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Compassionate Leadership Training programme shows great promise in delivering meaningful changes
We looked at the effectiveness of Compassionate Leadership Training (CLT) on improving the wellbeing and compassion of NHS leaders
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MBCT for difficult-to-treat depression workshop
This workshop introduces findings from the RESPOND trial. It evaluates MBCT as a treatment for people who had not remitted following high-intensity NHS Talking Therapies.
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Compassionate Leadership Training for health and social care leaders on Tuesday afternoons
Compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation, and reduced staff stress, injuries and absenteeism, and even reduced patient mortality. Six online sessions on Tuesdays from 7 October until 18 November (no session on 28 October). Following this, there will be follow-up sessions to review our learning and practice on Overview At the heart of compassion is the notion that everyone experiences difficulty, and that we can all play a role in alleviating our own difficulties and those of others. Whether this is compassion for ourselves, the people we lead, colleagues or service users. We won’t always feel like helping…
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Trauma-informed and effective mindfulness teaching
This workshop draws on clinical research and lived experience to work with trauma in mindfulness-based work. What is covered? This 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. We 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…
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Review your year with compassion: message from Robert and Clara
In their end of year message, Robert Marx and Clara Strauss (co-leads of the Sussex Mindfulness Centre) invite you to review your year with compassion. As we come towards the end of the year, it can be helpful to take some time to reflect on the year that has passed. It can be tempting to judge the things we have done or said, or not done or said. We may find we evaluate them against expectations we have, or others might have of us. Did we achieve this or that? Did we reach this or that goal? It can be…
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: The Evolving Story
This masterclass will explore the story behind Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, its research and practice, as well as dilemmas that practitioners may face today. What is covered? The day will chart the unfolding of the story of Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) research and practice, interweaving presentations with practice and dialogue. Participants 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? Who is this for? This workshop is suitable for anyone involved…