Health Professionals: Individuals and Organisations
Benefits, Courses, and the Mindfulness Centre
Why Professionals Train in Mindfulness
Mindfulness-based training develops metacognitive skills that individuals, therapists and clients use to bring a meaningful difference to the way we think about, experience and resolve depression and other troubling situations and feel happier - more often. Mindfulness techniques develop a way of relating that enables us to be more kind, self-caring and skilful. Training gives concrete skills that focus on day-to-day living and enable us to extend our internal resources to cope better, increase resilience and to re-engage with the power of hope and the power of happiness.
Training, designed for deep, sustained learning
| Key Benefits |
| For the professional |
| Evidence-based, deep level learning |
| Simple yet important tools |
| Perspective shift --> insight into action |
| Rejuvenating; burnout prevention |
| Taught by registered APS Psychologist |
| For the client |
| Soften the inner dialogue & chatter |
| Concrete tools for use at any time |
| Break thought & behaviour patterns |
| Experience clarity of mind and body |
| Increase capacity for self-soothing |
| Feel more in control, confident & happy |
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Depression and Mindfulness “Depression is the leading cause of disability as measured by YLDs and the fourth leading contributor to the global burden of disease (DALYs) in 2000. By the year 2020, depression is projected to reach second place of the ranking of DALYs calculated for all ages, both sexes. Today, depression is already the second cause of DALYs in the age category 15-44 years for both sexes combined.” - World Health Organisation
Depression will demand increasingly more time and skilful attention from all health professionals. Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) was originally developed to reduce the recurrence of depression by a collaboration of professors in Canada, USA and the UK. MBCT now forms part of some medical school curriculums, and is recommended by the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) as a treatment of choice for depression.
Mindfulness-based approaches have now been shown to be effective in a broad range of areas including depression, stress, focus and compassion fatigue.
Learning Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and other Mindfulness-based approaches provides an often fundamentally new perspective and the tools for relating differently to self-criticism, negative thought and behaviour patterns and other triggers. Health and mental health professionals who attend training with the Mindfulness Centre gain crucial additional tools for dealing with depression, finding clarity and focus and kinder, wiser life choices. Mindfulness training and philosophy will not only give you simple yet significant tools to bring a fresh and meaningful difference to your clients, but in addition they may deeply enrich and rejuvenate your own life and practice.
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Why train with the Mindfulness Centre?
We offer highly experienced trainers, content that is profound, useful and applied, along with a service that is both approachable and specifically designed for effective adult learning.
Director, Psychologist Liana Taylor (CV), has a long history in clinical psychology, Buddhist practice and teaching. Having trained with many of the top Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy teachers in the world, she is amongst the most experienced teachers in Australia, and is deeply committed to continually expanding her understanding and knowledge and sharing that with others. Professional expertise, continuing formal training, regular practice in daily life and a passion for high quality teaching are key characteristics that define all our staff.
Our trainers bring passion, design and added information to Mindfulness-based and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy courses, adding substantially to the learning and engagement levels of participants. We update content as new research emerges.
Feedback from our own training courses is overwhelmingly positive, often highlighting an appreciation of the value added by the trainers, and illustrating the profound impact of the tools in participants’ working and private lives. We delight in the positive impact of our training and offer a range of options to enable people to further their learning.
| To organise an in-house training course across Australia or to ask more questions, contact us at or phone head office on: 08 8272 0046. |
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Who attends our courses?
Our courses are designed for those who want state-of-the-art tools that can create profound inner resources. Mindfulness tools cultivate greater self acceptance, clarity of mind and a sustained inner ability to counter depression, negative thought and behaviour patterns and stress. Attendees include:
- Professionals who offer therapy (eg psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, psychiatrists, counsellors)
- Professionals in other healing professions (eg physiotherapists, doctors, nurses, chiropractors, alternative health practitioners)
- Professionals in community health service (eg pastors, community centre and community outreach program workers)
- Service provider staff in health and mental health areas (eg drug and alcohol service staff, gambling and family violence hotline staff)
- Academics, researchers and policy makers in health and mental health fields
- Those in professions predisposed to compassion fatigue
- Professionals in health and mental health work wanting rejuvenation.
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Program highlights
We offer a range of in-house training courses (read descriptions or view delivery options and pricing), as well as some public training courses (see calendar/register). In addition to receiving expert training, participants will receive a combination of workbooks, CDs and written exercises (to use with clients) relevant to their course.
Our most popular training course is the MBCT - Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy course offered over 3 intensive days (and in SA also available as weekly workshops spread over 5 to 8 weeks).
The highlights from this MBCT foundation course include:
- Mindfulness and MBCT: historical context and psychological research
- Mindfulness in action, taught and experienced as one would work with a client
- Developing a new perspective on unpleasant feelings, thoughts and events
- Recognising familiar tendencies of mind that do not serve well
- Understanding difference – the power of acceptance
- Learning a range of meditations of increasing complexity for different people to help quieten and focus the mind
- Establishing what nourishes and what drains
- Creating clarity and calm – the 3-minute breathing space
- Cultivating positive attention
- Pleasure and mastery
- Re-engaging the power of hope and the power of happiness
- Developing a wise action plan.
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Health Professionals working with clients also like to attend:
Professional Practice: Integration (˝ day).
Highlights include:
- Asking case-specific questions
- Viewing MBCT therapy in action through demonstrations
- Building confidence in the principles and teaching of meditations
- Practising investigative dialogue
- Receiving constructive feedback about teaching
- Receiving professional supervision.
Mindfulness practitioners, executives and managers also like to attend:
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