Mindfulness
SERVICE
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Mindfulness SERVICE
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
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In association with
Jeanette Shennan
mindfulnesswaikato@gmail.com or 022 086 4670
Jeannette is a clinical psychologist with many years experience in assisting people to manage physical health problems including chronic pain and cancer. She enjoys bringing the benefits of mindfulness to this work, and to help others with day-to-day stress and well-being.
Philippa Thomas
matariki67@hotmail.com or 021 036 8922
Philippa Thomas is a clinical psychologist with many years experience working with people to manage stress, anxiety and low mood, as well as physical health and age-related concerns. She has a strong interest in healthy and mindful ageing!
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
MBSR programmes were developed more than thirty years ago by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre. They were designed to help people to live more easily with chronic physical health conditions and stress. They did this by teaching mindfulness meditation and enabling people to choose how to respond, rather than automatically reacting, in stressful situations. Extensive research has demonstrated that MBSR programmes are very effective in encouraging participants to learn these new skills.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
MBSR programmes were developed more than thirty years ago by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn and his colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre. They were designed to help people to live more easily with chronic physical health conditions and stress. They did this by teaching mindfulness meditation and enabling people to choose how to respond, rather than automatically reacting, in stressful situations. Extensive research has demonstrated that MBSR programmes are very effective in encouraging participants to learn these new skills.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
MBCT programmes were developed later by Drs John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Mark Williams, to combine the best of MBSR mindfulness meditation practices with cognitive behaviour therapy principles and practice. Like MBSR, they are evidence-based programmes and research has demonstrated that they are especially helpful for people who have had recurrent episodes of depression. MBCT is designed to target the ruminative thinking styles which often fuel low mood; it does so very effectively.