Week 1: 14 July  

Introduction of each participant

• Existing experience in MiCBT
• Workplace activities and context
• Motivation to attend
• Main expectations from the course

Planning implementation of the program, setting goals and discussing professional and ethical matters:

• Clarifying responsibility for therapy outcome
• Who will implement the program to individual clients or in group
• What client population will be chosen
• Evaluating therapist’s existing competencies for the planned program (i.e., is the therapist currently sufficiently equipped to implement this program to complex/severe cases?)
• Evaluation of initial pacing (i.e., should one start standard delivery or use a variation to adapt to client’s severe symptoms?) 

Setting and explaining this week’s homework for chosen clients:

• Implement PMR or Mindfulness of Breath according to symptom severity

Week 2: 21 July

Homework given last week: Practice feedback from each participant

Task clarification and elaboration:

• Mindfulness of breath & Neural networks activation

Setting and explaining next week’s homework:

• Normalising intrusive thoughts during practice 
• Validating effort and commitment to daily practice
• Unilateral part-by-part body-scanning using auditory instructions on CD
• Study Part 2 of the MiCBT textbook (Internalising skills)

Week 3: 28 July

Homework given last week: Practice feedback from each participant

Task clarification and elaboration:

• Mindfulness practice (Unilateral body-scanning) and the role of equanimity in the extinguishment of learned responses

Setting and explaining next week’s homework:

• Implementing schedule and providing rationale (Neuroplasticity in correct cortical sites, preventing “structural interference”, etc) for unilateral part-by-part body-scanning without auditory instructions
• Implementing informal practice (practising mindfulness in daily life) and providing a rationale for it (e.g., importance of skill transfer/generalisation of new behaviour).
• Further study of Part 2 of the MiCBT textbook (Internalising skills)

Week 4: 4 August

Homework given last week: Practice feedback from each participant

Task clarification and elaboration:

• Mindfulness practice (Unilateral body-scanning without instructions)
• Stage 2: Using SUDS form with “bi-polar” and in-vivo exposure techniques

Setting and explaining next week’s homework:

• Implementing bilateral (symmetrical) body-scanning using auditory instructions and providing clients with a sound rationale for advanced scanning techniques (rapid detection of early distress cues, prevention of relapse, etc)
• Guiding client to fill in SUDS form
• Implementing bi-polar and in-vivo exposure methods
• Study Chapter 7 of the MiCBT textbook (Exposure skills)

Week 5: 11 August

Homework given last week: Practice feedback from each participant

• Advanced body-scanning: Partial sweeping
• Stage 3 (Part 1): Identifying targets and experiential ownership methods

Setting and explaining next week’s homework:

• Providing brief rationale for Stage 3 (Interpersonal stage) to clients
• implementing Experiential ownership and providing a rationale for it based on co-emergence reinforcement
• Implementing partial sweeping technique
• Study Chapter 8 of the MiCBT textbook (Interpersonal skills)

Week 6: 18 August

Homework given last week: Practice feedback from each participant

• Advanced body scanning: Sweeping en masse
• Stage 3 (Part 2): Integrating mindfulness with assertiveness training

Setting and explaining next week’s homework:

• Combining experiential ownership with the 7-step assertive communication method
• Implementing Sweeping en masse
• Provide a rationale for preventing craving responses to pleasant “free-flow” of body sensations
• Study Chapter 9 of the MiCBT textbook (Grounded Empathy skills)

Week 7: 25 August

Homework given last week: Practice feedback from each participant

• Advanced body-scanning: Transversal Scanning
• Stage 4: Compassion Training

Setting and explaining next week’s homework:

• Providing a sound and scientifically-based rationale for the use of empathy training (empathy as a counterconditioning context and reward)
• Provide a sound and scientifically-based rationale for trialling adherence to 5 ethical precepts (as “behavioural experiments”)
• Implementing Loving-Kindness meditation
• Implementing Transversal scanning
• Study Chapter 9 of the MiCBT textbook (Empathic skills)

 Week 8: 1 September

Homework given last week: Practice feedback from each participant

• Course revision and summary
• Evaluating learning outcomes
• Further training and planning professional support