Mindfulness Courses & Training
The Mindfulness Clinic is committed to the promotion of wellbeing through the integration of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and the practice of Mindfulness. Our mission is to embody, guide and nurture mindful and compassionate living. We teach eight-week Mindfulness courses MBSR, MBCT and one-day workshops to individuals, mental health professionals, voluntary and community groups.
MIND | contemplative neuroscience training for psychotherapists and mental health professionals
2nd April 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 31st July 2024 @ 7:30 pm
| €150Overview
Online and in-person training
Commences: Monday, 29 January 2024 from 5pm to 6.30pm ONLINE
Course finishes: on Monday, 16 December 2024
As more and more therapists and mental health professionals learn about interpersonal neurobiology and contemplative practices, there is an increasing desire to translate theoretical and philosophical principles into practical applications for use with clients. Yet therapists struggle to incorporate mindfulness interventions into their practice.
Mind is a 12-month training that will enhance your practice as a mental health professional, with the latest findings from neurobiology, contemplative science and evidence-based psychotherapy.
A wide range of psychological and interpersonal issues will be addressed, including attachment, emotion, trauma, PTSD, OCD, ADHD, bipolar, borderline, anxiety, and depression. The creative and experiential interventions offer a uniquely holistic, compassionate and integrative approach to mental health and wellbeing.
MIND draws on a range of psychotherapeutic theories, including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural, narrative, polyvagal, havening, humanistic, existential, creative and mindfulness-based approaches. MIND will focus on the work of Richard Davidson, Allan Schore, Louis Cozolino, Janina Fisher, Stephen Porges, Sara Lazar, Daniel Siegel, Daniel Stern, Pat Ogden, Babette Rothschild and Shauna Shapiro.
Topics Include:
- The neuroscience of meditation
- Foundations of Buddhist psychology and wisdom traditions
- Fundamentals of mindfulness
- Practical and clinical applications of mindfulness
- The neurobiology of feeling safe and the nervous system
- Bottom-up processing, affect regulation
- The brain throughout the lifespan
- Attunement, attachment and the limbic system
- Self-directed neuroplasticity and healing
- Trauma-sensitive mindfulness
- Transpersonal and contemplative practice
- Neural integration and the social brain
- Relationships and regulation
- The neuroscience of compassion and kindness
PRACTICE:
Meditation, class practice (pro-social practices including meditations on gratitude, generosity, compassion, acceptance, loving kindness, equanimity, and advanced techniques in helping clients reframe, reconsolidate and integrate new learning through mindfulness, self-compassion and visualisation.
PROCESS:
Inquiry, guided discovery, journaling, interpersonal dynamics and creative processes using visual media.
REFLECTION:
Reflective supervision on personal practice, case work, discussion.
SEMINAR:
Interactive, experiential, group focused and collaborative learning.
RESEARCH:
Reading, reflection and discussion on current research and clinical integration of mindfulness into various practice settings. Monthly research emails with the latest research in mindfulness, neuroscience and contemplative practice.
Learn to incorporate simple step-by-step guidance for practical mindfulness interventions to help your client with acceptance, self-regulation and healing.
MIND | contemplative neuroscience training will guide participants in developing their regular mindfulness practice whilst integrating it with their therapeutic and clinical work. The process of a mindfulness-based approach to psychotherapy is facilitated through mindfulness practice, lectures and skills within the context of personal, interpersonal and group inquiry.
The training group learns to cultivate and deepen awareness as a primary psychotherapeutic and transformative tool. This program will explore the theory, research and essential skills, especially mindfulness and self-compassion, for deliberately cultivating wisdom and compassion in psychotherapy.
The training group learns to cultivate and deepen awareness as a primary psychotherapeutic and transformative tool. This program will explore the theory, research and essential skills, especially mindfulness and self-compassion, for deliberately cultivating wisdom and compassion in psychotherapy.
Online training:
Mondays, 5pm to 6.30pm, 29 January, 26 February, 25 March, 29 April, 27 May, 24 June, 29 July, 26 August, 30 September, 21 October, 25 November and 16 December, 2024.
In-Person Training:
Saturdays, Dunboyne Castle Hotel, 11 May (Trauma) and 13 October (From Shame to Self-Worth) 10am to 4.30pm or
Sundays, Rochestown Park Hotel, Cork, 12 May (Trauma) and 14 October (From Shame to Self-Worth) from 10am to 4.30pm.
Training includes:
30 hours CPD, certificate, notes, resources, flashcards, refreshments.
Cost: €250
Course Trainer:
Gerry Cunningham, MIAHIP, MIACP
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Mindfulness Training, or Mindfulness Courses, may not be considered suitable at this time for those affected with acute depression, active or recent substance alcohol or drug addictions (recommendation two years full sobriety for Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention), PTSD, Bi-polar disorder, current or past psychosis, significant long standing interpersonal difficulties, recent trauma or significant recent or unresolved loss.
The Mindfulness Clinic recommends organising a one-to-one consultation to see if this training is suitable for you at this time.
“Mindfulness is not the answer for all life’s problems. Rather it is that all life’s problems can be seen more clearly through the lens of a clear mind”. Jon Kabat-Zinn, pp. 25-26, 1991.
Acknowledgements for exclusion criteria: Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR): Standards of Practice, edited by Saki F. Santorelli, Centre for Mindfulness University of Massachusetts, Director of Stress Reduction Program, February, 2014.