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ACAT Mindfulness and Inner Dialogue
18th March 2016

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ACAT Mindfulness and Inner Dialogue

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A one day CPD event presented by Elizabeth Wilde McCormick

Friday, 18th March 2016

09:30 for a 10:00 start, finishing at 16:30

The Augustana Centre, 30 Thanet Street, London WC1H 9QH

Cost: ACAT Member £120 (online) / Non-member £135 (online)

Please note, payment by cheque or invoice will incur an additional administration fee of £15

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The ancient practice of Mindfulness is a form of enquiry, a way of getting inside experience.  It means paying attention, on purpose and non-judgementally, to the present moment. 

In our CAT practice we encourage the steps of noticing, stopping, staying with experience and revising habitual ways of being and reacting, especially when they lead to things going wrong. Until revised difficult emotional experiences often solidify into core pain around which reciprocal roles intensify. The investigative and kind aspect of mindfulness allows us to begin to melt the frozen ice of ourselves and discover our fluid nature.

This CPD day will offer:

Group experiences and sharing of the practice of mindfulness through sitting, breathing and walking.

Experience of understanding how our own reciprocal roles, and those of our patients, are carried in our bodies, in our posture and gestures.

Discussions and sharing of the concept of chronically endured pain and how to be with it.

Mindfulness of emotion including a ‘Touch and Go practice’.  

Allowing a safe and creative space around what has become frozen so that a new dance of a more compassionate self to self dialogue may begin.

Participants will:

Learn from their own experience whether the practice of mindfulness is something they might relate to and find useful in their clinical work.

Learn ways in which mindfulness fosters a ‘decentred’ relationship with mental constructs which helps support responses rather than reactions.

Gain an understanding of research findings that show mindfulness can help to create new neural pathways in the brain. 

Understand the application of mindfulness within clinical practice and counter indications.

Elizabeth Wilde McCormick is a psychotherapist and writer. She is a founder member of ACAT and currently a Trustee.  She has been interested in both the history and practice of mindfulness since the 1990’s, has her own daily practice and is part of a weekly group.  For the last six years she has been incorporating mindfulness into individual CAT sessions and leading workshops in mindfulness and inner dialogue and reciprocal roles.  Her background is in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology, Social Psychiatry and Sensorimotor psychotherapy and she has also completed the mindfulness based stress reduction training at The North Wales Centre for Mindfulness at Bangor.

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How to book:

•    book and pay by personal credit or debit card online instantly via this webpage 

•    by email, attaching the booking form* with full invoicing details, to: maria.cross@acat.me.uk 

•    by post, enclosing the booking form* and a cheque made payable to ACAT, to: ACAT, PO Box 6793, Dorchester, DT1 9DL

* Available for download at the end of this page

Enquiries:

Email: maria.cross@acat.me.uk or telephone: 01305 263511

Cancellations / Refund Policy:  

A refund, less a £25 administration fee, will be made if cancellations are received, in writing, at least four weeks before the event. We regret that any cancellation after this time cannot be refunded, and refunds for failure to attend the event cannot be made.

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