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**Mindfulness-based Cognitive therapy with Dr. Patrizia Collard**
   
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   "Train to Gain' scheme may fund your MBCT training if you are
     in a decision making position for a small business or charity"
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Following are details of our MBCT training with dates. You can fill out our
online application if you would like a place on the course.
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Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy
Trainer: Patrizia Collard PhD
Level 1: An Experiential Introduction to MBCT
Dates: 16-17th (Saturday - Sunday) January 2010 +
20-21st (Saturday - Sunday) February 2010 (4 days)
Fee: £480 / £450 if booked before 4th December
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This four day course teaches you mindfulness interventions (meditations,
every-day mindfulness and mindful movement) and will introduce you to ways
of identifying and dealing with difficult physical sensations, feelings and
moods commonly associated with stress, anxiety, pain and depression. The
experience of working in a group can enhance one's own learning as we
observe how fellow human beings grow and change.

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy has been developed with the aim of
reducing relapse and recurrence for those who are vulnerable to episodes of
depression. This empowering way of working has also gained empirical
validation. It is needed because the risk of relapse and recurrence in those
who have been depressed is very high, and the amount of triggering required
for each subsequent episode becomes lower each time depression recurs.

Jon-Kabat-Zinn's book, Full Catastrophe Living (1990; New York: Delacorte)
describes many of the methods used in the MBCT programme and is an excellent
introduction to clinical applications of mindfulness meditation training,
also applicable to chronic pain, anxiety, and stress-related physical illness.

This training is in line with established MBCT trainer training standards
and will require you to do meditational homework. However, there is
currently no official accreditation or qualification existant for MBCT, even
though the academic institutions have established particular standards (to
which we adhere).
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MBCT Trainer:

Dr. Patrizia C. Collard PhD, BABCP accredited, UKCP reg., MISMA, MAC

Patrizia is an experienced MBCT and MBSR trainer and is a Senior Lecturer
for Integrative Psychotherapy and Counselling (University of East London).
Patrizia was also resident in Hong Kong and China for 9 years where she
studied Taoism, Buddhism, Energy work, Meditation and Yoga. Patrizia also
has research interests in Autism and Mindfulness.

Recent publications: 'Multimodal Stress Therapy' in 'Integration in
Psychotherapy', Routledge 2006. 'The Counsellor's Handbook' a practical A-Z
guide to integrative counselling and psychotherapy, Nelson Thornes, 2008
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You can also contact us if you have any questions on +44 (0)20 7689 0390, or
write them in the online application form below.
 
Kind regards,
Henry Whitfield

Online application form: http://tir.org.uk/apply.html