers: Patrizia Collard PhD & Helen Stephenson
Training Dates: 18-22 July 2013
Fee: £680 / 620 if paid 2 months in advance
Location: 11mins from London Bridge by train.
Accommodation available at the same venue for £30/night (Only 2 rooms)



The second part of this training is taken one year after completing Part-1. Click here for details of mindfulness-based Teacher Training Part 2 Programme.

This five day intensive training module will facilitate the deepening of your personal mindfulness practice. The main focus will be on developing sound teaching skills in MBCT and skills in inquiry and dialoque. The course will be interacticve and experiential to a large extent. You will need to demonstrate teaching skills in small groups and discuss your journals with one-another.

This training is in line with established MBCT trainer training standards and will require you to do meditational homework. However, there is currently no official accreditation or qualification existant for MBCT, even though the academic institutions have established particular standards (to which we adhere).

Participants will need to have proof of the following essential attendance criteria:

• Having attended our MBCT Experiential Introduction Workshop or an eight week MBCT course else where
• Having professional training and experience in the context within which you plan to teach/integrate mindfulness.
• Having a real commitment to engage in this style of learning (non fixing, letting things evolve, suspending habitual ways of thinking, engaging into a process of ‘being’ and ‘unfolding’, working from the heart and with compassion).
• Experience of daily mindfulness practice over at least one year. Sufficient depth of personal experience of mindfulness practice to begin the development of competency in teaching. (Having practiced with co-horts or friends the various aspects of teaching required for delivering the eight week course).
• In depth personal experience of the three main practices taught in mindfulness-based approaches (body scan, sitting practice and mindful movement practice).
• Having attended at least one week - silent retreat and a few one or two day retreats where mindfulness or insight meditation were experienced.
• Having read ‘Full Catastrophe Living’ and ‘Mindfulness based cognitive therapy for depression.
  
• You are required to submit a brief journal (2000 words maximum) a month prior to the starting date of this course. The journal should include a summary of your regular practice (including difficulties that came up and how you dealt with them). Then journal must be printed and posted to 45 Lowther Hill, London SE23 1PZ (not e-mail). It should contain dates and experiences of retreats, some information on regular practice and insight into 'strengths and weaknesses' of own practice. It does not have to be a daily log. It can also contain some feedback on the two main texts that need to be read prior to the course.

Click here for details of mindfulness-based Teacher Training Part 2 Programme.

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.

Helen Stephenson

Helen Stephenson is a REP's (Register of Exercise Professionals) registered yoga and Pilates teacher level 4 and back care specialist. She has 30 years teaching experience and is the visiting yoga teacher at the Buddhist meditation centre Gaia House, Devon. Since 1979 she attended retreats with Senior Insight Meditation Teachers Christopher Titmuss, Christina Feldman, Jack Kornfield, Joseph Goldstein et al. She trained in body-centred therapy (Wilhelm Reich and Hakomi) and holds the Relate Diploma in Systemic Therapy. She trained in MBCT with Dr. Patrizia Collard.