Professional Workshops
Mindfulness-integrated
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
March
Mindfulness-based CBT for
Crises Intervention and Relapse Prevention 
- Date: Monday March 19 2007
- Venue: Jasper Hotel, Melbourne
- Level: Beginner to intermediate, no experience of mindfulness required
- Facilitator: Bruno Cayoun
- Workshop Objectives: The aim of the workshop is to demonstrate effective skills to facilitate the treatment of acute and chronic conditions with a particular focus on the experience of specific principles of mindfulness meditation and their sophisticated integration with CBT skills.
Mindfulness is a mental state that requires deliberate attention to what is experienced in the present moment with a non-judgmental and non-reactive attitude. The mindful observer perceives an emerging experience as a transitory and impersonal event, and is grounded in the present moment to take appropriate action, rather than merely reacting to stimuli. Mindfulness-based CBT (MCBT (MiCBT)) integrates the core components of CBT techniques with mindfulness training, as understood and applied in the most ancient Theravada teaching.
The four-stage model of MCBT (MiCBT) makes use of recent developments in information-processing and behavioural research, enabling the client to manage crises by locating and targeting the locus of reinforcement of a reactive behaviour—rather than simply attempting a desensitisation to stressors. Because MCBT (MiCBT) addresses both the internal and external contexts in which maladaptive behaviour is maintained, it is also used as a relapse prevention method in a wide range of disorders. The particularity of this model is its applicability to a wide range of disorders, acute or chronic, and its utility as a crisis intervention. The model will also be explained from its neurophenomenological basis and illustrated with latest research in neuroplasticity (e.g., Lazar et al., 2005)
Teaching modalities will include introspection (mindfulness meditation), Power Point slide presentation, discussion, role-play, and master class demonstration or video screening of real cases. - Contact: workshops@aacbtvic.org.au
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This workshop is organised by The Australian Association for Cognitive and Behaviour Therapy (AACBT) Victorian Branch.
Click here to read AACBT Vic. review on this workshop
June
Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
A 1-day Introductory Workshop for
Tafe Counsellors and Disability Liaison Officers
- Date: June 25, 2007
- Venue: Huon Bush Retreats, Huon Valley - Tasmania
- Level: Beginner to intermediate, no experience of mindfulness assumed
- Length: 1 day 10.00am - 5.00pm.
- Facilitator: Bruno Cayoun
- Contact: Alex Tanner
This workshop is organised by Counselling and Careers Service - Institute of TAFE Tasmania
July
Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
An 8-week Course for Professionals
- Date: July 7 to September 1 2007 (see brochure for dates and times)
- Venue: Newdegate Street Health Centre, West Hobart - Tasmania
- Level: Beginner to intermediate, no experience of mindfulness assumed
- Length: 8 half-day sessions.
- Facilitator: Bruno Cayoun
- Workshop Objectives: The main aim of this comprehensive 8-week course is to provide clinicians with a sound understanding of MiCBT principles and the necessary skills to implement them confidently in their clinical work. During each session, participants will also receive professional supervision to assist with their application of MiCBT skills with their specific client population, addressing issues of particular interest.
Course content will involve practical and experiential work and include:- core and advanced skills in mindfulness practice
- theoretical fundamentals of mindfulness approaches
- incorporating the complex foundations (locus and dynamics) of behaviour maintenance and extinction to improve ecological validity and therapeutic efficacy
- engaging the client in the MiCBT treatment plan
- skills to implement the four stages of MiCBT with patients diagnosed with most DSM-IV Axis and Axis II disorders
- Mindfulness-based relapse prevention strategies
- real case demonstrations on video and in a master class format will be included.
- Contact: MiCBT Workshop Coordinator
- Click here for brochure/enrolment form
This workshop is organised by The Psychology Centre.
