Intensive Cognitive Therapy Training

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them."

- Epictetus, Enchiridion, c. 125 AD

"If our thinking is bogged down by distorted symbolic meanings, illogical reasoning, and erroneous interpretations, we become, in truth, blind and deaf."

- Aaron T. Beck, Love Is Never Enough, 1989

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946

"Too many people are unaware that it is not outer events or circumstances that will create happiness; rather, it is our perception of events and of ourselves that will create, or uncreate, positive emotions."

- Albert Ellis, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

"Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think."

- Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism, 2006

"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, c. 180 AD

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."

- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them."

- Epictetus, Enchiridion, c. 125 AD

"Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs, we can lower excessive reactions."

- Aaron Beck, Cognitive Therapy (1976, p. 216)

"If our thinking is bogged down by distorted symbolic meanings, illogical reasoning, and erroneous interpretations, we become, in truth, blind and deaf."

- Aaron T. Beck, Love Is Never Enough, 1989

"You have considerable power to construct self-helping thoughts, feelings and actions as well as to construct self-defeating behaviors. You have the ability, if you use it, to choose healthy instead of unhealthy thinking, feeling, and acting."

- Albert Ellis, Overcoming Destructive Beliefs, Feelings, and Behaviors, 2010

"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way."

- Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946

"Psychology has had only of a handful of legendary figures who not only command attention across much of the discipline but also receive high recognition from the public for their work. Albert Ellis was such a figure, known inside and outside psychology for his astounding originality, his provocative ideas, and his provocative personality. He bestrode the practice of psychotherapy like a colossus."

- Eulogy by Dr. Frank Farley, former president of the American Psychological Association, 2007

"More than 68% of the respondents [in a Psychotherapy Networker poll, 2007] endorsed CBT as used in whole or in combination with other approaches” and “… Aaron Beck came in as number two [most influential psychotherapist], Al Ellis was rated as the sixth most influential psychotherapist."

- Dr. R DiGiuseppe, J. Rat-Emo Cog-Behav. Ther. (2011) 29:220-227

"Too many people are unaware that it is not outer events or circumstances that will create happiness; rather, it is our perception of events and of ourselves that will create, or uncreate, positive emotions."

- Albert Ellis, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy

"Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think."

- Martin Seligman, Learned Optimism, 2006

"If we eliminate from ancient writings a few allusions that gave them local colour, we shall find the ideas of Socrates, Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius absolutely modern and applicable to our times."

- Dubois, 1909, pp. 108–109.

"Needing leads to bleeding–to almost all inevitable suffering."

- Albert Ellis, Buddhism and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.

"…we argue that CBT is the gold-standard psychological treatment—as the best standard we have in the field currently available—for the following reasons: (1) CBT is the most researched form of psychotherapy. (2) No other form of psychotherapy has been shown to be systematically superior to CBT; if there are systematic differences between psychotherapies, they typically favor CBT. (3) Moreover, the CBT theoretical models/mechanisms of change have been the most researched and are in line with the current mainstream paradigms of human mind and behavior (e.g., information processing)."

- D. David, I. Cristea, and S. G. Hofmann; Why Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Is the Current Gold Standard of Psychotherapy; Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2018; 9: 4.

"Because of this impressive amount of empirical support, it is not surprising that CBT has found its way onto most treatment guidelines for a variety of psychiatric conditions, including those produced by the U.K.’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence and the American Psychiatric Association."

- B. A. Gaudiano, Cognitive-Behavioral Therapies: Achievements and Challenges, Evid Based Ment. Health. 2008 Feb; 11(1): 5–7.

"… even if successful training of a larger CBT workforce is achieved, it is unrealistic to expect that there will ever be enough therapists to treat everyone in need."

- Y. Liang, 2017. Mind the gap: cognitive behaviour therapy in the real world; The Wider World.

"As a person thinks, so she or he be his."

- Proverbs 23:7

"What we think, we become."

- Guatama Buddha

"What we see, hear, feel about or infer is never it, but only our human abstraction about it."

- A. Korzybski (creator of General Semantics), 1951

"In times where small instructor-led classrooms tend to be the exception, electronic learning solutions can offer more collaboration and interaction with experts and peers, as well as a higher success rate than the live alternative."

- Keith Bachmann, Corporate E-Learning Executive, W. R. Hambrecht and Associates

"The biggest benefit of eLearning is the utter lack of pressure. Because you get to set your own schedule and study only when you have time, eLearning makes learning not something you have to get over with, but something you look forward to! From experience, you learn more when you enjoy the process."

- Mark Hayes, Head of Marketing at Kintell

"… adult learners want learning to be specific to their job, quick and have merit, and using an online platform allows users to learn at their own pace and use when needed. It is a win for all."

- Dr. Sharon Jones, CEO & Founder of The Dottie Rose Foundation

"The Research Institute of America found that eLearning increases retention rates 25% to 60% while retention rates of face-to-face training are very low in comparison: 8% to 10%. This is because with eLearning students have more control over the learning process as well as the opportunity to revisit the training as needed."

"According to a Brandon-Hall Study, learning through e-learning typically requires 40% to 60% less employee time than learning the same material in a traditional classroom setting. This is because it can be performed asynchronously and whenever the student needs it; this way workflow is not interrupted. It is important to note that saving time doesn’t affect learning quality; it's actually quite the opposite."