Wednesday 14th, 21st, 28th, SEPT; 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th, Oct; ends 2nd Nov 2022
8 x Wednesday evenings 7pm to 9pm
plus follow up catch up session 2pm to 5.30pm 19th March Sunday 2023
Leader: Pippa O'Connor
Costs: £280 [£225 if on low income; £155 if living off benefits]
If you are eligible for a concession, click the correct booking button and then “Concession code”. Use code “concession-225” (low income) or “concession-155” (if living off benefits). For our concessions policy please click here.
Prices include materials and the additional practice afternoon.
Mindfulness is designed to help you handle difficult thoughts, feelings and moods by learning to respond rather than react to life's difficulties. You will learn the core skill of mindfulness, a way of being present in your body and mind, and aware of the world around you. This enables you to cultivate and increase awareness and offers potential for positive change.
Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy takes a secular approach to awareness techniques that have been proven in the treatment of a number of conditions by scientific, evidenced based research and endorsed by UK - NICE (National Institue for Clinical Excellence).
Mindfulness can help to develop greater resilience. Supported by ongoing practice, skills, knowledge, wisdom and understanding. Most people gain lasting benefits: awareness, emotional regulation, more energy and enthusiasm; greater capacity for relaxation; more self-confidence; and an increased ability to handle difficult situations.
Mindfulness practice will not remove a source of distress or discomfort, but it can open up choice through a shift in responses to difficult experiences and judging, critical mind sets.
MBCT is for symptoms of worry, anxiety, depression, trauma, compulsive behaviours, difficult stuck and habitual recurring patterns. MBCT training will help you gain more meaning, value, purpose in your life. This Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy follows the Oxford evidenced - based training to prevent depressive relapse.
Mindfulness is designed to help you handle difficult thoughts, critical and judging mind sets, challenging feelings, and moods by learning to respond rather than react to life's difficulties. You will learn the core skill of mindfulness, a way of being present in your body and mind, and aware of the world around you. This enables you to cultivate and increase awareness and offers potential for positive change.
The Mindfulness courses help to develop skills to meet the ups and downs of everyday life as well as to manage:
Anxiety
Depression
Stress
Trauma
Fear, worry, panic
Self-awareness, compassion and empathy
Chronic illness and pain
Addictive behaviours
Sleep difficulties
Difficult relationships, personal and impersonal
Pippa says: " The first step is to 'wake up' to how we are with ourselves, then to observe and tolerate the difficulties. These will pass in time. However, while we are experiencing a critical mind and strong emotions, we can feel they will never change. This is why we train in awareness, neural plasticity, self - regulate emotion skills, self soothing and patience, not to get rid of life difficulties straight away, but to stand side by side, and in time our symptymology will lessen and we will have a much kinder and transformative relaitonship with our self, others and the world around us."
Tutor: Pippa O'Connor (BSc; MSc; PGCE & Dip) Senior lecturer in Mindfulness Based Clinical Applications at the Priory, North London Hospital, Southgate. She is a Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Teacher / Psychotherapist, at The Tavistock & Portman Hospital, London Clinic Hospital, Harley Street & Priory Hospital, London. Specialising - (CBT) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Addiction and Trauma Focused Therapy / EMDR. Relationship Diploma
IMPORTANT :
If one has an emergency and requests to change, from Live sessions to Zoom / online, we do allow this but then one must return to your live place in the mindfulness class as there is a waiting list for live spaces at the North London Buddhist Centre and your place could off gone to someone else.
Pippa O'Connor
Psychotherapist (BSc; MSc; PGCE & Dip) and senior lecturer in Mindfulness Based Clinical Applications at the North London Hospital, Southgate. She is a Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Consultant at Tavistock Hospital and has a BSC in Cognitive Behaviour, Addiction and Trauma/ DIP Trauma/ EMDR.