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SUMMARY:Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for cancer: Masterclass
DESCRIPTION:An online day workshop for mindfulness teachers and those in training. Learning from the approach of working with people with cancer and those with life limiting or life threatening illness. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis workshop is led by Trish Bartley\, an expert in this topic and author of MBCT for Cancer\, Gently Turning Towards (Bartley\, 2012)\, Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer (Bartley\, 2017). \n\n\n\nThis masterclass will introduce you to the rewards and challenges of working mindfully with people who have had cancer\, or life threatening / life limiting illness. You will be encouraged to transfer your learning from the MBCT for Cancer approach to your own mindfulness practice and teaching. We will particularly focus on: \n\n\n\n\nGroup process including inquiry\n\n\n\nBrief everyday practices\n\n\n\nFour Movements of Intention\, Coming Back\, Turning Towards and Kindness.\n\n\n\nWorking with the body and anxiety in the context of cancer / serious illness\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop format\n\n\n\nThe masterclass will be facilitated through a participative and experiential process\, giving you lots of opportunities to try out practices\, exercises and approaches\, and reflecting on them in small groups. There will be an emphasis on offering a choice to engage in whatever is best for you and your learning. There will be some didactic process\, but most ‘teaching’ will come out of the group process reflections\, inquiries and exercises. We hope you will find the masterclass to be engaging\, varied and easy to participate within a safe and inclusive group process. \n\n\n\nThere will be a focus on ensuring your learning is transferable across to your own teaching\, whether you work with general public\, workplace courses\, offer drop in or short taster sessions\, or within specialist courses for particular populations. However\, this masterclass will not equip you to teach MBCT for Cancer directly – but hopefully it may whet your appetite to do so in the future! \n\n\n\nWorkshop content\n\n\n\nWe will explore a number of core practices\, guided in ways that meet the needs of people who have sensitivities in different parts of the body and challenges in the heart mind. We will also bring horizontal and some vertical inquiry into our process following practice\, to show ways of safely involving the whole group as we lean into a sense of normalising and common humanity. \n\n\n\nPeople who have had cancer or serious illness are apt to experience significant anxiety and distress at times– and tend to fall into patterns of anxious rumination. We will look at a model of health anxiety that is central to week 4 in MBCT-Ca – and show how Turning Towards gently and gradually can be transformative\, if held in a way that is grounded and embodied by the teacher. \n\n\n\nIf time\, we will explore various curriculum exercises special to MBCT for Cancer that also work well with other populations. These will include ‘The Blob’ – that explores a way that contraction can build to amplify difficulty – and ‘The Sea of Reactions’ – another exercise within MBCT for Cancer that works well online and in person. You will also be able to experience for yourself the way that brief practices can be used in class and in everyday life. \n\n\n\nWho is this for?\n\n\n\nThis masterclass is for anyone teaching mindfulness based programmes\, whoever they teach – and those in training to teach Mindfulness Based Programmes. It is relevant to those who are experienced and those who are just beginning. It is not necessary to want to teach people with cancer or serious illness in order to benefit from this masterclass. The session will be led in a way that enables the learning from this approach to be as transferable as possible to whatever context you work in. \n\n\n\nThe facilitator\n\n\n\nTrish Bartley\n\n\n\n\nTrish Bartley\n\n\n\nTrish Bartley has been teaching mindfulness to people with cancer since 2001 – working clinically in a North Wales hospital (and the local community) for over twenty years. She was supervised by John Teasdale for many years to adapt\, tailor and publish MBCT for people with cancer. (Bartley\, 2012). Later she wrote and published a book for people with cancer themselves Mindfulness: A kindly approach for people with cancer (Bartley\, 2017). Trish has also co-written Teaching Mindfulness Based Groups (Bartley & Griffith\, 2022) and is currently finishing Mindfulness and Cancer\, an update book to the MBCT for Cancer programme\, which will come out next year. \n\n\n\nTrish teaches for Mindfulness Network and Oxford in the UK\, several European mindfulness training organisations\, and sometimes further afield such as in China and South Africa. This includes general mindfulness pathway trainings\, specialist training around cancer\, groupwork training\, and leading retreats\, and offering supervision. \n\n\n\n\nCertificates\n\n\n\nThis masterclass is valid for ongoing personal development in mindfulness. Certificates of attendance can be supplied on completion of the day’s training\, if requested. \n\n\n\nHow to book\n\n\n\nYou can book for your ticket for this masterclass here.  \n\n\n\nAs part of our equity\, diversity and inclusion policy\, we also have a limited number of concessionary tickets available on a first-come\, first-served basis. These are for people who are facing acute financial hardship and who would otherwise not be able to attend. To request a concession ticket please email spft.smc@nhs.net. \n\n\n\nWe are striving to make our courses accessible for all. If you have additional needs or learning styles\, please let us know so we can support you. 
