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.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT/MBSR) Eight Week Online Training – Wednesday Evenings
1st March 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 1st June 2023 @ 9:00 pm
| €150Overview
19th April 2023 – 7th June 2023 | 6:30pm – 8:30pm | Also including one in-person retreat day, Sunday, 21st May 2023, 10am – 4pm
Mindfulness is about learning to pay attention to our thoughts, emotions, physical sensations, the body and the world around us – an awareness of “present experience with acceptance” (Germer et al, 2005).
Contact: info@mindfulnessclinic.ie
Participants are taught to observe their habitual automatic and unhelpful cognitive reactions while at the same time learning to interact with their thoughts and emotions in a less judgemental and more compassionate way. Mindfulness reveals a set of simple yet powerful practices that you can incorporate into daily living to help break the cycle of anxiety, stress, unhappiness and exhaustion.
In MBCT programmes, participants meet together as a class, 2 hours per week for eight weeks. We start by developing an awareness of what is happening in our experience. We do this through mindfulness practices such as the body scan, mindful yoga, sitting meditation and being mindful of other activities such as walking or eating. We learn how to be with our experience as it is, instead of pushing away unwanted thoughts, emotions or other experiences.
The main “work” is done at home between classes. Participants will receive notes for each session and a copy of Mindfulness a Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World, by Professor Mark Williams and Dr. Danny Penman. In the classes, there is an opportunity to talk about your experiences with the home practices, the obstacles that inevitably arise and how to deal with them skilfully.
Over the eight weeks of the program, the practices help you:
- to become familiar with the workings of your mind
to notice the times when you are at risk of getting caught in old habits of mind that re-activate downward mood spirals, rumination and self-destructive thoughts
- to explore ways of releasing yourself from those old habits and, if you choose, enter a different way of being
- to lower levels of emotional distress and reduce levels of stress
- to put you in touch with a different way of knowing yourself and the world
- to notice small beauties and pleasures in the world around you instead of living in your head
- to be kind to yourself instead of wishing things were different all the time, or driving yourself to meet impossible goals
- to find a way so you don’t have to battle with yourself all the time
- to accept yourself as you are, rather than judging yourself all the time
Research shows that Mindfulness is enormously empowering for clients with chronic pain, hypertension, heart disease, cancer and gastrointestinal disorders, as well as for psychological problems such as anxiety, panic, stress and relapse prevention for clients in remission from depression or recovery from addiction.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) was designed specifically to help people who are prone to recurring depression and low mood. MBCT has been adapted for working with anxiety, bi-polar, OCD and digital/online classes.
Course commences Wednesday evenings: from 6:30pm to 8:30pm commencing 19th April – ending 7th June 2023: cost €350 euro Cost of training: €350 includes 16 hours mindfulness training, notes, and resources. Also including one in-person retreat day, Sunday, 21st May 2023, 10am – 4pm.
Mindfulness eight-week training courses do not qualify for certification or CPD points or certificates of attendance.
“It has greatly exceeded my expectations having done mindfulness before. I feel that anything I was doing before is now completely strengthened and improved by this experience. It was a pleasure to be a part of this course and I am accrediting the course to my contentment and improving happiness”. Participant on MBSR/MBCT
Contact: info@mindfulnessclinic.ie
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.