Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

A 3-day Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy training course from the Association for Psychological Therapies, a UK leading provider of training for professionals working in mental health and related areas. We bring this APT-Accredited course to your own organisation, for maximum cost-effectiveness, and up to 15 people can attend. (2-day version also available.)

Executive Summary:

This course concentrates much more on Mindfulness than it does on CBT. So it explains why Mindfulness meditation is likely to help recurrently depressed people, looks briefly at the published evidence that confirms that it can, and the NICE guidelines that commend it, but spends most of the time in experiential exercises and in discussing those exercises. There is a small amount of lecture input, but listening to lectures on Mindfulness is not a sensible pastime so the course focuses on understanding Mindfulness, acquiring the ability to practise Mindfulness meditation, and the ability to convey it to others.

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The course covers:

What is CBT?
What is Mindfulness? The three 'A's and the What and How.
How Mindfulness and CBT fit together.
Mindfulness and recurrent depression: the theoretical basis whereby mindfulness resolves depression.
Learning about self-awareness.
Training our attention.
'Selling' Mindfulness: persuading clients of its relevance and usefulness.
Examining your own mindfulness.
The 'Doing Mode' and the 'Being Mode'. Noticing: awareness without criticism.
'Noticing' exercises: The Mindfulness of sound. Breathing, walking and raisins.
Describing. Exercises on describing.
Mindfulness of breath: moving towards internal experiences.
Being non-judgemental.
Why is it important to be in the present moment?
Learning to tolerate the undesirable and reducing avoidance of emotions. How does mindfulness help with this?
Designing your own mindfulness exercise.
Kabat Zinn's Bodyscan Meditation.
Key skills: experiencing the undesirable, befriending your emotions.
How to apply it to your practice: developing your own practice.

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course.

Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.

Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 100,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.

How can I access this training?

Option 1: Bring the course to your organisation:

We bring this course to your own organisation a train a group of 6-15 people for a fixed, all-inclusive fee of £4,495 plus VAT for the 3-day course, or £3,330 plus VAT for the 2-day version.

To book, call (UK) 0116 241 8331, or click the button:

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Option 2: 'Train the Trainer':

If you or a colleague are a senior professional (e.g. consultant psychologist) and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become an APT-accredited tutor. You could then tutor the course - or your chosen modules from it - in your own organisation, under license.

This is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organisation the tutor-component of the fee (around 50%) each time you run it or your chosen modules.

To see the full benefits of this and to see whether you are eligible, click the button:

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Downloadable information sheet:

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NICE guidelines relevant to this course:

Depression in adults: recognition and management (CG90) ❯

As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 100,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

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What is Mindfulness? ❯

Mindfulness Training Courses ❯

Teaching Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Level 1 ❯

Teaching Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Level 2 ❯

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy ❯

Feedback Ratings.

We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course.

Average Presentation rating: 95%

Average Relevance rating: 94%

*These statistics were last updated in September 2018.

Written Feedback.

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy course has received.

“Mind blowing training ... How I love training that I can take so much away with me, both for my professional and personal life.”

“Mindfulness based CBT is one of the most valuable training sessions I have done ... It will inform my practice and private life in a significantly positive manner. The presentation and material really is of the highest standard.”