Schedule and Registration

Note: CFM requires a minimum of 10 registrants per program. Classes with fewer than 10 registrants will be cancelled and provided a refund. Please be aware of this when making arrangements to attend this program.

Course Description

Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behavior Therapy (MiCBT) is a sophisticated integration of mindfulness training and cognitive-behavioral science. Grounded in evidence-based principles, MiCBT offers a four-stage, transdiagnostic treatment model that can be applied across a wide range of mental health conditions and client populations. Drawing from the Burmese Vipassana tradition of Ledi Sayadaw and U Ba Khin, MiCBT blends traditional mindfulness practices with the rigor of behavioral and cognitive methods.

This one-day workshop provides an engaging overview of the theoretical framework that underpins MiCBT. Participants will deepen their understanding of operant conditioning and explore the neuro-behavioral mechanisms that explain how mindfulness and CBT complement one another.

Join an international community of clinicians in this learning opportunity to discover how MiCBT can enrich both your clinical work and your personal mindfulness practice—and to consider whether further training in this empirically validated approach may be right for you.

Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Describe recent theoretical and empirical findings on mindfulness practice and its clinical effects.
• Identify the neurophenomenological foundations that support behavior maintenance and change.
• Explain strategies for effectively engaging clients in the MiCBT treatment plan.
• Apply MiCBT methods to strengthen attention and emotion regulation.
• Utilize MiCBT techniques for behavioral regulation and reducing avoidance patterns.
• Demonstrate how to integrate MiCBT practices to enhance interpersonal regulation and resolve conflict.
• Implement MiCBT strategies for transpersonal regulation and relapse prevention in clinical context.

Teaching Approach

The experiential workshop will involve learning material through various modalities, including:

• Guided mindfulness meditation practices as taught in MiCBT
• Live demonstration of delivery of Diary of Reactive Habits
• Guided Mindfulness Interoceptive Exposure Task and Experiential Ownership
• Video demonstrations of MiCBT skills with a client during real-life therapy sessions
• Live Question and Answer through chat

What’s Included  

• Access to online pre-workshop content 
• 14 days access to the recorded workshop 
• Membership to the North American Chapter of the MiCBT Institute 

Prerequisites

For the introductory workshop, no prior knowledge of mindfulness is assumed, but basic skills in cognitive and behavioral techniques are helpful. The workshop is geared toward professionals with a foundational understanding of the concepts, as the workshop is delivered at a higher psychological level.

Note that attending the workshop is NOT a prerequisite for registration in the Foundation Course (which is the first step in training in MiCBT delivery). Although the Foundation Course is primarily experiential, and clinicians are guided through the self-implementation of MiCBT, all material covered in the workshop is presented and discussed in the Foundation course.

As MiCBT is a mental health treatment specifically designed to address acute and chronic mental health conditions, professional mental health qualifications or enrollment in a professional training program is required for enrollment in the Foundation Course.

Follow this link to learn more about MiCBT.

Lead Trainers

Andrea Grabovac, M.D., FRCPC Consultant Psychiatrist Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry Co-Director, North American Chapter, MiCBT Institute Andrea Grabovac, MD, FRCPC is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia. Her psychiatric practice focuses on inpatient psychiatry at Vancouver Hospital and outpatient psycho-oncology at the BC Cancer Agency.

Alia Offman, Ph.D., C.Psych Co-Director, North American Chapter, MiCBT Institute Registered Psychologist and Contract Instructor, Carleton University Dr. Alia Offman, C. Psych is a registered psychologist in Ottawa, providing counselling and professional training services using MiCBT. She is a contract instructor at Carleton University, a trainer at the MiCBT Institute and teaches mindfulness skills to grade school students as a volunteer with the Mindful School Program.

Continuing Education Credit

Continuing Education credits for participation in this program are available for a $30 fee.

Psychologists: This program is sponsored by UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This course offers 6.0 CE credit.

The MiCBT Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The MiCBT Institute maintains responsibility for the program. This course offers 6.0 CE credit.

California licensed MFTs, LPCCs, LEPs, LCSWs: This activity is an approved continuing education program by the American Psychological Association. CE credit may be applied to your license renewal through the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. For those licensed outside California, please check with your local licensing board to determine if CE credit is accepted.

Nurses: UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP16351, for 7.0 contact hours.

Disclosure

It is the policy of the University of California, San Diego Center for Mindfulness to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor. All persons involved in the selection, development, and presentation of content are required to disclose any real or apparent conflicts of interest. All conflicts of interest will be resolved prior to an educational activity being delivered to learners through one of the following mechanisms: 1) altering the financial relationship with the commercial interest, 2) altering the individual’s control over CE content about the products or services of the commercial interest, and/or 3) validating the activity content through independent peer review.

Tentative Schedule (all times are in Pacific Time)

9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Morning Session: 9 a.m. -12 Noon
Lunch Break: 12 Noon - 1 p.m.
Afternoon Session: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

General Registration: $195 ($175 early-bird rate available for those who pay 30 days in advance)

UC San Diego Employee/Staff: $175 ($150 early-bird rate available for those who pay 30 days in advance). You must give a UC San Diego email address.

Cancellation Policy

A refund (minus your $50 non-refundable/non-transferable deposit) will be made for cancellations submitted in writing up to 14 days prior to the event start date by emailing mindfulness@health.ucsd.edu. No refunds will be allowed within 13 days of the event start date.

Please be aware that the registration fee, deposits, and funds are non-transferable to other programs.

In the unlikely event that the course is cancelled, UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness is responsible only for a full refund of the registration fee. In regards to the In-Person Programs, the center is not responsible for any refunds to transportation, hotel accommodations, or any miscellaneous expenses.

The refunds are processed in the same method as the payments were submitted (unless past 180 days).

Note: CFM requires a minimum of 10 registrants per program. Classes with fewer than 10 registrants will be cancelled and provided a refund. Please be aware of this when making arrangements to attend this program.