EVENTS IN ENGLISH

Mindfulness in psychotherapy - 4 day professional training

  with Steven Alper

  10-13 February 2011 (Ghent, Belgium)

Vipassana & dharma for MBSR & MBCT teachers

  with Christina Feldman & professor John teasdale

  18-22 April 2011 (Brussels, Belgium)

Advanced MBCT training

  with professor Mark Williams

  27-28 june 2011

  (Belgium)

  2 days

Vipassana & dharma for MBSR & MBCT teachers

  with Christina Feldman & John Peacock

  12-16 March 2012

  5 days (Brussels, Belgium)

The Power of Mindfulness: Mindfulness Inside and Outside the Therapy Hour

  with Ronald D. Siegel

  26-27 April 2012

  2 days (Ghent, Belgium)

Wisdom & Compassion in Psychotherapy: Deepening Mindfulness in Clinical Practice

  with Ronald D. Siegel

  2-3 May 2012

  2 days (Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Advanced MBCT training

  with professor Mark Williams

  31 May -1 June 2012

  2 days (Belgium)

TELECOACHING

 8 telephone sessions MBSR/MBCT

 contact a@aandacht.be

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING)

 16 days In company or at IAM.

contact a@aandacht.be

GENERAL TRAINING INFORMATION

Professional training: MBCT & meditation

BECOMING AN MBSR OR MBCT TRAINER …

The professional use of MBCT or MBSR is not being taught in 8 weeks, but requires a stable practice of mindfulness meditation of at least 1 to 2 years.
The best way to learn how to facilitate MBCT or MBSR is to follow a heterogeneous group (therapists and patients together) as a participant. In that way, you can experience directly what it is like to work with a patient population.

Candidate trainers first learn how to apply the process specifically on themselves. They learn how to deal with their own thoughts, emotions, opinions and physical sensations according to the principles of mindfulness training and becoming aware. This personal experience is an essential part of being able to assist participants in their own unique process from a mindfulness perspective.
There is an intense meditation training, about 10 days and then a MBCT training from the perspective of a trainer. This comprises a discussion of the structure, contents and specific processes that arise in participants during the training.This is completed by a discussion session of the previous and the new lesson lesson and inquiry for homework.
This is followed by 7 seperate full days for professionals only, homeassignements between each day. This is completed by a personal supervision .

Detailled information in Dutch.

Further deepening of the personal “mindfulness” experience is possible on full days: the mindfulness day of practice, the days focussing on “dealing with emotional pain, fear and anger” and the day on “self acceptance and appreciation”. Furthermore, it is recommended to do “vipassana” retreats (mindfulness) of 7 to 10 days. The 3 th year 'Mindfulness & psychotherapy' is also recommended.

PROFESSIONAL WORKSHOPS, SYMPOSIA & TRAINING

Can also be organized upon request.
Please contact Dr. David Dewulf (more info) - email dd@mbct.be

1. " Mindfulness for health care professionals ": an introduction day

Working with pain and tension
Working with mental and emotional reactivity
Understanding stress: deeper awareness of the inner process
Awareness of being disconnected and getting back in touch with life
The power of being present, the power of now
Being embodied and appreciation of life
Yoga and bodyscan as a way of self exploration
Insight meditation: working with the breath, the body and the physical sensations
Training the mind with sounds

2. Mindfulness meditation days: "emotional pain and fear": an inner exploration of attachment & the 3 subtle habits , root of all psycho-pathology : full days

Day 1: grasping, greed, avarice ,egoism
Day 2: aversion, irritation, anger , hatred and aggression
Day 3: delusion
Each day explores the underlying fear and pain.

3. Mind/ Body Medicine: a 1 day training for medical doctors and psychologists

Featuring:
12 practical steps for dealing with stress
insomnia
chronic
pain
chronic fatigue
More information on Mind/Body Medicine: www.mindbody.be

4. Concepts and reality: mindfulness in spiritual traditions: where the Buddha, Lao-tse, Jesus and the Toltec meet.

lecture

For experienced people...

Featuring:
MBSR & MBCT: why am I teaching what I am teaching.
Teaching from "core inquiries" rather then from theory, .
facilitating growth and learning from within.
The 5 levels of the inquiry process. .
The use of imagery in MBSR & MBCT. .
The use of language in mindfulness meditation Dealing with mental patterns.
The feeling tone.
7 ways to deal with fatigue in meditation, .
7 ways to deal with mental agitation , more….

6. An introduction to Buddhist psychology: lectures & explorations

Featuring:
Impermanence, dhukha, no self, identity, fixations,
the 5 aggregates, the 5 hindrances and other obstacles
in meditation, the 4 foundations of mindfulness.