It is now well established across affective neuroscience that most mental health disorders share a reduced ability to perceive the subtle bodily sensations from which emotions emerge. When these early signals go undetected, emotion regulation weakens and reactivity rises. Since interoception operates upstream of cognition, not feeling body sensations makes change harder and relapse more likely.
To help you address this challenge with your clients, Dr. Bruno Cayoun, a clinical and research psychologist, has developed an approach that integrates contemporary Western psychology and neuroscience with over 2,500 years of Buddhist phenomenological psychology, specifically the systematic body-scanning practice of the Burmese Vipassana tradition. It is called Mindfulness-Integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT).
Where most mindfulness-based therapies rely on open-monitoring attention, MiCBT directly trains the interoceptive capacity at the heart of emotional regulation.
The course will teach you how to deliver it across a full range of clinical presentations. It is structured around MiCBT's four stages: Personal (attention and emotion regulation), Exposure (addressing avoidance), Interpersonal (relational effectiveness), and Empathic (compassion and ethics).
Over ten weeks, you will develop competency in applying the Co-Emergence Model of Reinforcement — a neurophenomenological framework that describes psychological distress as a craving for pleasant body sensations and an aversion to unpleasant ones, both co-arising with unhelpful thoughts.
You will learn evidence-based practices including progressive muscle relaxation, mindfulness of breath, body scanning in the vipassana tradition, advanced scanning methods, mindfulness-based exposure techniques, equanimity training, mindfulness-based interpersonal communication skills, and compassion meditation to help prevent relapse.
The course combines theoretical understanding of MiCBT's mechanisms with practical application, so that you can deliver this integrated approach across a wide range of disorders, including generalised and phobic anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, chronic pain, and emotion dysregulation.
Special emphasis is placed on the critical role of daily mindfulness practice as the foundation for rapid and lasting therapeutic change, maintained by the resulting neuroplasticity, and on understanding how to motivate client commitment through Socratic dialogue and cognitive reappraisal.
By course completion, you will be able to assess client suitability for MiCBT, structure and deliver all four stages of the program, manage common implementation challenges, and integrate MiCBT principles into their clinical practice. Audio guides for mindfulness practices are provided.
To help you address this challenge with your clients, Dr. Bruno Cayoun, a clinical and research psychologist, has developed an approach that integrates contemporary Western psychology and neuroscience with over 2,500 years of Buddhist phenomenological psychology, specifically the systematic body-scanning practice of the Burmese Vipassana tradition. It is called Mindfulness-Integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT).
Where most mindfulness-based therapies rely on open-monitoring attention, MiCBT directly trains the interoceptive capacity at the heart of emotional regulation.
The course will teach you how to deliver it across a full range of clinical presentations. It is structured around MiCBT's four stages: Personal (attention and emotion regulation), Exposure (addressing avoidance), Interpersonal (relational effectiveness), and Empathic (compassion and ethics).
Over ten weeks, you will develop competency in applying the Co-Emergence Model of Reinforcement — a neurophenomenological framework that describes psychological distress as a craving for pleasant body sensations and an aversion to unpleasant ones, both co-arising with unhelpful thoughts.
You will learn evidence-based practices including progressive muscle relaxation, mindfulness of breath, body scanning in the vipassana tradition, advanced scanning methods, mindfulness-based exposure techniques, equanimity training, mindfulness-based interpersonal communication skills, and compassion meditation to help prevent relapse.
The course combines theoretical understanding of MiCBT's mechanisms with practical application, so that you can deliver this integrated approach across a wide range of disorders, including generalised and phobic anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD, chronic pain, and emotion dysregulation.
Special emphasis is placed on the critical role of daily mindfulness practice as the foundation for rapid and lasting therapeutic change, maintained by the resulting neuroplasticity, and on understanding how to motivate client commitment through Socratic dialogue and cognitive reappraisal.
By course completion, you will be able to assess client suitability for MiCBT, structure and deliver all four stages of the program, manage common implementation challenges, and integrate MiCBT principles into their clinical practice. Audio guides for mindfulness practices are provided.
