Mindfulness Meditation Retreat for Therapists
Deepen your personal practice and understanding of mindfulness meditation and its clinical implementation within MiCBT.
Next retreat: 20 – 25 October 2023
Kenthurst NSW AU
Register your interest for next retreat Oct 2023
Overview
This 5-day mindfulness meditation retreat is a near-silent retreat with a predominantly meditative content, specifically designed to teach the practice of the Vipassana method in the popular Burmese tradition of Ven. Ledi Sayadaw, Saya Thet, U Ba Khin and S. N. Goenka. The retreat has the particularity of developing equanimity, one of the central mechanisms in MiCBT. It provides a more advanced understanding of mindfulness meditation and its fundamental purpose in the wider Buddhist teaching of the Eightfold Noble Path and its relevance to MiCBT. You will benefit from practising an ancient, authentic and unaltered mindfulness meditation tradition.
The retreat is offered to mental health therapists who have attended the MiCBT Foundation or Applied Course. The retreat is an opportunity to deepen your practice of mindfulness meditation and acquire priceless personal and professional benefits. It also provides a deepening of mindfulness meditation’s central effects and how these differ from occasional adverse effects reported in the literature.
This retreat is indispensable to anyone serious about acquiring a thorough experiential understanding of equanimity. While spending five days with like-minded colleagues, the retreat is an ideal way to improve your self-care and regain a sense of peace and equanimity at home and work. This retreat is also an ideal training event to maintain yearly MiCBT professional development.
The fee is kept purposefully low to facilitate frequent attendance for MiCBT clinicians and teachers.
Learning Objectives
- You will learn
- to achieve greater levels of experiential awareness, equanimity and well-being
- the structure, content and purpose of the Eightfold Noble Path, of which mindfulness is a part, and its relation to MiCBT
- to implement mindfulness meditation with greater knowledge and confidence while using MiCBT
Schedule
This retreat integrates the ethical principles of traditional Buddhist retreats. For example, to enhance your personal gain in this course, the silence of speech, body and mind (i.e., “Noble Silence”) must be kept at all times between 9:00 pm and 8:30 am, as well as during all rest, meal and break periods (except for dinner on the first day and lunch on the last day). You are welcome to speak to the teacher about private matters during breaks. During communication periods, participants abstain from using offensive or misleading speech and (Buddhist) “right speech” is cultivated.
Accordion Title
Friday
3:30pm-4:00pm Registration
4:00pm-5:00pm Introduction to the retreat
5:00pm-6:00pm Meditation (with break)
6:00pm-6:30pm Group Discussion
6:30pm-7:30pm Dinner and Rest
7:30pm-9:00pm Meditation (with breaks)
Saturday/Sunday/Monday/Tuesday
6.00am Wake Up
6:30am-7:30am Meditation
7:30am-8:30am Breakfast
8.30am – 10:00am Meditation and Discussion
10:00am-10:30am Morning Break
10:30am-12:00pm Meditation (with breaks)
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch and Rest (or exercise on your own)
1:00pm-3:00pm Meditation (with breaks)
3:00pm-3:30pm Afternoon Break
3:30pm-4:30pm Group Discussion
4:30pm-6:30pm Meditation (including walking meditation)
6:30pm-7:30pm Dinner and Rest (or exercise on your own)
7:30pm-8:30pm Teacher’s Evening Talk
8:30pm-9:00pm Meditation
Wednesday
6.00am Wake Up
6:30am-7:30am Meditation
7:30am-8:30am Breakfast
8.30am – 10:00am Meditation (including Loving Kindness)
10:00am-10:30am Morning Break (non-silent)
10:30am-11:30am Meditation (with Loving Kindness)
11:30am-12:00pm Conclusion and Future Directions
12:00pm-1:00pm Lunch (non-silent)
1:00pm – 2:00pm Packing Up and End of Retreat