Sussex Partnership Training
Who for?
Exploring Mindfulnessbased Cognitive
Therapies (MBCT)
The workshop is intended for those with
an interest in mindfulness-based
approaches and/or Cognitive Behaviour
Therapy (CBT)
A one-day workshop
Overview:
This workshop invites participants to explore
the “C” side of MBCT.
What exactly is the cognitive understanding of
human distress that underlies both CBT and
MBCT?
What are the intentions of the two
approaches?
Training Lead: Melanie Fennell
Date: 15th July 2016
Venue: Sussex Education Centre, Nevill
Avenue, Hove BN3 7HY
What are the differences between CBT and
MBCT?
Cost: £110.00
Funded for Trust Approved Teachers
And what do they have in common?
Certificate of attendance will be awarded on
the day.
*Please note: Refreshments are provided,
Lunch will not be provided
Request a booking form:
[email protected]
Exploring MBCT's cognitive
A one-day workshop with Melanie Fennell
Overview
Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) represents an integration between two very different
traditions: the eastern tradition of insight meditation, founded in Buddhism, and the more recent
western tradition of cognitive and clinical science. In order to become MBCT teachers, we need to
understand, appreciate and respect the contributions of both traditions.
The workshop will be both interactive and experiential. It will offer opportunities for participants
to explore, both through experience and through discussion, how the integration of a cognitive
conceptual framework with intensive training in mindfulness meditation helps participants in
MBCT classes to respond kindly and wisely to distress, and how it addresses key processes that
create vulnerability to depression and contribute to the persistence of low mood.
Workshop Leader
Dr Melanie Fennell was a pioneer of cognitive therapy for depression in the UK. As a research
clinician in the Oxford University Dept of Psychiatry, she contributed to developing and evaluating
cognitive behavioural treatments for depression and anxiety disorders. Between 2003 and 2013
she worked with Professor Mark Williams, helping to develop MBCT for people suffering recurrent
depression who are also recurrently suicidal. She developed the Oxford Diploma in Cognitive
Therapy, the Oxford Diploma/MSc in Advanced Cognitive Therapy Studies, and (with Professor
Williams) the Oxford MSt in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (on which she still teaches).
She has extensive experience of teaching, training and supervising CBT and MBCT. Her book
"Overcoming low self-esteem" has become a classic of self-help literature, recommended by the
UK NHS's "Books on Prescription" scheme. In July 2002, she was voted “Most Influential Female UK
Cognitive Therapist” by the membership of the BABCP, and in 2013 was awarded an Honorary
Fellowship by the Association.
Background reading not required. For interest only:
Fennell, M.J.V. & Segal, Z.V. (2012) Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: Culture clash or creative fusion?
(pp.125-142) In J.M.G.Williams & J. Kabat-Zinn (Eds), Mindfulness: Diverse Perspectives on Its Meaning,
Origins, and Applications. Routledge, Abingdon UK (papers by Buddhist scholars, scientists, clinicians and
mindfulness teachers)
Tirch,D., Silberstein,, L.R. & Kolts, R.L. (2016) Buddhist psychology and cognitive-behavioural therapy.
Guilford, New York