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What is Mindfulness?
This eight-week Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) course helps participants to develop greater awareness of their thoughts, emotions and experiences, which in turn helps build new ways of relating to distress, cultivating resilience and reducing low mood, depression and anxiety. MBCT is recognised as an effective treatment for mild to moderate depression and there is increasing evidence that shows it could be effective for other mental health challenges and to improve wellbeing and resilience.
This course is taught by Anita Marsden who is a qualified and experienced MBCT teacher and has completed teacher training with the Sussex Mindfulness Centre.
What’s Included in the Course?
- 2 hour online orientation session
- 16 hours of face to face mindfulness teaching
- Half-day face to face retreat
- Printed handbook with session by session information and worksheets
- Access to audio recordings of meditation practices
About the Course
The course is made up of eight weekly sessions, with an online orientation session at the start to allow us to meet and hear about the course. There is also an optional half day retreat where we will have the opportunity to do some extended practice in silence together.
Each weekly session is two hours long and will typically start with a mindfulness practice. This involves bringing our attention to our present-moment experience as best we can. For example, we might pay attention to bodily sensations. Each mindfulness practice is followed by a discussion of people’s experiences during the practice. Sessions include other exercises to help increase understanding about the way the mind works.
My intention is to create a safe and supportive atmosphere in the sessions. The practices and exercises are invitational and no one is asked to do anything they don’t want to. There is normally some smaller group work, or discussion in pairs. The size of the class can vary and is likely to be between 6 and 12 people.
The course asks for a commitment of 20 to 40 minutes of home practice each day for six out of seven days. It is important to consider how you will make time for the home practice, as benefits are directly linked to the amount of time invested. However, it is completely up to the participant to work out what is possible and adapt as needed.
Before starting the course you will be sent a confidential assessment form to complete and return which may be followed up with a phone call. This is to ensure safeguarding and that mindfulness training is right for you at this time in your life.
