Sessions are available face to face, via video calls or phone calls.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT-D) is an 8-week evidence-based mindfulness programme developed in Oxford (UK), initially to help individuals with persistent depression. The programme was found to reduce depressive relapse risks and was subsequently introduced to a wider population experiencing difficult emotions e.g., depression, anxiety.
To provide for the wider population, the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation created a new adaptation: Mindfulness for Life (MBCT-L) which is suitable for the general public, i.e. anyone who wants to learn mindfulness and change the way they relate to life. Incorporating themes of compassion and gratitude, participants learn to savour life amidst challenges.
Hope for Tomorrow currently runs both MBCT-D and MBCT-L.
Why Mindfulness?
Many of us spend a lot of time ruminating about the past, or worrying about the future. Mindfulness helps us pay attention in the present. It also enables us to become more aware of our thoughts, physical sensations and emotions, and develop a different relationship with them.
Through mindfulness/meditation practice, you can thus learn to respond more skilfully to life's challenges by better managing the use of intellectual thinking skills in everyday life without falling into mind traps of overthinking or rumination. As you cultivate attitudes of openness and compassion in the process, you also begin to improve relationships with people, starting with yourself.
What do the MBCT programmes involve?
Both MBCT-D and MBCT-L involve:
- Guided mindfulness meditation practices
- Group discussions that allow participants to share and learn from each other
- Home practices (e.g., Daily practice of mindfulness exercises using provided audio files)
Both programmes are run as an 8-week course. This includes 8 weekly 2-hour sessions @ Hope4Tmr (near Beauty World MRT) and a full-day retreat.
Sessions are conducted in-person, in small group size.
Pre-course phone interview and questionnaire will be required to confirm suitability for the course.