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/mindfulness-based-cognitive-therapy-for-cancer/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Advanced,Masterclass
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SUMMARY:Same (but different): Neurodiversity-friendly mindfulness practice
DESCRIPTION:It has become increasingly obvious that there are many people who might benefit from mindfulness-based interventions who struggle to access what is currently available in the UK. \n\n\n\nThis workshop will cover ways of making mindfulness more inclusive and accessible for adults who identify as neurodivergent. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhat is covered?\n\n\n\nA stimulating morning/afternoon where we will be looking at what’s working well and what’s not working so well in four areas \n\n\n\n\nThe experience of mindfulness and mindful self-compassion training from a participant perspective (Hannah)\n\n\n\nThe experience of mindfulness teaching training (from a trainee perspective) (Libby)\n\n\n\nThe experience of increasing inclusion working in talking therapies in the NHS setting (Julie)\n\n\n\nA “blue skies” approach looking from a systems level perspective on the landscape of mindfulness research and clinical practice with some case studies of really “doing mindfulness differently” (Tamara)\n\n\n\n\nThe format\n\n\n\nEach facilitator will share a 30-minute talk followed by a 10-minute mindfulness practice. And for those attending the live event\, there will also be 10-minutes of Q&A with each facilitator\, a breakout group to explore “what stops innovation in mindfulness in the UK” and a panel discussion. There will be plenty of short breaks throughout the day as well as a lunch break. You can see the detailed timetable here \n\n\n\nWho is this for?\n\n\n\nThis event is for anyone who is a mindfulness/mindful self-compassion teacher or working with mindfulness in adult populations in a professional capacity who wishes to know more about how to make mindfulness more inclusive. \n\n\n\nWhere?\n\n\n\nThis is an online event that will be held on the Zoom platform. \n\n\n\nClick here to find out more about how to use Zoom. \n\n\n\nWe endeavour to make this meeting friendly to all brain types. \n\n\n\nWe kindly request \n\n\n\n\nHave your camera on if you are comfortable to do so\, but if not\, please do keep it off. It’s helpful for you to let our moderator know you are there in a private message.\n\n\n\nFeel free to take care of yourself in whatever way you need to – stim and wiggle – but we request that if you are making large movements that may distract others\, please turn off the camera.\n\n\n\nPlease use the chat box for questions. We have a moderator to help the speakers ensure all questions are answered. If there is not sufficient time\, we will collate the questions and the speakers have kindly agreed to answer them and we will circulate after the event.\n\n\n\nPlease remain on mute.\n\n\n\nFeel free to use emojis to let us know how things are landing.\n\n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRobert Marx\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Marx\n\n\n\nRobert Marx is co-lead for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre and leads the Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy in Talking Therapies in NHS services training centres collaboration. He is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist and has been teaching mindfulness to patients and staff in the NHS for almost twenty years. \n\n\n\nHe teaches Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy\, Mindful Self-Compassion and leads Compassionate Leadership Training.  \n\n\n\nRobert has been practising Buddhist meditation for over 30 years\, initially in the Theravadan tradition and then in the Tibetan tradition. He is passionate about building compassionate cultures in organisations and about integrating relational and mindful approaches to work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTamara Russell\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nTamara Russell\n\n\n\nTamara is the Founder and Director of the Mindfulness Centre of Excellence (UK)\, an innovation thinktank for secular mindfulness. She is a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist specialising in “brainwise” formulated mindfulness adaptations for groups and individuals.  