For People With a Long History of Depression or Anxiety…
This Mindfulness Meditation Workshop in New York City, NY will help you:
Reduce the power of your negative thoughts…
Increase your ability to cope in difficult times…
Control depression, anxiety, stress and panic…
Learn a new way to relate to experience…
and to life.
The next workshop begins Tuesday, Mar 13, at 6:30.
Call Nikita at 212 546-9200 to register for an intake interview. Limit 12 per group.
Mindfulness-Based approaches are useful for a wide variety of people. Working with CBT/DBT Associates, I have found mindfulness meditation and cognitive therapy helpful for depression, anxiety, stress, panic, and worry. We teach an 8-week class for 12 people at a time. If you have any questions about how it relates to your needs, please do not hesitate to contact us.
MBCT was created by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams, and John Teasdale. Mark Williams has created this short video giving some background on the choice to use mindfulness, and the need for a new treatment for people with histories of depression. He also gives an outline of how it works.
In the video below, Mark Williams discusses how mindfulness is helpful for stress, whether the stress relates to depression or other factors. MBCT was inspired by Jon Kabat-Zinn’s MBSR, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. MBCT can also be helpful for stress. Mark Williams on Mindfulness, Stress, and Depression
Here’s a lecture by Stuart Eisendrath of the University of California at San Francisco. It is called Staying in the Now: Mental Health Through Mindfulness. While long, it is very informative, including research on using MBCT with generalized anxiety disorder, interepisode bi-polar disorder, and depression. Also includes some exposure to MBCT techniques.VIDEO: Staying in the Now: Mental Health Through Mindfulness
The next 12-person Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) workshop begins Tuesday, March 13, 2012, at
a private practice group specializing in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy
The workshop will run for eight Tuesday evenings. We can have 12 participants. Intake interviews are being scheduled now. If interested, please call Nikita Shah, CBT/DBT Clinical Intake Coordinator 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 conjunction with
CBT/DBT ASSOCIATES
501 Madison Avenue @ 52 Street
8 Tuesday evenings 6:30-8:30 pm, and 1 Day of Practice 10 am – 4 pm
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.
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 10 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 – CBT/DBT Associates and Donald Fleck – press here