“After taking the workshop 3 years ago, my lifelong, low-grade depression went away and never came back. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
– 2009 Grad, written May, 2012
“It was an incredibly positive experience for me.”
-NYC Teacher, 2008 Grad, written April, 2012
“Your class was one of the most valuable experiences of my life.”
-PR Exec, 2011 Grad, written April, 2012
For People With a Long History of Depression or Anxiety…
This Mindfulness Meditation Workshop in New York City can help you:
Reduce the power of your negative thoughts…
Live your life more fully…
Learn a new way to relate to experience…
MBCT co-creator. Mark Williams has created this short video on using mindfulness.
The next 12-person Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy workshop begins Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The workshop will run for eight Tuesday evenings. We can have 12 participants. Intake interviews are being scheduled now. If interested, please use Contact to send your questions to Donald Fleck, or call Nikita Shah at 212-546-9200.
Praise from participants in a recent group
“I feel that it has changed my life. “
“It has enriched me.”
“Gave me practical, manageable actions to take that have already made a difference.”
“I feel like a different person… I’m less frustrated and angry.”
“This class has had a huge impact on my attitude on a day-to-day basis.It gave me the tools to much better deal with my negative thinking… it has improved my quality of life.”
“I see real benefits…it’s been great”
“I found the program provided me with helpful tools to cope with depression and anxiety.”
“Developing an ability to face my stresses head-on, experience them, and move on from them, has been the most helpful tool I’ve received…”
“I see the combination of mindfulness and cognitive therapy as something that is much greater synergistically than either by itself.”
“Has been very helpful.”
“Liked seeing how people changed over course of the group.”
“I have been able to look at things differently for the first time since I got depression.”
“Have found it very valuable.”
“Thank you so much for your kind, compassionate and honest facilitating.”
The Next Workshop
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy is offered in mid-town at 501 Madison Avenue @ 52 Street
8 Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30 pm, and 1 Day of Practice 10 am – 4 pm
Beginning May 22
The schedule:
# 1 Tuesday, May 22
# 2 Tuesday, May 29
# 3 Tuesday, June 5
# 4 Tuesday, June 12
# 5 Tuesday, June 19
DAY OF PRACTICE Saturday, June 23, 10-4
#6 Tuesday, June 26
(Skip Tuesday before July 4)
#7 Tuesday, July 10
#8 Tuesday, July 17
Want to know more?
This 8-week Mindfulness Workshop teaches a way to deal with the negative thinking that can take so many people down the sink hole into depression or anxiety, stress or panic.
This evidence-supported treatment was developed by leading psychologists Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and Jon Teasdale. Their work was published in 2002.
Developing a mindful presence can help people get their negative thoughts in perspective. It can lead to a decrease in low moods. It can help prevent negative thinking from taking people down into anxiety and depression.
As a very nice side-effect it can help people enjoy life more fully, as they develop vitality and a ground of acceptance for life in each moment.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) teaches mindfulness as well as cognitive-behavioral skills that help people reduce the risk of depression, anxiety attacks, and other psychological difficulties. It has been university researched and found effective, and in the 12 workshops I have taught so far I have personally seen it help many people.
MBCT is created out of the renowned MBSR program developed by Jon Kabat Zinn at the University of Massachusetts over 25 years ago, and modified 8 years ago by psychologists Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale to bring a focus onto long-term depression. MBCT uses meditation and mindfulness to help bring you relief from the powerful negative thoughts that are so destructive to your attempts to keep depression and anxiety at bay. MBCT can bring lasting change in the way you relate to your life, as well as improved self-esteem and increased ability to cope with emotional pain and stress. Participants may or may not be on psychotropic medication for this workshop, the material is useful either way.
The basic elements of MBCT are the practice of mindfulness and using cognitive-behavioral methods to change the way participants relate to their negative thinking. Each week participants will learn new mindfulness and awareness skills, and will practice them daily. Participants need to have recovered sufficiently from their most recent depression to be able to do the home practice that is a critical part of MBCT. Further details, including detailed research references and practitioners around the globe, are available at www.MBCT.Com
RECOMMENDED READING
The Mindful Way through Depression by Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn. The book is $20 and includes a CD with a full set of guided meditations.
For my review of the book, press here.
Answers to your questions
‘Not to Miss’ articles on Mindfulness - press here
More on MBCT – press here.
Or call Donald Fleck at 917 202-5148
Register now:
Use Contact to begin registration, or call Nikita Shah at 212 546-9200.