Mindfulness & Compassion for Mental Health Professionals
A five week online course, to support you in bringing mindfulness and compassion into your one to one work… as a resource for you and for your clients.
Facilitated by Dr Tony Bates, Prof Brendan Kelly, Erica Balfour, Rachel Ardagh and Barry Lee (from the Mindfulness & Compassion Centre)
Dates: Thursday evenings (17th October 2024 – 14th November 2024)
Time 6.30 pm – 8.30 pm
About the course:
- Establish a personal practice (30 day mindfulness & compassion challenge).
- Experience a variety of different mindfulness and compassion practices, drawing from a range of evidence based mindfulness and compassion programmes (MBSR, MBCT, MSC, MBCL, MBRP and more).
- Learn how mindfulness and compassion can support us as therapists, sustain us in our work and help mitigate against secondary traumatic stress, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue
- Learn how to skilfully bring elements of trauma informed mindfulness and compassion into your work with clients.
- Learn a variety of simple practices, tools and models that can be helpful in one to one work with clients.
- Learn some of the “dos and don’ts” of using mindfulness to help clients ground.
- Learn the importance of language when guiding others in mindfulness practices.
- How embodying mindfulness and compassion can facilitate deeper work and healing in our clients.
- Learn how to adapt mindfulness for neurodiverse clients (emphasis on autism and ADHD).
- Learn about the types of clinical situations, when mindfulness is not helpful and may cause harm.
CPD Hours: 10 Hours Awarded
For further information - https://www.mindfulness.ie/mindfulness-compassion-for-mental-health-professionals
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