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    Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer

    Specialist Teacher Training Online

MBCT-Ca

MBCT for Cancer (MBCT-Ca) is being offered to people with cancer in clinical settings, charity support groups, and many other contexts in the UK and abroad. The MBCT-Ca programme was developed over many years in a Welsh oncology centre by Trish Bartley and supported by John Teasdale. MBCT for Cancer (a teacher’s handbook) was published in 2012 (Bartley, 2012).

Four Day Training

This four day online specialist teacher training is for mindfulness-based teachers currently working or interested in working with people with cancer. We will explore the values, practice and approach of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer (MBCT-Ca).

Special Opportunity

This special opportunity offers you a chance to explore and develop the skills, inspiration and understanding to work safely in the field of mindfulness for cancer – and to connect with others working in psycho-oncology, cancer support and palliative care with the same aspirations.

December 2020

Orientation Session Thursday 3rd - 5:30 – 7:30 UK time (vital to attend)

  • Day 1 Friday December 4th 9-5 UK time.
  • Day 2 Saturday December 5th 9-5 UK time
  • Day 3 Friday December 11th 9-5 UK time
  • Day 4 Saturday December 12th 9-5 UK time

Costs: € 825

Trish Bartley

Trish Bartley has taught mindfulness to people with cancer since 2001. She developed MBCT for Cancer (MBCT-Ca), supported by John Teasdale and Mark Williams (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer, 2012). She continues to teach MBCT-Ca to clinical groups and one to one to those with advanced illness. She has also written Mindfulness, A Kindly Approach for People with Cancer, (2017) intended for people at any stage of their illness.
Trish works closely with Christina Shennan, offering specialist teacher training and development in MBCT for Cancer in the UK, online with See True Mindfulness, and further afield. They trained mindfulness teachers in Hong Kong in 2019 and in Milan in 2018.

Trish’s background is in community development. She is a member of the core training team at Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University / The Mindfulness Network. She has worked for See True since 2010 and regularly trains mindfulness teachers abroad and supports retreats in the UK, Europe and South Africa.

Trish has a particular interest in the role of the group in Mindfulness-based Programs and trainings. She recently co-wrote The Inside Out Group Model: Teaching Groups in Mindfulness-based Programs (Mindfulness, 2019) and is in the process of writing a book Teaching Mindfulness-based Groups, which will be published in 2021.

Christina Shennan

Christina Shennan is an experienced psychotherapist and mindfulness-based teacher in Psychological Services in the UK’s National Health Service. She has worked with people with cancer, as a psychotherapist and as a mindfulness-based teacher in hospice and in day care settings for nearly 20 years.

She has been teaching Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer (MBCT-Ca) to cancer patients, their families and carers since 2008 (including work with young people with cancer). With Trish Bartley, Christina has developed a training programme for MBCT-Ca teachers in Europe, the UK and further afield, which has been delivered over many years.

Christina is a member of the core training team at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University / The Mindfulness Network – and leads a teacher training module on the CMRP, Bangor University, Masters in Mindfulness Programme

Programme

Over the four days we will explore the intention, approach and new/different aspects of the eight-week MBCT-Ca programme, paying particular attention to:

• ways of adapting the core practices as they are guided for cancer participants
• the brief practices and new exercises and processes that have been created within MBCT-Ca
• ways that we can emphasise and work with kindness and self compassion within the intervention
• understanding the cognitive model that underpins MBCT-Ca – and the place of the four practice movements of Intention; Coming Back; Turning Towards; and Kindness
• exploring the teaching implications of working with this population and how we can support ourselves as teachers.

The training will use a variety of (mainly experiential) processes including:

• practice
• dialogue and inquiry in both peer groups and the large group
• discussion and reflection in small and large groups
• presentation

We will work together on zoom platform, so it is important for you to have good enough internet and laptop / computer to use to enable you to access the online training.
One of the advantages of this online training is being able to offer a foundation that will help when teaching people with cancer online.

Participants must commit to the entire training. Unless there are exceptional circumstances, we are unable to negotiate late arrivals or early leaving.