half day workshop

MINDFULNESS – A WORKSHOP FOR INSTRUCTORS
Mark Williams, University of Oxford, UK and Antonia Sumbundu, Center for Cognitive Therapi, Sankt Hans Hospital, Denmark

AC Hotel Room: Sants

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) combines Jon Kabat Zinn’s Stress Reduction program with techniques from Cognitive Therapy in an eight week ‘class’ format.  Following preliminary evidence for its efficacy in reducing relapse and recurrence in patients who have had three or more episodes of depression, interest has grown in applying the mindfulness approach to a variety of mental health problems across a range of different settings.

Mark Williams is Wellcome Principal Research Fellow in the University of Oxford.  He has been interested in cognitive models and treatment of depression and suicidal behaviour for many years, and has recently been collaborating with John Teasdale and Zindel Segal in developing this mindfulness-based cognitive therapy to prevent relapse and recurrence in major depression.    Antonia Sumbundu is clinical psychologist at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at St. Hans Hospital, where she teaches and coordinates a training program in CBT, supervises staff in CBT, offers CBT and runs mindfulness-based groups for patients. She has been interested in cognitive therapy, mindfulness meditation and Buddhist psychology for many years and teaches and supervises mindfulness-based approaches in a number of settings.

Key References:
Kabat-Zinn, J.(1990)  Full catastrophe living.  New York: Delacorte.  Segal, Z.V., Williams, J.M.G., & Teasdale, J.D. (2002) Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression: a new approach to preventing relapse.  New York, Guilford Press. 
Baer, R.A. (2003) Mindfulness training as clinical intervention: a conceptual and empirical review. Clinical Psychology Science and Practice, 10, 125-143 (and subsequent papers in that edition of the journal)