Manchester BABCP conference: disagreeing with Jamie Pennebaker - writing can be used with positive experiences too (ninth post)
Originally added on Tue, 24/08/2010 - 04:41Last updated on Fri, 03/09/2010 - 04:45
This is still a blog post in the making. Come back in a few days and hopefully I'll have said something useful here!
Manchester BABCP conference: disagreeing with Jamie Pennebaker - writing can help past, present & future concerns (eighth post)
Originally added on Mon, 23/08/2010 - 20:30Last updated on Wed, 01/09/2010 - 06:17
Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, ninth session
Originally added on Tue, 27/07/2010 - 05:49Last updated on Wed, 04/08/2010 - 06:01
Yesterday was the ninth evening of this "Life skills" training. I wrote about the eighth session last week. The sequence of regular weekly classes now moves on to increasing gaps between sessions - so it's three weeks until the tenth, a further five weeks until the eleventh, and then an additional eleven weeks until the final twelfth session. My hope is that we will be able to arrange occasional follow-up meetings even after that.
Manchester BABCP conference: positive psychology and depression (third post)
Originally added on Fri, 23/07/2010 - 08:30Last updated on Thu, 05/08/2010 - 05:40
The second day of the annual BABCP conference in Manchester started bright and early. I wrote a bit in my room - I've already written a couple of posts about the first day of the conference - before heading down for an early breakfast. Breakfast was good - much better than yesterday's disappointing packed lunch. Social too, chatting to a couple of other "early birds" about the conference and CBT more generally. Back to my student room - the whole conference is at the main Manchester university. Then a good difficulty to have - trying to decide between two interesting options - either Nick Tarrier running a "skills class" on "Broad Minded Affective Coping (BMAC): a new and positive technique for the CBT tool box" or a symposium with the initially unappetizing title "Understanding anhe
Manchester BABCP conference: Emily Holmes & imagery (second post)
Originally added on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 05:28Last updated on Sat, 21/08/2010 - 06:52
Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, eighth session
Originally added on Tue, 20/07/2010 - 05:39Last updated on Wed, 04/08/2010 - 05:54
Life skills for stress, health & wellbeing, seventh session
Originally added on Tue, 13/07/2010 - 05:10Last updated on Tue, 20/07/2010 - 04:42
Developing a training course: life skills for stress, health & wellbeing
Originally added on Fri, 19/02/2010 - 06:48Last updated on Wed, 31/03/2010 - 15:52
Last Spring, I went walking and camping in Glen Affric. Amongst other things, being away on my own in the hills gave me a chance to think creatively. Once I was back I wrote a blog post about developing a next generation stress management course. I said "I've known for some time that I wanted to "upgrade" the stress management/relaxation skills course that I've been teaching for many years. I find the emerging research on mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) exciting and encouraging ...
NICE guidance on promoting mental wellbeing at work
Originally added on Thu, 17/12/2009 - 05:27Last updated on Sun, 20/12/2009 - 08:08
Berlin weekend: approaches to happiness
Originally added on Sat, 12/12/2009 - 05:18Last updated on Tue, 15/12/2009 - 06:36
Berlin, Saturday morning. We flew in from Edinburgh pretty early yesterday. Direct flight. Easy. Guilt over air travel a little allayed by buying carbon offsets through ClimateCare. We're staying in a Miniloft, one of the really nice set of self-catering apartments designed by Matthew Griffin & Brita Jurgens, an architect couple whose practice is up at the top of the building.