Mindfulness & Depression Class (starts 8/22): Openings still available
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Marty Cooper
Aug 9, 2010, 12:10:20 AM8/9/10
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A 6 week Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression (for info about MBCT, see here) class will begin Sunday, August 22nd, and run 6 consecutive weeks through September 26th. We will meet 9-11:30am on Sunday mornings, in the Inner Richmond district of San Francisco.
MBCT (derived from Jon Kabat-Zinn's work with those suffering from chronic pain) is a way of applying mindfulness practice to depression, specifically to address the painful chronic quality of depression. (Research has shown that students who complete the course have about a 50% decreased chance of cycling into another episode of depression.) It addresses the tendency for depressed people to develop a stance or attitude towards depression (of hostility and fear) that actually makes the mood much more entrenched and intense.
So what MBCT teaches to students are skills in mindfulness meditation and "thought noticing" techniques that fundamentally point to a shift in how one relates to the experience of depression. And to support this shift, MBCT also teaches students how to notice and respect those places and experiences that are typically overwhelming, to cultivate, not resignation, but a skillful engagement with depression, rather than a compulsive mode of struggle.
What students almost universally report after the class is the surprising realization that by fighting their experience less, there is actually less suffering and, ironically, more skillful control. So in each class--which are a mix of mindfulness practice, review and problems-solving of the practice, and support from and for the group--the focus is on learning and experience, as practice, this very insight.
The fee for the class is $275 plus $35 materials (book and CD).
Contact Marty Cooper at (415) 835-2162, or mb...@mbctsf.com for more information or to register.
MBCT (derived from Jon Kabat-Zinn's work with those suffering from chronic pain) is a way of applying mindfulness practice to depression, specifically to address the painful chronic quality of depression. (Research has shown that students who complete the course have about a 50% decreased chance of cycling into another episode of depression.) It addresses the tendency for depressed people to develop a stance or attitude towards depression (of hostility and fear) that actually makes the mood much more entrenched and intense.
So what MBCT teaches to students are skills in mindfulness meditation and "thought noticing" techniques that fundamentally point to a shift in how one relates to the experience of depression. And to support this shift, MBCT also teaches students how to notice and respect those places and experiences that are typically overwhelming, to cultivate, not resignation, but a skillful engagement with depression, rather than a compulsive mode of struggle.
What students almost universally report after the class is the surprising realization that by fighting their experience less, there is actually less suffering and, ironically, more skillful control. So in each class--which are a mix of mindfulness practice, review and problems-solving of the practice, and support from and for the group--the focus is on learning and experience, as practice, this very insight.
The fee for the class is $275 plus $35 materials (book and CD).
Contact Marty Cooper at (415) 835-2162, or mb...@mbctsf.com for more information or to register.
(Visit www.mbctsf.com for more information on MBCT and this class. And if you would like to sign up for email announcements of future MBCT classes/events, please click here.)
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