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    Mindfulness and Cancer

    Specialist Zoom Online Teacher Training

Mindfulness and Cancer

Mindfulness and Cancer is being offered to people with cancer in clinical settings, charity support groups, and many other contexts in the UK and abroad. The Mindfulness and Cancer programme was developed over many years in a Welsh oncology centre by Trish Bartley and supported by John Teasdale. MBCT for Cancer (a teacher’s handbook) was published in 2012 (Bartley, 2012).

Online Teacher Training in Mindfulness and Cancer

We are very pleased to offer this specialist training that explores the values, practice and approach of Mindfulness and Cancer. The training will enable mindfulness-based teachers to develop the skills, inspiration and understanding to work safely in the field of mindfulness and cancer – and to connect with others working in psycho-oncology, cancer support and palliative care, who are interested in what mindfulness might offer.

Working with ZOOM

We will work together on zoom platform, so it is important for you to have good enough internet and laptop / computer to use to enable you to access the online sessions. An advantage of this online training is being able to offer a foundation that will help when teaching people with cancer online.

Traning Options

We have a strong commitment to make this training relevant and affordable - so we have designed a format that we hope will be accessible to everyone, wherever you come from. This will open up an exciting possibility of building a truly international community of mindfulness teachers involved in work with people with cancer.

Route A

$30 a month (year subscription)
  • Whole online course (70+ video's)
  • Monthly zoom meetings with Trish
  • Full access to secure community platform
  • Practice groups offered


Opening up in soon
Prices are excluding local VAT

Route B

$50 a month (year subscription)
  • Whole online course (70+ video's)
  • Mothly zoom meetings with Trish or Christina
  • Full access to secure community platform
  • Practice groups offered

+ Mentoring in groups max 10 facilitated by a Mindfulness for Cancer experienced trainer. 


Starting in April 2022
Prices are excluding local VAT

Options

4 days online specialist teacher training in Mindfulness and Cancer can be added to Route A or Route B. This will be taught by Trish Bartley and Christina Shennan, and will be delivered over 8 half days. Dates to be announced. Extra cost $750

After your training

Community membership is possible for $5 a month so that you can stay connected with your fellow professionals. This also enables you to retain access to the online library, Which will have added new practices and learning materials constantly added. This community membership is available for alumni of route A or route B and for professionals who followed a mindfulness and cancer professional training in the past.

Add on Four Day Training

This eight half day online specialist teacher training is for mindfulness-based teachers currently working or interested in working with people with cancer. We will explore the values, practice and approach of Mindfulness and Cancer.

Opening October 2021

  • Orientation Session will be anounced soon (vital to attend).
  • The online training will be available soon.
  • The dates for the online zoom webinars will be anounced soon.

Trish Bartley

Trish Bartley has taught mindfulness to people with cancer since 2001. She developed MBCT and Cancer (MBCT-Ca), supported by John Teasdale and Mark Williams (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer, 2012). She continues to teach MBCT-Ca to clinical groups and one to one to those with advanced illness. She has also written Mindfulness, A Kindly Approach for People with Cancer, (2017) intended for people at any stage of their illness.
Trish works closely with Christina Shennan, offering specialist teacher training and development in MBCT for Cancer in the UK, online with See True Mindfulness, and further afield. They trained mindfulness teachers in Hong Kong in 2019 and in Milan in 2018.

Trish’s background is in community development. She is a member of the core training team at Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University / The Mindfulness Network. She has worked for See True since 2010 and regularly trains mindfulness teachers abroad and supports retreats in the UK, Europe and South Africa.

Trish has a particular interest in the role of the group in Mindfulness-based Programs and trainings. She recently co-wrote The Inside Out Group Model: Teaching Groups in Mindfulness-based Programs (Mindfulness, 2019) and is in the process of writing a book Teaching Mindfulness-based Groups, which will be published in 2021.

Christina Shennan

Christina Shennan is an experienced psychotherapist and mindfulness-based teacher in Psychological Services in the UK’s National Health Service. She has worked with people with cancer, as a psychotherapist and as a mindfulness-based teacher in hospice and in day care settings for nearly 20 years.

She has been teaching Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer (MBCT-Ca) to cancer patients, their families and carers since 2008 (including work with young people with cancer). With Trish Bartley, Christina has developed a training programme for MBCT-Ca teachers in Europe, the UK and further afield, which has been delivered over many years.

Christina is a member of the core training team at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University / The Mindfulness Network – and leads a teacher training module on the CMRP, Bangor University, Masters in Mindfulness Programme

Programme

Over the four days we will explore the intention, approach and new/different aspects of the eight-week Mindfulness for Cancer programme, paying particular attention to:

• ways of adapting the core practices as they are guided for cancer participants
• the brief practices and new exercises and processes that have been created within Mindfulness for Cancer
• ways that we can emphasise and work with kindness and self compassion within the intervention
• understanding the cognitive model that underpins Mindfulness for Cancer – and the place of the four practice movements of Intention; Coming Back; Turning Towards; and Kindness
• exploring the teaching implications of working with this population and how we can support ourselves as teachers.

The training will use a variety of (mainly experiential) processes including:

• practice
• dialogue and inquiry in both peer groups and the large group
• discussion and reflection in small and large groups
• presentation

We will work together on zoom platform, so it is important for you to have good enough internet and laptop / computer to use to enable you to access the online training.
One of the advantages of this online training is being able to offer a foundation that will help when teaching people with cancer online.

Participants must commit to the entire training. Unless there are exceptional circumstances, we are unable to negotiate late arrivals or early leaving.

We are Brief Mindfulness

Brief Mindfulness is a cooperation between SeeTrue Online and Trish Bartley. SeeTrue is situated in the Netherlands and will be hosting the events of Brief Mindfulness and mindfulnessandcancer.com.

Contact

Brief Mindfulness can be contacted through SeeTrue Online.

SeeTrue Online
Duitsepoort 13 A in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Mail: info (at) seetrue.com
Phone: +31 43 30 200 75