Teaching Clients to Use Mindfulness Skills

A one day course blending mindfulness practice with case discussion focused on how to use mindfulness techniques with clients. Mindfulness, with its origins thousands of years old, has recently become popular within psychotherapy and the emotion and behaviour change fields. Can be taken as an individual one-day course or as a part of a Master Practitioner Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Approved by the British Psychological Society Learning Centre. Read “Get Ready for the Second Wave of Mindfulness” By ELISHA GOLDSTEIN, PH.D. Why should I use mindfulness in my practice? Offering an alternative and radical approach to seemingly insoluble problems, mindfulness can release both therapist and client from failure and feeling helpless. How to stop clients banging their heads on brick walls The pigeon and the cowboy: ways to be unmindful When is acceptance better than change? Reasons to be mindful : 1,2,3 What exactly is mindfulness? Theories of Mindfulness What is mindfulness? Does mindfulness work? 4 ways to be mindful Practical skills: practicing mindfulness step by step How can I use mindfulness in my practice? Delegates will experience mindfulness techniques together throughout the day with opportunities to reflect on how to apply this in their own clinical practice. Who can benefit from mindfulness? The how and what of mindfulness How to introduce mindfulness into your practice How to introduce mindfulness to clients Rationale: metaphors In-session practice Our of session practice Using mindfulness in challenging situations Building mindfulness into clients’ everyday lives Delegates will use their own case examples to select areas where the targeted use of mindfulness would be helpful and to plan how to engage their client in applying mindfulness to overcome problems and increase wellbeing This course is part of the training programme that enables you to complete the BPS Approved Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. You can build up gradually your CBT training portfolio by attending all the courses within the programme at the pace that suits you. All your training hours will be calculated, recorded in an individual validated log and accumulated towards your full Diploma.
	Early Bird Price: £120 + VAT (£144) per delegate to include refreshments and course materials. This discount is available on bookings made more than 1 month prior the course date event. Regular Price: £140 + VAT (£168).
	Certificate of Attendance: You receive a Certificate of Attendance for 7 CPD training hours on the day.
	Reading List for this Module: Click Here
	Additional Components of the Diploma: Evidenced Reading Hours Supervision

Course Outline:

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE THE COURSE

IMPORTANT! THIS IS A BPS APPROVED COURSE AND ALL THE TRAINING HOURS OF THIS COURSE SHOULD BE COMPLETED IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR THE BPS APPROVED CERTIFICATE.
Please make sure that you arrive in time for 9.30 AM start (sharp!). Your late arrival might result in you not been eligible for the BPS Approved Certificate.
The same applies to the finish times. Make sure that your travel arrangements enable you to be present until 4.30 PM every day of the course.
We very much appreciate your co-operation on this matter.

Every day consists of the morning session (starting at 9.30 AM sharp!) and afternoon session (finishing at 4.30 PM strictly).
Refreshments provided during your morning (11.15) and afternoon (14.45) break.
Lunch break (1 hour) – lunch by own arrangements (12.30 – 13.30).

Due to the INTENSIVE NATURE of this training we advise you to have extra drinks of water with you and layers of clothing to adjust effectively to the temperature in the room.


• Introductions, aims for day
• What is mindfulness?
• Mindfulness exercise 1
• The pigeon and the cowboy: ways to be unmindful
• Choose a ‘stuck’ client, share with partner
• Feedback
• Experiencing the present: ways to be mindful
• Video
• Mindfulness exercise 2
• Why is mindfulness important?
• Feedback
• When acceptance is better than change: when trying to change it makes it worse; when it can’t be changed
• How to stop banging your head on a brick wall
• Alternatives to your usual treatment practice
• Reasons to be mindful
• Mindfulness exercise 3
• Behaving mindfully
- 1 Non-judgmental stance
- 2 Observing and describing
- 3 Participating
- 4 Staying in the moment
• Reasons to be mindful
• Demonstration
• Feedback
• In pairs: how can you use mindfulness techniques and values work with your client?
• Feedback
• How to introduce mindfulness to clients
• In-session and out of session practice
• Mindfulness exercise 4
• Feedback
• Using mindfulness in challenging situations
• Building mindfulness into clients’ everyday lives
• In pairs, how might today affect your practice?
• Feedback
• Review of day
• Evaluations, goodbye

Course Leader:

Dr. Fiona C. Kennedy
Consultant Clinical Psychologist

Fiona has a vast clinical experience in mental health (from anxiety through eating disorders and PTSD, to psychosis and personality disorders) and learning disability fields. Fiona’s main orientation for many years has been Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT). She was a Board Member/Trustee for the British Association of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists (BABCP). She has extensive experience of teaching and presenting, giving regular input to doctoral training programmes and teaching other professionals. Amongst many other research projects she has studied dissociation after trauma that led to a new theoretical model and scale, as well as innovative new treatments. The creation of an effective treatment service for self-harming, suicidal, ‘revolving door’ inpatients was quoted as an example of national excellence by the governments’ National Audit Office in its House of Commons report ‘Safer Patient Services’ 2005. She has presented her research at many national and international conferences and received an award for clinical excellence from BUPA. With her deep knowledge of the subject and outstanding leadership qualities Dr Fiona Kennedy is a truly inspirational tutor.