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MiCBT Institute

Evidence-based MiCBT training for individuals and mental health professionals worldwide.

Helping people cultivate inner calm, confidence, and better relationships. The MiCBT Institute is a leading provider of training and professional development services in Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (MiCBT) to the mental health industry in Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. The aim of the Institute is to develop, teach and apply the science of Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT). The comprehensive training taught by the Institute advances clinicians to a high level of skill in the use of MiCBT in their professional area. The MiCBT Institute supports and supervises therapists’ training and provides opportunities for continuing professional development and guidance. The Institute also offers short and comprehensive professional training in MiCBT for Service Providers.

02/04/2026

Your mind will wander during meditation.

This is not a failure.

It is the practice.

The moment you notice that your mind has wandered — that moment of noticing — is itself an act of mindfulness. You have stepped back from the content of the thought and observed it.

And then you return. Without judgment. Without frustration.

Every return is a small strengthening of the capacity that MiCBT is training — the capacity to observe experience without being absorbed by it.

MiCBT for Well-being and Personal Growth, 2nd Edition. -> store.mindfulness.net.au

01/04/2026

Here is something that surprises a lot of people.

Anxiety is not primarily a thinking problem.

It is a body problem.

When we feel anxious, we experience it as worry — as thoughts spiralling. But what is driving those thoughts is something more immediate: a physical sensation. A tightness in the chest. A contraction in the stomach. A subtle, pervasive sense of unease in the body.

CBT works with thoughts. That is valuable. But if you do not also address the body sensations generating those thoughts — the cycle continues.

MiCBT trains you to work at both levels simultaneously.

That is why it works when other approaches have not.

MiCBT for Wellbeing and Personal Growth - store.mindfulness.net.au

27/03/2026

For the mental health professionals in this community —

The MiCBT for Well-being and Personal Growth book is not just for self-help readers.

It works powerfully as a between-session resource for clients undertaking the MiCBT programme. Rather than relying on session summaries alone, clients have a complete, week-by-week guide — with rationale, exercises, and audio-guided practices — to support their work between appointments.

The 2nd Edition also addresses one of the most common clinical concerns: what to do when mindfulness practice activates difficult memories. The new trauma-aware guidance gives practitioners clear, evidence-based protocols for these situations.

Get the book: store.mindfulness.net.au

26/03/2026

She had lived with anxiety since childhood.

Constant worry. Chronic fatigue. A crippling fear of being harmed at night — a remnant of a strict upbringing she thought she had left behind long ago.

After completing the MiCBT programme, she wrote:

"The old negative, worrying, anxious thoughts no longer have control of my mind. Where once I would have become angry, now I laugh. There are often times when my whole being is suffused with a sense of peace and joy that would have been unimaginable two years ago."

She was 12 years free of those symptoms when this letter was written.

This kind of change is possible. It requires a structured, evidence-based path — not just insight or willpower.

That is what this book provides.

MiCBT for Wellbeing and Personal Growth - 2nd Ed.
store.mindfulness.net.au

24/03/2026

MiCBT is not a new idea with a new name.

The programme was first developed in 2001. Every skill has been tested, refined, and retested — in clinical settings, across cultures, across a wide range of presenting difficulties.

The results have been consistent:— Significant reductions in depression, anxiety, and stress
— Improved emotional regulation and self-confidence
— Better interpersonal functioning and relationship satisfaction
— Benefits that persist well beyond the end of the programme

The 2nd Edition incorporates this latest research alongside the deepest, most practical version of the programme ever published.

store.mindfulness.net.au

23/03/2026

Tom had lived with trauma his whole life.
By the end of the MiCBT programme, this is what he said:
"I still have intrusive thoughts but I let them go straight away. I am enjoying the company of my wife so much more. I am equanimous and relaxed, and at peace with the world."
What changed? Not his circumstances.
His relationship to his own inner experience.
That is what this programme trains. Not positive thinking. Not relaxation. A genuine shift in how you relate to what is happening inside you.
The 2nd Edition of MiCBT for Well-being and Personal Growth is now available. If you or someone you know is ready to make that shift, the book is available here: store.mindfulness.net.au

20/03/2026

Most programmes stop at managing your own emotions.

MiCBT goes further.

In Stage 3, you learn not to react to other people's reactivity.

When someone is angry, anxious, or critical — your default response is shaped by years of habit. In Stage 3, you begin to interrupt that habit. You learn to stay grounded in your own experience, while still being genuinely present with others.

In Stage 4, you extend this further — toward compassion. For others, and for yourself.

Not as a concept. As a practised skill.

The 2nd Edition of MiCBT for Well-being and Personal Growth. store.mindfulness.net.au

18/03/2026

Stage 2 — Exposure Stage
Here is something most people find surprising about MiCBT.

Stage 2 is not about relaxation.

It is about gently facing the situations you have been avoiding.

Avoidance makes sense in the short term — it reduces anxiety immediately. But over time, it shrinks your world. It reinforces the belief that you cannot cope.

In Stage 2, you use the mindfulness skills you have been building to face avoided situations — not to push through them, but to move through them with equanimity.

The result: not just less anxiety. A quiet, growing confidence that you can handle what comes.

16/03/2026

Week 1 of MiCBT begins with something deceptively simple.

You learn to notice your body.

Not to relax it. Not to fix it. Just to notice — with as little judgment as possible.

This sounds straightforward. But for most people, it is the first time they have ever paid deliberate, sustained attention to what is actually happening inside them, moment to moment.

From this foundation, everything else in the programme is built.

Emotional regulation. Confidence. Better relationships. Compassion for yourself and others.

It all starts with learning to notice.

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15/03/2026

Most mindfulness books give you ideas.
This one gives you a map.

The MiCBT programme has 4 stages:

Stage 1 — Personal (4 weeks): Learn to notice your inner world without being swept away by it.

Stage 2 — Exposure (2 weeks): Gently face what you have been avoiding, with your new skills as support.

Stage 3 — Interpersonal (2 weeks): Stop reacting to other people's reactivity. Watch your relationships shift.

Stage 4 — Compassion (2 weeks): Extend what you have learned outward — to others, and back to yourself.

10 weeks. One chapter at a time.

Get the book: store.mindfulness.net.au

12/03/2026

— You have tried mindfulness before but want something more structured and clinically grounded
— You feel calmer in meditation but the anxiety or reactivity returns the moment life gets hard
— You know what you should do, but cannot change your emotional reactions in the moment
— You want to improve your relationships but keep falling into the same patterns
— You are a mental health professional wanting a proven protocol to use with clients

MiCBT for Well-being and Personal Growth, 2nd Edition.
10 weeks. Evidence-based. Available now.

Get the book: store.mindfulness.net.au

10/03/2026

This is the opening line of the new edition.

It is a book for people who sense that something more is possible — more calm, more confidence, more genuine connection — but have not yet found a path that actually works.

Not another set of tips. A structured, 10-week programme. One week at a time.

Get the book: store.mindfulness.net.au

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