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MINDFULNESS-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY for CANCER (MBCT-Ca)

MINDFULNESS-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY for CANCER (MBCT-Ca). May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these deepening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you as no one ever has,

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MINDFULNESS-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY for CANCER (MBCT-Ca)

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  1. MINDFULNESS-BASED COGNITIVE THERAPY for CANCER (MBCT-Ca)

  2. May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children. Then in these swelling and ebbing currents, these deepening tides moving out, returning, I will sing you as no one ever has, streaming through widening channels into the open sea. Rilke’s Book of Hours Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

  3. MBCT-Ca basics • 3 times a year at Bangor Alaw Unit since 2001 • Orientation and Assessment – 1 hour • 8 classes x 2 ½ hours a week. • 30 minutes home practice CD a day + new short practice every week. • 8-12 people in each group • A practice day after 6th class • Follow up class a month after end of the course • Open drop in monthly sessions • Patients of all diagnoses attend AFTER end of treatment

  4. The Circle of Suffering

  5. A Cognitive Model of Cancer Distress Moorey, S,. & Greer, S., (2002) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for People with Cancer. Oxford: OUP

  6. The Circle of Practice

  7. 8 weekly themes • Automatic Pilot • Dealing with Barriers • Befriending the Breath and the Body in Movement • Learning to Respond • Gently Being with the Difficult • Thoughts are not Facts > Day of Practice • Learning to Take Care of Myself • Going Beyond Fear Follow Up Class and monthly drop in classes

  8. The Practices FORMAL PRACTICES (30 minutes with CDs) • Body Scan • Mindful Movement • Sitting Practice SHORT AND EVERYDAY PRACTICES • Breathing Spaces • Standing in Mountain • The Physical Barometer • Coming to the Breath with Kindness • Thread Practices – and more

  9. The Four Movements Intention Coming Back Turning Towards the Difficult Kindness

  10. www.thoughtonathread.co.uk for thread practices • www.trishbartley.co.uk

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