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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

'Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy' is a 3-day course from the Association for Psychological Therapies (APT), a leading provider of accredited courses for professionals working in mental health and related areas in the UK and Ireland.

It is the only Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) training that is APT-accredited and also gives you access to APT’s relevant downloadable resources for use post-course. The course is available for teams and individuals and can be attended face-to-face or online. (2-day version also available.)

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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.

Who should attend this course?

Mindfulness has very wide application, and people who attend this course normally fall into one of two categories:

1. Professionals who see patients in 1:1 treatment settings, have a significant degree of clinical skill, and wish also to be able to teach Mindfulness to patients.

2. 'Whole teams' (either in inpatient or community settings) seeking to develop a common approach to Mindfulness.

The professional affiliations of people attending this course include: mental health/psychiatric nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, clinical psychologists, educational psychologists, psychiatrists, probation officers and others working in a variety of settings including: Adult Mental Health, Children and Adolescents, Older People, Substance Misuse, Forensic.

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 and access to the online exam if you wish to uprate your APT accreditation to Level 2.

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 125,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.

Booking this training is easy... Booking Options...  for individuals or small groups  for teams and organisations For individuals or small groups: Option 1: Online Live course: a live event hosted online via Zoom. (And you don’t even have to have your own Zoom account.) A live and interactive online course, ask questions, make your observations, ‘Chat’ to other delegates. Open for you to attend from your home or workplace. Choose from one of the following dates to attend (3-days):   30th June - 2nd July 2021   18-20 July 2022 Price: £320 plus VAT per person. The fee covers: tuition, hardcopy workbook*, certification, registration, and accreditation at APT’s Level 1, with option to sit the online exam to upgrade to Level 2. Times: 10am - 3pm daily (including 45 minutes for lunch.) *PDF workbooks are sent to those outside of the UK. Book Now Top of page For teams and organisations: Option 1: Face-to-Face Onsite course: We bring the course and tutor to you, for an all-inclusive fee. Price (3-day version): £4,495 plus VAT for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: £300 plus VAT per person.  Price (2-day version): £3,330 plus VAT for a group of up to 15 people. Extra delegates: £200 plus VAT per person. To book, call (UK) 0116 241 8331, or click the button: Book Now Top of page Option 2: Online Live and Exclusive course: Live, interactive online course exclusively for your team or organisation. Price (3-day version): £3,870 plus VAT for a group of up to 15 people (workbooks for every delegate are included in this price - if you require workbooks being sent to more than one location, there is an extra charge of £5 per extra address). Extra delegates £240 plus VAT per person.  Price (2-day version): £2,850 plus VAT for a group of up to 15 people (workbooks for every delegate are included in this price - if you require workbooks being sent to more than one location, there is an extra charge of £5 per extra address). Extra delegates £160 plus VAT per person. Book Now Top of page Option 3: '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: Check eligibility criteria Top of page

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 125,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

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What is Mindfulness?  ❯

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Teaching Mindfulness in Clinical Practice, Level 2  ❯

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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 taken from ten runnings of this course.

Average Presentation rating: 95%

Average Relevance rating: 94%

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.”

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Course Overview
Course Title	Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Category	Mindfulness
Accreditation Offered	APT Accreditation Level 1
Rating	(9.5/10)
Duration	3 days
CPD Hours Earned	18
Location(s)	Onsite Course Venue: Various (at your organisation)
Access Modes	Onsite
Onsite Course	Onsite Course Booking Form
Course Tutor	APT Accredited Tutor
Course Code	MND002