She has been leading a multi-disciplinary “protocol free” mindfulness teacher training in Brasil based on her Body in Mind Training approach (brainwise mindful movement) for more than fifteen years. \n\n\n\nTamara specialises in making mindfulness accessible to those who struggle to access “classical” mindfulness protocols for personal or systemic reasons. This includes creating many bespoke mindfulness interventions and providing supervision to those innovating in mindfulness delivery. \n\n\n\nJulie James\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulie James\n\n\n\nJulie is a mindfulness practitioner and Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist\, working within an NHS Talking Therapies service. She regularly runs Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression groups\, as well as Breathworks’ mindfulness for health groups\, to adults experiencing mental health difficulties. As mindfulness lead\, Julie provides Supervision and CPD to qualified mindfulness teachers and trainees.  \n\n\n\nJulie trained with the Anna Freud centre and now provides training to NHS colleagues\, to improve service provision when working with diagnosed and undiagnosed autistic adults in community mental health settings. As an autistic person\, she has found mindfulness-based interventions and practices deeply supportive and transformative in her own self-discovery and wellbeing. Julie draws on her specialist training and lived experience to make mindfulness provisions inclusive for all neurotypes. She is passionate about the delivery of these interventions within the NHS\, to ensure equity in access across populations who may otherwise miss out. \n\n\n\n\n\nLibby Nellany\n\n\n\n\n\nLibby Nellany\n\n\n\nLibby is a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist and clinical supervisor within the NHS\, where she leads the pathways for musculoskeletal disorders and neurodiversity. She is also a recently qualified Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) teacher.  \n\n\n\nWhile Libby’s professional work centres on talking therapies including CBT\, ACT\, and MBCT\, Libby’s neurodivergent experience (autistic\, ADHD\, dyslexic\, and dyspraxic) has shaped a deeply personal and creative connection to embodied mindfulness beyond her NHS role. This exploration led her to establish a space rooted in movement\, sensory awareness\, and rhythm outside of her NHS role\, which enables her to share her passion for embodied mindfulness. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHannah Rudd\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nHannah Rudd\n\n\n\nHannah is autistic and works as an administrator for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. She is a volunteer advocate for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre and also volunteers as a ward befriender in acute mental health wards at the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.  \n\n\n\nOver the past couple of years\, Hannah has attended Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy\, Mindfulness for Life and Mindful Self-Compassion eight-week courses with the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. \n\n\n\nIn between these groups\, she has used piano playing and mindful self-compassion practices to work through past traumatic events. Her daily meditation practice is a loving-kindness practice. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nHow to book\n\n\n\nYou can book your ticket here. The standard rate for this masterclass is £75. See the different price tiers below. \n\n\n\nAs part of our equity\, diversity and inclusion policy\, we also have a limited number of concessionary tickets available on a first-come\, first-served basis. These are for people who are facing acute financial hardship and who would otherwise not be able to attend. To request a concession ticket please email spft.smc@nhs.net. \n\n\n\nWe are striving to make our courses accessible for all. If you have additional needs or learning styles\, please let us know so we can support you. 
