Principles and Practices of Mindfulness
October 2024
|Deep Bay, near Cygnet, Southern Tasmania
This three-day, immersive, residential development retreat is designed for mental health professionals and teachers who use, or want to use, the principles and practices of mindfulness with their clients and students. 12 CPD points.
Time & Location
October 2024
Deep Bay, near Cygnet, Southern Tasmania
Guests
About the event
For those inclined to practice them, the effects of doing regular mindfulness practices are deeply resonant and personal. However, evidence shows the success of mindfulness training programs is dependent on the teachers’ embodiment of mindfulness in both guidance and reflection.
This experiential retreat will provide health care professionals the opportunity to develop this embodiment and build a deeper understanding of whether, how, when and why to draw on mindfulness practices in treatment settings.
The Principles and Practices of Mindfulness retreat program is structured around the gold standard Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) curriculum, and the four foundations of mindfulness that underpin it. MBSR is the mindfulness course with the strongest evidence of effectiveness for reducing psychological distress and aiding recovery from common mental health disorders such as anxiety, depression and substance use.
You will learn how and why the core mindfulness practices work to cultivate cognitive control, emotional regulation, self-efficacy and…