Mindfulness Based Practice
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"Consciousnesss is the medium which carries the messages which compose experience. Psychotherapies are concerned with these messages and their meanings; meditation instead directs itself to the nature of the medium, consciousness. These two approaches are by no means mutually exclusive; rather, they are complementary. A therapy of the future may integrate techniques from both approaches, possibly producing a change in the whole person more thoroughgoing and more potent than either in isolation"
(Goleman,1988)
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To all intents and purposes, mindfulness practice underlies all aspects of my professional practice. A principle mode of personal development for over twenty years, my daily meditation practice must surely inform and enhance my awareness in daily life! Well I hope and believe so – as I hope and believe likewise for those clients with whom I sense it is appropriate to share mindfulness practice techniques.
I am enthusiastic about the Mindfulness Based group work programmes established by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn and further developed by Professors Mark Williams, Zindel Segal and Dr John Teasdale.
MBSR and MBCT programmes have accumulated an impressive evidence-base. The recent Mindfulness Conference at Bangor University – at which I was privileged to both present my own research and to facilitate a clinical practice workshop on my mindfulness-based work in prisons – left me with the impression that Mindfulness Based work will soon be entering main-stream as an effective and economical treatment of choice for a broad variety of presenting issues. The wide range of well-positioned practitioners at this vital, heartful, well-attended conference attested to the impression that the ancient practice of meditation is 'coming of age' as a contemporary mind-medicine. Equally one might say that mental health therapy has grown-up when it can integrate introspection with empiricism.
The adjoining quote from Daniel Goleman sums the situation up well for me.
CPD/Supervision Mindfulness Practice Day–Retreats for professionals. Please follow the link for more detail.
ACT training: 4 and 3 day 'Introduction to Acceptance & Commitment therapy, (ACT)'
London Dates: May17-18 & June21-22, 2008
Bristol Dates: July 11-13, 2008
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