Mindfulness in Higher Education with Ariana Faris, Kate Malleson and Chris Cullen Tuesday 3 September – £125 There is a growing focus and interest in universities and Higher Education to attend to student wellbeing and flourishing, with initiatives such as ‘Healthy Universities’ recommending that HE institutions ‘embed health and wellbeing into the core of their business and culture’. Furthermore a number of
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A Seven-Day Teacher Training Course Melanie Fennell & Antonia Sumbundu Hadeland, Norway, 9th – 15th June 2013 -Fully booked- The intention of this residential MBCT teacher training retreat, held in the peaceful setting of the Sanner Hotel, Hadeland, is to offer participants an opportunity to deepen their understanding of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), through direct experience of
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14th September – 21st September 2013 Thorsten Barnhofer, Marie Johansson, Jill Roberts, & Christina Surawy Venue: Ammerdown Centre, Radstock, Somerset The intention of this 7-day residential training retreat, held in the peaceful setting of the Ammerdown Centre in Somerset, is to provide clinicians with direct experience of the 8-session programme of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and to offer opportunities to
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Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: A Seven-Day Teacher Training Course Melanie Fennell & Antonia Sumbundu Hadeland, Norway, 9th – 15th June 2013 -Fully booked- Further details…
Two new papers in press now! Operant conditioning of autobiographical memory retrieval & Reduction in Memory Specificity Following an Approach/Avoidance Scrambled Sentences Task Relates to Cognitive Avoidant Coping. See these papers and more on our publications page.
Lord Richard Layard, Jon Kabat-Zinn, with Chris Cullen and Mark Williams from OMC visit No 10 to meet with a Senior Policy Adviser about mindfulness. The team met to explore the possible application of mindfulness in the fields of mental and physical health, education and other public services, both for recipients of these services (such as children and young people, older
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In the news… Some scientists suggest that a brain training technique called mindfulness could help teenagers manage stress. The BBC’s Education Correspondent Luke Walton has been to a school in Kent to find out how it works. See the video…
Applications are now being taken for our Foundations Course in Teaching MBCT/MBCP. See here for more information and details about how to apply.
Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World – a talk by Mark Williams Mindfulness is an ancient spiritual practice that has become popular as a secular method to de-clutter the mind and de-stress the body. Who can benefit from this practice? Is it for the few or the many? How can we encourage its use without over-complicating or over-simplifying it?
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Sharon Salzberg – 24 April 2013 – £125 Venue: Assembly Room, Oxford Town Hall, St Aldate’s, Oxford OX1 1BX Time: Registration from 9.30am, start 10:00am, close 16.30pm His Holiness the Dalai Lama has stated, “My true religion is kindness.” Although kindness can be mistakenly seen as simplistic and weak, it has an inherent power to transform our worldview from one
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Mindfulness: Diverse Perspectives on its Meaning, Origins and Applications Edited by J. Mark G. Williams and Jon Kabat-Zinn Mindfulness-based approaches to medicine, psychology, neuroscience, healthcare, education, business leadership, and other major societal institutions have become increasingly common. New paradigms are emerging from a confluence of two powerful and potentially synergistic epistemologies: one arising from the wisdom traditions of Asia and the other arising
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