Personal directions in mindfulness teaching: an overview
27th May 2012
I have been meditating regularly for over forty years and teaching for over thirty. I think the recent surge of interest and research on mindfulness is hugely exciting. I remember in 1998 hearing John Teasdale give a ground-breaking lecture on "Mindfulness training in treatment and prevention" at the British Association …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD - imagined "reliving" (6th post)
25th May 2012
(A printable copy of this blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file) This is the sixth post about this workshop on CBT memory-focused treatment for adults with PTSD. Earlier posts have looked at the workshop overall, discussed treatment structure, explored application for "non-PTSD …
Purpose in life: reduces dementia risk, increases life expectancy, treats depression and builds wellbeing
23rd May 2012
I was struck by a paper published this month in the journal Archives of General Psychiatry - "Effect of purpose in life on the relation between Alzheimer disease pathologic changes on cognitive function in advanced age". The authors wrote "In recent years, systematic examination has shown that purpose in life …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group: last morning and reflection overall
21st May 2012
And now it's several days after the four days sixteen of us spent together at the old converted watermill in Cumbria that we've been visiting for over twenty years. I've already written about the final full day and the last evening singing together under the stars. I think these groups …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group: third full day - boundary issues, friendships and singing round a bonfire under the stars
13th May 2012
And it's the final early morning of this four day residential group. I wrote yesterday about sunshine along the wall outside - and it's here again today, bright & fresh. Sunday morning. I can be a very organized person - lovely though to let my hair down at times here …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group: second full day - couple's work, interpersonal challenge, fathers and banquets
12th May 2012
The start of the third full day here. In yesterday's post I wrote about the first full day and today I'll write about our second full day together. We've had so much rain over the last couple of days, it's a blessing to see the bright early sunlight splashed along …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group: first full day - feeling our way in, revisiting the Skye experience and dancing
11th May 2012
Still before breakfast - at the start of the second full day now. Yesterday I wrote about "arriving". The noise of the mill stream just outside provides a constant back drop while we're here. When we arrived on Wednesday evening it was flowing so quietly, the water level almost as …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group: first morning - "arriving"
10th May 2012
First morning of the "Mixed Group". We have been meeting like this - in an old converted watermill in Cumbria - nearly every year since the start of the 90's. This year's residential is a bit different. For many it's a 20 year reunion (or thereabouts). Sixteen old friends! Sounds …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD - other applications (5th post)
8th May 2012
Last month I wrote a series of four blog posts about a CBT workshop on memory-focused for adults with PTSD (and a couple of posts about a personal experience of trauma). The third of these posts discussed how this kind of memory-focused approach could also be helpful for other types …
Recent research: articles from April journals
7th May 2012
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 17,700 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …