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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy |
A 5-Day Professional Training for the Prevention of Depression Relapse |
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| July 29, 2007 - August 3, 2007 |
| Rhinebeck Campus: Rhinebeck, NY (US) |
| Tuition: $925 (does not include accommodations or commuter fee)
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| Course: SM07-3205-702 |
Tuition discounts are not available.
Continuing education credits.
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| Registration for this workshop is by application only. See application information below. | | |
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is an innovative program designed to prevent relapse in people who have recovered from unipolar depression. Based on the research of Drs. Zindel Segal, John Teasdale, and Mark Williams and documented in their book Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, the program combines the practice and clinical application of mindfulness meditation with the tools of cognitive therapy.
This workshop emphasizes the importance of the clinician's own meditation practice and self-inquiry, especially how to bring self-knowledge gained through sustained meditative practice to bear on helping clients in emotional distress. The heart of this work lies in encountering those modes of mind that often characterize mood disorders, while simultaneously learning to develop a new relationship to these modes. Thoughts come to be seen as events in the mind, independent of their content and emotional charge. They need not be disputed, fixed, or changed but are held in a more spacious awareness, large enough to contain aspects of the self deemed both broken and whole. This is the practice of mindfulness.
This program explores through role-plays, simulated classroom, and patient-practitioner encounters the actual application of mindfulness practices in teaching MBCT to clients. This rigorous course mixes didactic, experiential, and small group learning, and includes daily meditations, yoga, and periods of silence.
CME and CE are available and included in the tuition. Enrollment, by application only, is limited to 50 and requires a $10 nonrefundable application fee (payable to Omega). For more information, call Omega at 800.944.1001. Enrollment is limited to 50 and is open by application only to health-care professionals who already have a mindfulness meditation practice and are cognitive therapists, or who are Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teachers with a background and/or practice in cognitive therapy. Applicants are required to send a resume of no more than two pages and a cover letter that details any personal development, educational, or career experience you would like the instructors to know about. It should also detail your experience with and practice of cognitive therapy and your meditation experience, including years of practice, regularity of practice, as well as the tradition(s) in which you practice. Also explain why you want to attend this training. There is a $10 nonrefundable application fee. Send your application by e-mail to classapplication@eomega.org (subject line "Segal Application"); if you e-mail your application we will be contacting you for your credit card for the application fee. Although e-mail is preferred, you may also mail your application to Omega attn Randi (include a check made out to Omega Institute for the application fee). Once the application has been reviewed and a decision made, the participant will be notified.
Special schedule. Required reading: Segal, Teasdale, and Williams, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression.
Zindel Segal, Ph.D., holds the Morgan Firestone Chair in Psychotherapy in the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Toronto. He is a professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology and the Director of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Unit at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. www.mbct.com
Susan Woods, M.S.W., has designed and led mindfulness-based programs in hospital and outpatient settings and has practiced meditation and yoga since 1981. www.mbct.com |
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