ABSTRACT
The intention of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) inquiry is to facilitate participants to recognise their own direct experience, to place this in a context of personal understanding, to bring new learning into conscious awareness, and to connect all this to skilful ways of working with challenges in daily life. When participants practice mindfulness they are investigating and inquiring into the nature of the mind. Jon Kabat-Zinn described several attitudinal qualities that underpin mindfulness practice, which are both the stance they bring to the practice and a consequence of it. The process of investigating experience works with things as they are right now, and allows an understanding that change takes place in its own time. Participants are encouraged to develop a faith in the validity of their own experiences. During an inquiry process the teacher is conveying a sense of trust in the person's expertise in relation to his or her personal experience.
