Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT) - 8-week course - Oxford Mindfulness Foundation

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (MBCT) - 8-week course
Date: 31/10/2024 - 19/12/2024
Location: Online

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for depression (MBCT) is an eight-week group programme recommended in national health guidelines for people who suffer from depression, either currently, or in the past. Weekly sessions last two hours and combine mindfulness meditation with cognitive therapy exercises enabling us to become more aware of our mind and body and begin to dissolve some of our unhelpful habits of thinking such as rumination, worry and self criticism.

Over the past 15 years MBCT has become increasingly available within health services as the advantages of using this approach have become more established. Its popularity has increased as people are drawn to the central message of MBCT; that our lives are immeasurably impoverished by our habitual tendency to be on 'automatic pilot', during which the richness of momentary experience passes unnoticed. MBCT helps us develop an alternative way of being with experience as we learn skills to more fully engage with our present experience, to be 'in the moment'.

Our 8-week MBCT courses are offered in collaboration with the Nottingham Centre for Mindfulness (located within the NHS), who have been providing MBCT to people accessing their clinical services since 2007. Their mindfulness teachers offer this intervention in a wide range of clinical settings.

Full Dates: Thursdays: 31/10, 7/11, 14/11, 21/11, 28/11, 5/12, 12/12, 19/12

09:30-11:30 UK Time

Fees & availability

Standard Rate - pays facilitator and OMF costs: £300.00
Supported Rate - for those with low incomes: £275.00
Supporting Rate - supports others to attend who are on low incomes: £325.00

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The health declaration information you provide is used to assess your suitability for this course. It is kept as confidential and is available to Oxford Mindfulness Foundation staff, who may need to contact you for further discussion.

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Following the submission of your pre-course questionnaire, you may be contacted by the Course Lead to discuss if the course is appropriate for you to attend at this time. If you mutually decide that it is not, you will be refunded in full.

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