1. BACKGROUND
This program is a tremendously well researched and proven program
developed by highly experienced professionals.
Mark Williams - PhD Professor of Clinical Psychology University of Oxford
John Teasdale - PhD senior research appts Dept of Psychiatry Oxford and Cambridge
Ziebel Segal - PhD Head of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Unit – Centre for Addiction and
Mental Health
Jon Kabut - Professor Emeritus of Medicine University of Massachusetts
2. We have taken this program and done two things with it:-
3. We have taken this program and done two things with it:-
1. Put it into a wider perspective
4. We have taken this program and done two things with it:-
1. Put it into a wider perspective
2. Added some small but highly critical steps.
5. “If this program is so good then why do we need to
add these extra dimensions?”
7. Each year there is $1billon spent on self-help books!!
Now some of these will be very good programs.
8. Each year there is $1billon spent on self-help books!!
Now some of these will be very good programs.
So how come the next year another billion gets spent???
9. The person most likely to buy a self-help book this year is a
person who bought a self-help book last year…….
10. Our fundamental belief is that the reason that even very good
programs are limited in their success is because they try to
suggest that the answers to peoples problems can all be solved
entirely within themselves.
15. The most successful program developed for tackling
alcoholism was not psychology or taking pills
It was the 12 step program of AA
This program was first developed in the 1930’s and
has spread throughout the world
16. This program was first developed in the 1930’s and
has spread throughout the world
Most importantly it has endured decade after
decade.
17. There is only one reason that a program like this
could be so successful for so long
19. • One of the key elements that makes it
different from all these other programs
is that it recognises a fundamental
need for the help of a higher power.
20. • One of the key elements that makes it
different from all these other programs
is that it recognises a fundamental
need for the help of a higher power.
• If this is the key difference and given
the Proven, Enduring success of the 12
steps, it only makes sense to
incorporate this key element into our
program.
21. Separately, if the tools we develop in this
program only succeed in bringing
people back to the person they were,
and the life they were living before
depression struck
is that enough?
