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“We can’t do it by ourselves, and no one else can do it for us.”

Susann Herrmann - HC
Guiding Teacher Susann Herrmann
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OnlineLIVE
Guiding Teacher Susann Herrmann
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OnlineLIVE

Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

Mindfulness based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)

Next Course starting: Saturday 04 November 2023, 10am – 2pm GMT
— Double Sessions —
Mindfulness based cognitive therapy program

The mind goes on and on!
So much chatter, so much comparison, so much complaint…

Does this sound familiar to you?

In the moment of meeting our discontent,
there is the possibility of being transformed by it!

What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness practice helps us to see more clearly the patterns of the mind and teaches us to stay in the present moment, rather than reliving the past or pre-living the future. You learn in the first place just to be conscious and accept whatever is there. Acceptance means seeing things as they actually are in the present. We cultivate acceptance by taking each moment as it comes and being with it fully, as it is! And by this acceptance you will see that changing happen by itself.

What is MBCT?

It combines a form of Eastern meditation with elements of Cognitive Therapy in an eight session programme.

It was developed by Prof. Mark Williams (Oxford), John Teasdale (Oxford/Cambridge) and Zindel Segal (Toronto) for people who have been repeatedly depressed to help them stay well.

It is closely based on Jon Kabat Zinn’s Mindfulness based Stress Reduction programme (MBSR) at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre, which has been found to produce significant change in participants’ ability to deal with chronic pain, anxiety and stress.

Content of the MBCT eight session programme

Please find here the topics covered in the programme:

  • Awareness and automatic pilot
  • Living in our heads
  • Gathering the scattered mind
  • Recognizing aversion
  • Allowing / letting be
  • Thoughts are not facts
  • ‘How can I best take care of myself?’
  • Maintaining  and extending new learning

How will we meet?

 

We meet together using Zoom, all details and a link to join the call will be sent by email when you sign up.

If you would like a short chat to discuss anything around the MBCT programme please drop us an email.

Led by our Guiding Teacher

Susann Herrmann, Clinical/Occup. Psychologist MA >>

For more information,
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MBCT OnlineLIVE Group Course

starting November 2023

  • Saturdays: double sessions
    Nov 04, Nov 18, Dec 02, Dec 16
  • Time zone details:
    10am – 2pm GMT, London – UK.
    If you are in a different time zone, please use our
     time zone converter to determine your local time.

  • including FREE Sitting Meditation Group Meetings in December 2023:
    Taking place 4 times a week.
    Come as little or as often as you like, there is no obligation to attend
    . Details >>
  • Location:
    Our Zoom Meditation Space
  • MBCT OnlineLIVE Group CourseCost: including handouts & guided meditation
    • £ 250 Individual
    • £ 225 Discount Rate – Individual – Friends Membership
    • £ 295 Organisation
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MBCT OnlineLIVE One-to-One programme

  • 10 meetings of 90 mins each
     
  • Cost including handouts & guided meditations:
  • Location:
    Online via Zoom or in-person on the Isle of Wight

To work with Susann in a one-to-one capacity online or in-person on the Isle of Wight, please send an email.

How does MBCT work?


By practising in sessions, and by listening to guided meditations at home during the week, you learn the practice of mindfulness meditation.

Practices such as the Body Scan, Breathing meditation, and simple Yoga exercises that allow you to come in touch with moment-to-moment changes in the mind and the body and foster a new, ’de-centred’ perspective to your thoughts and feelings.

The sessions include basic education about mental health issues, plus exercises from cognitive therapy that show the links between thinking and feeling and how you can look after yourself.

MBCT is challenging and life-affirming. Participating requires an ongoing commitment to yourself (home assignments).

What do you learn?

  • to become familiar with the workings of your mind
  • to notice the times when you are at risk of getting caught in old habits of mind that re-activate downward mood spirals
  • to explore ways of releasing yourself from those old habits and, if you choose, enter a different way of being
  • to put you in touch with a different way of knowing yourself and the world
  • to notice small beauties and pleasures in the world around you instead of living in your head
  • to be kind to yourself instead of wishing things were different all the time, or driving yourself to meet impossible goals
  • to find a way so you don’t have to battle with yourself all the time
  • to accept yourself as you are, rather than judging yourself all the time

Registration:

Next MBCT OnlineLIVE  Group Course: 
starting Saturday 04 November 2023, 10am – 2pm GMT

We very much look forward
to welcoming you!
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Registration:

Next MBCT OnlineLIVE  Group Course: 
starting Saturday 04 November 2023, 10am – 2pm GMT

Select

By making the booking here, you accept the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.

You do NOT need a PayPal account to pay online! On PayPal screen use the credit card or bank account possibility.

Voices of participants MBCT

For Testimonials please HERE >>

Voices of participants MBCT

For Testimonials please HERE >>

We very much look forward
to welcoming you!
Voices of participants MBCT

For Testimonials please HERE >>

Voices of participants MBCT

For Testimonials please HERE >>