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Offering a new Extended training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)*, Functional Analytical Psychotherapy (FAP) and Relational Frame Theory (RFT), with fortnightly supervision to measure your increasing ACT-consistency.

*Delivered by three ACBS peer-reviewed ACT Trainers

Our ACT training is approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre for the purposes of Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Advanced Diploma in Mindfulness-based Cognitive-behavioural therapies

Although it is designed as a three year part-time study, the module system allows for flexibility. You can take on as little or as much training as you prefer.

46 Units/284 hours of training (including 100 hour foundation diploma course)

The advanced Diploma consists of doing training to advanced levels in MBCT, ACT and TIR, as well as completing a clinical placement of 150hours under supervision.

Fees: £1850 year 1 if paid in installments or £1800/year if paid in one go. Subsequent years are about £150/year extra due to longer MBCT teacher development retreats.

Advanced Diploma in Mindfulness-based Cognitive-behavioural therapies: incorporating ACT, TIR and MBCT
3 Year Advanced Diploma Year 1 Foundation Diploma in MBCB Therapies Integrated Year 2 Advanced Diploma MBCB Therapies Part 1 Year 3 Advanced Diploma MBCB Therapies Part 2
TIR Workshops with Henry Whitfield TIR , Level I, 4 Units TIR Expanded Applications, Level II,
3 Units
TIR - Case planning for LSR, Level V, 2 Units
MBCT Courses MBCT for Depression, 4 Units MBCT Trainer Training Part 1, 5 Units MBCT Trainer Training Part 2, 5 Units
ACT workshops ACT Four Day Skills Intensive Part 1 of 2, 4 Units
With Martin Wilks and Henry Whitfield
ACT  Four Day Skills Intensive Part 2 of 2, 4 Units
With David Gillanders, Martin Wilks & Henry Whitfield.
ACT
Further Applications
Part 3, 2 Units
With Martin Wilks.

Supervision for  Mindfulness Therapies  Programme (each run over 8 months) Integrated Mindfulness Therapies (IMT) with Henry Whitfield

4 Units

ACT  supervision programme with Martin Wilks or Henry J. Whitfield

4 Units

 Integrated Mindfulness Therapies (IMT) and TIR Accreditation with Henry Whitfield

4 Units

Total Units/Hours
46Units/284Hours
16 Units/ 100 Contact hours 16 Units/ 100 Contact hours 14 Units/ 84 Contact hours

Foundation Diploma
(Year 1 of Advanced Diploma)

The foundation training is the training we recommend students do first. However students may start with other training if they wish. The foundation training is a requirement for those wishing to complete the advanced diploma.

Year 1 Foundation for Integrated Mindfulness Therapies
Name of Module Units/Hours
TIR Introduction Workshop, Level I, Module 1:An induction into enabling detached observation of 'private' inner events, within one on one counselling.  2 Units/ 12hrs
TIR Level I, Module 2. Unearthing previously unaccessed traumatic incidents with themes. Unblocking. 2 Units/ 16hrs
ACT: Four Day Skills Intensive Part 1 of 2 4 Units/ 28hrs
MBCT for Depression: An experiential introduction to the theory and application of MBCT, with Martin Wilks. 4 Units/ 28hrs
Supervision for Integrated Mindfulness Therapies Timetable: 2 hours supervision session in group. Run remotely through class www.wiziq.com webportal. 8 Sessions 2009-2010; 4Units/ 16hrs

16 Units/ 100 Contact hours
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Our modular programme enables students to take this training at their own pace:

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Second Year

Year 2 Integrated Mindfulness Therapies
Name of Module Units/Hours
TIR Expanded Applications, Level II:This workshop includes how to work integratively with mindfulness as the core-theoretical model, and how to write detailed, mindfulness-based treatment plans. 3 Unit/ 21hrs
MBCT Instructor Training Part 1 5 Units/ 35hrs
Four Day Skills Intensive Part 2 of 2 4 Units/ 28hrs
ACT 8 month Supervision Programme 4 Units/ 16hrs
  16 Units/ 100 Contact hours
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Third Year

Year 3 MBCB Therapies Integrated
Name of Module Units/Hours
Case planning for TIR and Life Stress Reduction, Level IV 3 Units/24hrs
MBCT Instructor Training Part 2; Timetable: 11am-5pm 5 Units/ 30hrs
ACT Advanced Part 3 2 Units/ /14hrs
Integrated Mindfulness Therapies (IMT) Supervision and TIR Accreditation programme with Henry Whitfield 4Units/ 16hours
  14 Units/ 84 Contact hours
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Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Trainers: Martin Wilks MSc, C.Psychol and Henry Whitfield MSc .

17-18 Sept + 1-2 Oct 2020
CPD Value: 28 hours
Fee: £535
Location: Islington, London N1

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy marries mindfulness and behaviour change strategies to offer a highly versatile mindfulness-informed cognitive behavioural therapy. This 'marriage' has done much to reach clients who shied away from traditional CBT, and brought a more evidence-based approach to those who previously thrived best in the more 'humanistic' approaches. Over 150 randomised control trials have shown ACT to be effective at addressing varied psychological issues. Independent research evaluators such as the APA recognize ACT's evidence base for Depression, Mixed Anxiety, OCD, Psychosis and Chronic Pain (See State of the act evidence for more details).