July
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
A 5-Day Professional Training for the
Prevention of Depression Relapse
- Date: July 29 - August 3
- Venue: Rhinebeck Campus, Rhinebeck, NY (US)
- Facilitators: Zindel Segal and Susan Woods
- Workshop Objectives: Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is an innovative program designed to prevent relapse in people who have recovered from unipolar depression. Based on the research of Drs. Zindel Segal, John Teasdale, and Mark Williams and documented in their book Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression, the program combines the practice and clinical application of mindfulness meditation with the tools of cognitive therapy.
- Contact: registration@eomega.org
- Brochure | Website
September
Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
An 8-week Course for Professionals
- Date: September 8 to November 10 2007 (see brochure for dates and times)
- Venue: Anne O'Bourne Centre, Howick St, Launceston - Tasmania
- Level: Beginner to intermediate, no experience of mindfulness assumed
- Length: 8 half-day sessions.
- Facilitator: Bruno Cayoun
- Workshop Objectives: The main aim of this comprehensive 8-week course is to provide clinicians with a sound understanding of MiCBT principles and the necessary skills to implement them confidently in their clinical work. During each session, participants will also receive professional supervision to assist with their application of MiCBT skills with their specific client population, addressing issues of particular interest.
Course content will involve practical and experiential work and include:- core and advanced skills in mindfulness practice
- theoretical fundamentals of mindfulness approaches
- incorporating the complex foundations (locus and dynamics) of behaviour maintenance and extinction to improve ecological validity and therapeutic efficacy
- engaging the client in the MiCBT treatment plan
- skills to implement the four stages of MiCBT with patients diagnosed with most DSM-IV Axis and Axis II disorders
- Mindfulness-based relapse prevention strategies
- real case demonstrations on video and in a master class format will be included.
- Contact: MiCBT Workshop Coordinator
- Click here for brochure/enrolment form
This workshop is organised by The Psychology Centre.
September
Expertise in the Integration of Mindfulness
and Traditional CBT
Part of the Workshop Series of the
APS National Conference 2007
- Date: 29 September 2007
- Venue: Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre
- Level: For delegates who have already attended an introductory or advanced workshop in MiCBT, MBSR or MBCT. It is assumed that all participants have an existing knowledge and practice of mindfulness.
- Length: Full day Workshop (8.30am-4.30pm)
- Facilitator: Bruno Cayoun
- Workshop Objectives: Mindfulness-Integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT)integrates mindfulness core principles and traditional CBT to address crisis and help prevent relapse in a wide range of disorders.
The aim of this advanced workshop is to provide participants with a practical understanding of this integration. The emphasis will be on the demonstration of specific skills which enable immediate benefits and facilitate commitment to treatment in difficult clients. These include designing and providing clients with effective behavioural experiments which make use of mindfulness skills to reappraise unhelpful beliefs and minimise reactivity.
Through a combination of learning activities, including mindfulness practice, master class and role-play, workshop delegates will be exposed to advanced skills and learn how to apply them in their work.
The workshop will also help overcome the common difficulties encountered by therapists with their clients’ practice of mindfulness and perhaps their own.
- Conference Web Site
This workshop is organised by the APS
November
Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
A 1-day workshop for Assure Programs
- Date: November 10 2007
- Venue: Level 7, 345 Ann St, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Level: Beginner to intermediate, no experience of mindfulness assumed
- Length: Full day: 8.30am - 4.30pm
- Facilitator: Bruno Cayoun
This workshop organised by Assure Programs
December
Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
A 1-day workshop for GPs
- Date: December 8 2007
- Venue: Tasmanian Faculty Office - New Town, TAS
- Level: Beginner to intermediate, no experience of mindfulness assumed
- Length: Full day: 8.30am - 5pm
- Facilitator: Bruno Cayoun
- Workshop Objectives: The Tasmanian Faculty is delighted to deliver a mental health workshop specifically designed to fulfil the ongoing requirements of GPs registered with Medicare Australia under the 'Better Outcomes in Mental Health' (BOiMH) framework.
- Contact: For more information please contact Faculty office by phoning 6278 1644, Matthew Rush or Julia Ray
- Click here for brochure/registration form
This workshop is organised by The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, Tasmanian Faculty