What is Mindfulness? What is MBCT?
Three brilliant psychologists were looking for a way to prevent depression relapse when they came across Marsha Linehan, creator of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). She suggested they look into Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). They visited the Center for Mindfulness at the UMass Medical School, sat in on some MBSR courses, and realized this was just the structure they needed.
Together they figured out what elements of Cognitive Science were needed and set up trials. The results were astounding: The initial 3-site research showed a 50% reduction in depression relapse a full year after the end of the 8-week workshop.