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/same-but-different-neurodiversity-friendly-mindfulness-practice/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Advanced,Masterclass
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SUMMARY:Trauma-informed and effective mindfulness teaching
DESCRIPTION:This workshop draws on clinical research and lived experience to work with trauma in mindfulness-based work. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhat is covered?\n\n\n\nThis training will enable you to identify signs of trauma in your participants and provide practical ways of helping participants manage it. It will help you understand what challenges and adaptations you may need to make to your standard teaching to help support people with trauma histories.  \n\n\n\nWe approach the training from different perspectives: clinicians working in the field of trauma\, researchers discussing the evidence base for what we know is effective\, and service users sharing their experience of what worked and what didn’t work. \n\n\n\nWho is this for?\n\n\n\nThis masterclass is for those people working in the field of mindfulness. It is part of the core teacher training programmes. It is open to anybody who is trained or training to be mindfulness or mindful self-compassion teachers. \n\n\n\nPlease note\, current trainees on our teacher training courses (Foundation and Adapted Mindfulness Based Interventions) are automatically on the attendance list for this masterclass\, as it forms part of the syllabus. If this is you\, you do not need to book a place. \n\n\n\nThe facilitators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Marx\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Marx\n\n\n\nRobert Marx is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist and has been teaching mindfulness to patients and staff in the NHS for 18 years. He teaches Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindful Self-Compassion. He has been practising meditation for over 30 years. He is passionate about building compassionate cultures in organisations and about integrating relational and mindful approaches to work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClara Strauss\n\n\n\n\nRobert Marx\n\n\n\nClara is co-lead (Research) for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. She is a consultant clinical psychologist\, mindfulness teacher and clinical researcher. In her research\, Clara is particularly interested in developing and evaluating new forms of mindfulness-based intervention (MBI)\, especially for those people who may not be willing or able to access MBCT. Along with other members of her research team\, Clara has been evaluating MBIs for people experiencing depression\, for people distressed by hearing voices and for people experiencing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This research has also included research with NHS staff\, university students and the wider population. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Gilpin\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Gilpin\n\n\n\nRichard is a mindfulness teacher\, counsellor and cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist. He has trained extensively in mindfulness-based practices since the 1990s and has been facilitating MBCT courses since 2007. He is the author of two self-help books: Mindfulness for Black Dogs and Blue Days (2012) and Mindfulness for Unravelling Anxiety (2016). His Masters research on MBCT was published in 2008. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCertificates\n\n\n\n If you would like a certificate of attendance\, you can request this after the event. \n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nThe cost of the masterclass is £99. Please see the different options available in the booking form below. \n\n\n\nAs part of our equity\, diversity and inclusion policy\, we also have a limited number of concessionary tickets available on a first-come\, first-served basis. These are for people who are facing acute financial hardship and who would otherwise not be able to attend. To request a concession ticket please email spft.smc@nhs.net. \n\n\n\nWe are striving to make our courses accessible for all. If you have additional needs or learning styles\, please let us know so we can support you. 
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/trauma-informed-and-effective-mindfulness-teaching-3/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Masterclass,Teacher training
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SUMMARY:Mindful Self-Compassion: Freeing the heart for joy
DESCRIPTION:Workshop: Exploring the power of tender and fierce mindful self-compassion to let in beneficial experiences more fully\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis experiential workshop explores how joy and pleasure can strengthen resilience and wellbeing. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nWhat is covered?\n\n\n\nResearch consistently highlights the crucial role of joy and pleasure in building inner resilience and overall wellbeing. Positive experiences are vital for counteracting chronic stress and promoting feelings of safety\, connection\, and satisfaction. However\, numerous internal and external barriers often prevent us from embracing these nourishing experiences. The rising rates of burnout at work and at home underscore the urgent need to address this. Maybe this is true for you\, the people you care for or care about? Drawing upon the principles of Mindful Self-Compassion and the insights of Rick Hanson\, this experiential workshop will provide practical exercises\, meditations\, and contemplations designed to foster joy\, prioritise self-care\, and unlock inherent wisdom and wellbeing. \n\n\n\nWorkshop objectives\n\n\n\n\nTo cultivate a deeper sense of connection\, wisdom\, and understanding through an enhanced capacity for joy.\n\n\n\nTo understand and address the common blocks that prevent us from experiencing joy e.g. Fear of vulnerability and loss\, fear of addiction\, habits\, internalised culture\, perfectionism and misunderstandings about mindfulness and Buddhist psychology with regard to aversion and clinging.\n\n\n\nTo learn mindful self-compassion informal practices that support letting in positive experience and ‘hardwiring happiness’ (ie. sense and savour\, self-compassion in daily life\, gratitude\, mindful eating) and working towards greater fulfillment and providing for one’s own needs (the Compassionate Friend\, Fierce Self-Compassion gestures\, the Providing Self-compassion Break\, core values exercise).\n\n\n\n\nParticipants will leave with a greater understanding of the importance of joy in their lives\, practical tools for cultivating it\, an increased awareness of what gets in the way and approaches to encourage more openness to positive experience. \n\n\n\nThe format\n\n\n\nThe workshop will be interactive and practice-based\, incorporating discussions\, reflections\, and experiential exercises. The aim is to create a supportive and nurturing environment for participants to explore their relationship with pleasure and delight\, and leave with tools and skills they can weave into their existing meditation practice or informally into daily life.   \n\n\n\nThe workshop will last six hours: \n\n\n\n\nMorning session from 10am to 1pm\n\n\n\nLunch break \n\n\n\nAfternoon session from 2pm to 5pm\n\n\n\n\nWho is this for?\n\n\n\nThis workshop is suitable for those who have some experience of mindfulness or Mindful Self-Compassion\, as well as teachers and trainee teachers. \n\n\n\nThe facilitator\n\n\n\n\n\nZoe Shobbrook-Fisher\n\n\n\n\nZoe Shobbrook-Fisher \n\n\n\nZoe is an accredited counsellor/psychotherapist\, Certified Mindfulness and Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher\, Trainer and Supervisor. She has been delivering beginner and deeper-dive mindfulness-based programmes and popular retreats since 2009. She is a teacher trainer and mentor at the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion and a retreat lead and supervisor for the Mindfulness Network. Based in south-west London she specialises in trainings that are accessible\, inclusive and creative in the workplace\, community settings\, mental health charities and the NHS. She has always been dedicated to paths of the heart and authenticity and her own practice includes wild swimming and conscious dance. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCertificates\n\n\n\nThis masterclass is valid for ongoing personal development in mindfulness or as part of the Sussex Mindfulness Centre teacher training pathway. Certificates of attendance can be supplied on completion of the day’s training\, if requested. \n\n\n\n\n\nWhere?\n\n\n\nThe workshop will take place at the Sussex Education Centre\, Neville Avenue\, Hove\, BN3 7HZ. The buses 5a\, 16\,16a\, 3X and 93 go there. There is free parking on the grounds. \n\n\n\nHow to book\n\n\n\nThis masterclass is now fully booked. If you would like to be added to the waiting list\, please email us.  \n\n\n\nAs part of our equity\, diversity and inclusion policy\, we also have a limited number of concessionary tickets available on a first-come\, first-served basis. These are for people who are facing acute financial hardship and who would otherwise not be able to attend. To request a concession ticket please email spft.smc@nhs.net. \n\n\n\nWe are striving to make our courses accessible for all. If you have additional needs or learning styles\, please let us know so we can support you. 
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/freeing-the-heart-for-joy/
CATEGORIES:Advanced,Masterclass,Mindful Self-Compassion,Workshop
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261009T163000
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SUMMARY:Buddhist Foundations of Mindfulness
DESCRIPTION:This workshop explores the Buddhist origins and intentions of mindfulness practice. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhat is covered?\n\n\n\nEven though it is common to deliver secular mindfulness-based programmes\, many of the ideas in these programmes make more sense when we understand their origins and intentions. \n\n\n\nJohn Peacock is one of the few people who can expertly make this bridge and we are delighted to welcome him back again. \n\n\n\nWho is this for?\n\n\n\nThis masterclass is suitable for anyone involved in teaching\, or training to teach\, mindfulness; or anyone with a particular interest in the Buddhist underpinnings of mindfulness practice.  \n\n\n\nYou can join this online workshop from anywhere\, as long as you have a stable internet connection.   \n\n\n\nPlease note\, current trainees on our teacher training courses (Foundation and Adapted Mindfulness Based Interventions) are automatically on the attendance list for this masterclass\, as it forms part of the syllabus. If this is you\, you do not need to book a place. \n\n\n\nThe facilitator\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Peacock\n\n\n\n\nJohn Peacock is an academic and a Buddhist practitioner of nearly fifty years. Trained initially in the Tibetan Gelukpa tradition in India\, he then spent time in Sri Lanka studying Theravāda. Following a doctorate in philosophy\, he taught Buddhist and Western philosophy as well as Buddhist studies at the University of Bristol. He went on to be an Associate Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre and co-direct the Master of Studies programme in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy at the University of Oxford. John is now retired from academia and continues to teach meditation and courses on Buddhism and Western philosophy internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCertificates\n\n\n\nThis is valid for ongoing personal development in mindfulness or as part of the Sussex Mindfulness Centre teacher training pathway. Certificates of attendance can be supplied on completion of the day’s training\, if requested. \n\n\n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nThe cost of this masterclass is £75. We also offer a choice of two other options: \n\n\n\n£100 – Supporting rate. You can support other participants to attend who are on a low income. \n\n\n\n£50 – Supported rate\, if you are on a low income and can’t afford the general admission price. \n\n\n\nAs part of our equity\, diversity and inclusion policy\, we also have a limited number of concessionary tickets available on a first-come\, first-served basis. These are for people who are facing acute financial hardship and who would otherwise not be able to attend. To request a concession ticket please email spft.smc@nhs.net. \n\n\n\nWe are striving to make our courses accessible for all. If you have additional needs or learning styles\, please let us know so we can support you.  
