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About LianaFounder and principal MBCT teacher trainer with Mindfulness Centre, Liana (cv summary) teaches and supervises the professional MBCT training at the Mindfulness Centre, teaches at Adelaide University, Lifeflow Meditation Centre and Ashtree Sangha and speaks across Australia. She started the Mindfulness Centre to train professionals in Mindfulness-based approaches believing that all people deserve respectful, highly skilled services from professionals who value the heart in human connection. Professional BackgroundLiana specialises in integrating Clinical and Health Psychology, Relationship Counselling and meditation. A registered psychologist and member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), she draws on an extensive background as a Clinical Psychologist since 1991 in private practice with Adage Psychology and Relationship Therapist, and as a Meditation Teacher with Lifeflow and Ashtree sangha. Guided by contemporary evidence-based research, Liana has incorporated mindfulness meditation into clinical, relationship and leadership contexts since 1998."It never ceases to amaze me the capacity of the human heart to endure, and to seek hope and beauty, clarity and joy" Formal Professional TrainingTrained in clinical and health psychology with a CBT focus at Adelaide and Flinders Universities, then later in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for depression and anxiety, Liana also trained formally in: Couple Therapy at Relationships Australia; Narrative Family Therapy at Dulwich Centre; Group Work at COPE; Neuro-Linguistic Programming with the NLP Centre of SA and Christopher Howard; Outdoor Recreation Leadership at Regency TAFE; and Tai Chi with Master KC Wong.Mindfulness and other meditation trainingLiana has retreated with, taken teachings from or trained with some of the leading teachers in MBCT, MBSR, ACT and Insight meditation
Liana was introduced to formal meditation in 1980 with Transcendental meditation. She loved the peace and sense of expansion. In the early 1990s she sought meditation training with a greater sophistication of understanding about the workings of the human mind and heart, and began her ongoing formal training in two different Buddhist traditions; the Tibetan Buddhist Karma Kagyu tradition and Burmese Vipassana tradition. Vipassana is commonly known as Insight Meditation and forms the basis of all the Mindfulness-based therapeutic models - MBCT, MBSR, ACT and DBT. This dual training gave her a profound understanding of the importance of concentrative meditations for stilling the mind, cultivating calmness, clarity and hope, and of mindfulness meditation for the insight necessary for transforming health and mental health concerns and relationships. She started teaching meditation in the late 90s, and also started incorporating some of Jon Kabat-Zinns practices from his seminal book Full Catastophe living (MBSR) into her therapeutic and coaching work. The greater focus of Lianas clinical work was with depression, trauma, illness and relationships issues, while her coaching work was around leadership. In all of these areas the downward spiralling of emotions, negative rumination and worry is prominent and challenging. When MBCT was developed Liana found it was the perfect vehicle for bringing some difference to these downward spirals of emotions, negative rumination and worry, and combined the rich essence and philosophy of the Eastern meditative traditions with the applied nature of Western Psychology. Liana started reading MBCT literature and research, attending 8 week courses with supervision and then Teacher Development training courses. She continues to attend regular workshops and retreats for ongoing training and supervision in MBCT and in Insight Meditation.
Mindfulness-based teachingLiana began teaching 8 week MBCT courses for her clients. Clinical Masters students would attend and then other professionals asked to attend. Liana shifted her focus to introducing MBCT and other mindfulness-based training to her colleagues and other health and mental health professionals. In 2006 she set up the Mindfulness Centre and in 2008 she was a part of organising and assistant teaching the first national MBCT Teacher Training 5 day retreat in Australia with Melanie Fennel (MBCT) and Melissa Blacker (MBSR). She now brings the gift of MBCT and other mindfulness-based training to organisational contexts and Leadership arenas.Liana has taught or assistant taught with:
Liana: Current DirectionsPassionate about cultivating the art of resonance and wisdom in leadership, Liana brings mindfulness to leadership training and retreats. This is the focus of her Doctoral candidature in Organisational Psychology (now on hold) and informed the development of her executive retreat The Leadership Tango: Eight Steps to Leadership Wisdom using Argentine tango as medium and metaphor for mindfulness in leadership and fellowship.
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