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Introduction:

Mindfulness practice is highly helpful to counsellors in developing therapeutic qualities such as presence,compassion, acceptance, equanimity, and avoiding burnout. Mindfulness-based interventions also help our clients to become experts on their own lives and unfold their wisdom in coping with stress and difficulties.

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Aims:

This training programme is designed to enable you to incorporate mindfulness into your counselling practice and particularly in helping clients with depression or anxiety problems.

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Training Format:

Through active participation in mindfulness practices, case study, role play, group sharing and discussion.

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Content︰

 

Day 1: Becoming a Mindful Counsellor

(Learn the basics of Mindful Counselling and develop the core mindfulness skills of focused attention, openness, allowing, lovingkindness, self-compassion, and equanimity.)

 

Topics:

1. Bringing Mindfulness into the Counselling Room
2. Cultivating Mindfulness in the Therapeutic Relationship
3. Bringing Loving-Kindness and Compassion to Practice

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Day 2: Integrating Mindfulness into Counselling Practices

Aims:

(Conceptual learning, Case studies, skills demonstration and skills practice through role-playing.)

 

Topics:

1. The Mindfulness Paradigm of Anxiety/ Depression
2. Mindfulness-based approach to Anxiety/Depression treatment
3. Mindfulness Practices for clients with anxiety/depression
4. Introducing mindfulness practices to clients

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Target︰Suitable for helping professionals. Preferences will be given to people who have attended MBCT /MBSR 8 week training courses or acquired mindfulness training, and have regular mindfulness practices.

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​Language︰Mainly Cantonese supplemented by English.

 

Certificate︰Participants with 80% or above attendance would be granted certificates.

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Trainer︰

Mrs Winnie LEE 李劉穎瑩女士

Senior Counselling and Training Consultant

Registered Counselling Psychologist & Associate Fellow, HKPS

Registered Educational Psychologist, HCPC UK

Approved Supervisor, ACA and HKPCA

Trainer in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

Certificate in Emotion-Focused Therapy

 

Mrs Winnie Lee has over 30 years’ experience working in the education and counselling field. She started her career as a Social Worker in the Family Services of the Social Welfare Department in HK, then she was employed as a Child and Educational Psychologist in Australia for 9 years before working as a Counselling Psychologist in a local university for over 20 years. She now works privately as a counselling psychologist and a part-time lecturer cum clinical supervisor in local universities.

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With her many professional qualifications and extensive work experiences, Mrs Lee is well experienced in counselling cases of different nature including emotional problems, stress and anxiety, parenting, couple/family relationships, children with behavioural and emotional difficulties, mental health issues and other personal issues. She is knowledgeable in conducting a wide range of psychological assessments and training programmes for counsellors, teachers and parents.

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