An essential part of progressing as a therapist is to receive regular feedback. Evidence suggests that short two day workshops do little to bring about behaviour change in psychological therapists (Luoma, 2009). Hence we offer a training for those who want to develop the skills to offer ACT with confidence and flexibility. We also provide on going supervision as an additional service.

Our modular ACT training offers a well tested, systematic approach to ACT skills building, developed over 9 years of ACT teaching experience. Henry Whitfield and Martin Wilks offered the first dedicated ACT skills training in the UK and have trained over 900 ACT therapists. Efficient skills learning methods have always been the primary focus of our training programmes.

Day 1 -

Meeting the Model and the Context. (hexa-flex/psychological flexibility).

The ACT therapeutic stance. Demonstrated examples of key guidelines in action. Confronting the control agenda. When controlling your thoughts and feelings is unworkable, how do you ease a client (and yourself) out of the 'quicksand'?.

Identify a value thwarted by avoidance and discover what's more important than the avoidance.

The trappings of language: Learn a spectrum of methods for loosening the grip of thought and language. Hold lightly those ideas that push for unworkable behaviour. 'I'm not good enough, therefore I...'

Identifying your personal “Bold Move” – a simple, achievable, behavioural step in the direction of what matters to you; a step you can take before start of Day 2. '

Day 2 -

Debrief of the Bold move – techniques employed, lessons learned.

Present moment: Examples of eyes-closed meditations and one on one interventions that bring a client out of her mind and into the present.

Psychological flexibility and self-concept issues: How to develop and foster a flexible sense of self. How to speak about the ineffable. Variety of group experiential exercises designed to ‘point out’ a tangible sense of observer self.

How to overcome and respond to the pitfalls in values clarification. Facilitating each others’ precise articulation of a Values Mission statement that best addresses the issues that you have been working upon.

Behaviour change: Do your action tendencies match your values? What does your mind have to say about the new path before you? Bringing behaviour change to what you learnt in day one, you will coach and be coached to walk a new path. You will identify a medium term goal to bring to account at morning session of day 3.


Day 3 -

Moving seemlessly between the processes. Practice applying multiple ACT processes together. The right combination in the right context can be pivotal.

Overview of all processes with clinical examples. Guided meditation that includes all six processes.

Live and video examples of Willingness and Values. These two processes naturally feed into each other. Pain leads to values, values lead to pain. Accessing the value that is more important than the pain/avoided emotion.

Present moment and Willingness. To be more aware is to open up. Video and live examples of applying these two processes together.

Time for practice and feedback.

Day 4 -

Bringing four processes together using metaphors such as the Life Bus. More live and video examples to analyse. Emphasizing the coupling of cognitive defusion and committed action. What do the bus passengers say as you turn the wheel of the bus towards what's important? Break the rules!

Present moment and the observer self. Get present to the ever changing process of yourself concept.

Further video examples to 'bring it all together'. All six processes applied in one session flexibly.

Further real-plays for applying it all, as the moment demands, flexibly, and with feedback.

These four days are prerequisite to our Intensive ACT skills Part 2 training.

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy

Experiential Introduction MBCT Course:

Trainer: Martin Wilks Chartered Psychologist, BPS , AFBPsS, BSc. Psychol (hons), Dip PC Couns. MSc Couns Psychol, Dip Couns Psychol.

Dates: TBC.
4 day course
CPD Value: 28 hours
Location: Islington, London N1
Fee: £535

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.

This course is also appropriate for those who just want to experience MBCT for their own wellbeing.

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.

Teacher Development - Part 1:

Trainer: Helen Stephenson

Dates: TBC
Outside London Dates: TBC
CPD Value: 35 hours
Fees: £785 (£695 if paid 2 calendar months prior to start of the course). Fee if paying via your institution: £880.

 

About the Trainers

Martin Wilks Chartered Psychologist, BPS , AFBPsS BSc. Psychol (hons), Dip PC Couns. MSc Couns Psychol, Dip Couns Psychol

Martin has cultivated his personal mindfulness practice for over 25 years. For 17 yrs, working as both psychologist and visiting Buddhist minister, he facilitated mindfulness-based groups and counselling services in a central London prison. In private practice, since 2002 he has been developing the use of ACT in short term work and weaves many ACT & MBCT practices and procedures into longer term mindfulness-based psychotherapy. His research interests focus upon qualitative, participant inquiry methods exploring the integration of mindfulness meditation with counseling.

Henry J. Whitfield MSc, MBACP, ACBS peer-reviewed ACT trainer, Accredited Advanced TIR trainer and TIR practitioner (TIRA)

Henry set up Mindfulness Training Ltd in 2006. His research interests include the theoretical and practical integration of mindfulness with cognitive behavioural theories, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy processes and in case-formulated applications of mindfulness. After 4 years as a trauma specialist for Victim Support Lambeth, Henry has since conducted empirical research for City and Hackney Mind, and SPCP Regents College, London investigating the process of values within different approaches to trauma counselling. He also works in private practice, and teaches widely on the subject of Mindfulness-consistent therapies.

 

 
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