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)
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.
4 Units
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.
Our modular programme enables students to take this training at their own pace:
Second Year
Third Year
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
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.
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.