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/buddhist-foundations-of-mindfulness-4/
CATEGORIES:Masterclass,Teacher training
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SUMMARY:Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy: The evolving story
DESCRIPTION:This masterclass will explore the story behind Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy\, its research and practice\, as well as dilemmas that practitioners may face today. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhat is covered?\n\n\n\nThe day will chart the unfolding of the story of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) research and practice\, interweaving presentations with practice and dialogue. \n\n\n\nParticipants will be supported to situate themselves within the evolving story and invited to inquire into the role we are all playing – how is our MBCT practice situated? What are the questions and dilemmas we are experiencing? \n\n\n\nWho is this for?\n\n\n\nThis workshop is suitable for anyone involved in teaching\, or training to teach\, mindfulness. \n\n\n\nYou can join this online workshop from anywhere\, as long as you have a stable internet connection.   \n\n\n\nPlease note\, current trainees on our teacher training courses (Foundation and Adapted Mindfulness Based Interventions) are automatically on the attendance list for this masterclass\, as it forms part of the syllabus. If this is you\, you do not need to book a place. \n\n\n\nThe facilitators\n\n\n\nProfessor Clara Strauss\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Clara Strauss\n\n\n\nClara Strauss is a consultant clinical psychologist\, mindfulness teacher and clinical researcher. In her research\, Clara is particularly interested in developing and evaluating new forms of mindfulness-based intervention (MBI)\, especially for those people who may not be willing or able to access MBCT. Along with other members of her research team\, Clara has been evaluating MBIs for people experiencing depression\, for people distressed by hearing voices and for people experiencing obsessive-compulsive disorder. This research has also included research with NHS staff\, university students and the wider population. \n\n\n\n\n\nTaravajra\n\n\n\n\n\nTaravajra\n\n\n\nTaravajra has been teaching mindfulness in Sussex since 2005 to community groups\, carers\, teachers and NHS staff. Taravajra gained a Masters degree in mindfulness-based approaches in 2010 at Bangor University. Since 2011\, he has been part of the core training team at Bangor\, teaching on the Masters programme and teacher training pathway in the English and Spanish speaking worlds. \n\n\n\nSince 2011 he has been one of the main trainers on the Sussex Mindfulness Centre’s teacher training programme. \n\n\n\n\n\nCertificates\n\n\n\nThis masterclass is valid for ongoing personal development in mindfulness or as part of the Sussex Mindfulness Centre teacher training pathway. Certificates of attendance can be supplied on completion of the day’s training\, if requested. \n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nYou will be able to book this event from 5 May 2026. If you would like to receive a reminder when bookings open\, please email us to spft.smc@nhs.net. \n\n\n\nThe cost of the eight-week course is £75. We also offer a choice of two other options: \n\n\n\n£100 – Supporting rate. You can support other participants to attend who are on a low income. \n\n\n\n£50 – Supported rate\, if you are on a low income and can’t afford the basic rate. \n\n\n\nAs part of our equity\, diversity and inclusion policy\, we also have a limited number of concessionary tickets available on a first-come\, first-served basis. These are for people who are facing acute financial hardship and who would otherwise not be able to attend. To request a concession ticket please email spft.smc@nhs.net. \n\n\n\nWe are striving to make our courses accessible for all. If you have additional needs or learning styles\, please let us know so we can support you.  
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/mindfulness-based-cognitive-therapy-the-evolving-story-3/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Advanced,Masterclass
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