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  • New mindfulness course for Black, Asian and People of Colour

    New mindfulness course for Black, Asian and People of Colour

    We are making mindfulness training available to diverse communities that are underrepresented within mainstream NHS services. At the end of last year, with local organisation MindOut, we ran the eight-week mindfulness course for LGBTQ participants. At the beginning of this year, we started a ten-week trauma-informed adapted course for asylum seekers and refugees, in collaboration…

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  • “How mindfulness helps me” by Robert Marx

    “How mindfulness helps me” by Robert Marx

    Quite often we promote mindfulness as a way of feeling less stressed, less depressed, less anxious, less self-punishing. We gather ourselves around the breath, pause and let our parasympathetic nervous system activate, returning to being the self that we like being, the one that can be more grounded, calmer, kinder. I can breathe into that…

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  • New Year: New You? New mindfulness courses for SPFT staff

    “The mindfulness course provided me with a renewed sense of wellbeing and connection.” Many of us make resolutions in the New Year, and forget them by the end of January. Mostly our resolutions aim to improve ourselves, and our lives… But it can be difficult to keep up the momentum, when the usual challenges of…

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  • Desperately seeking healthcare staff with experience of mindfulness

    MINDARISE is a new research programme that is looking to recruit healthcare staff with any experience of mindfulness (at any level and through any format). Examples might include using a digital app like Headspace, attending a short mindfulness course, or lone practices when out and about.   Whatever your experience of mindfulness, it is invaluable…

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  • Workshops at Spring conference: “What is mindful culture?”

    We have a varied and engaging set of workshops for people attending our Spring conference on 10 March 2023. Supporting the conference theme around mindful culture, we are happy to announce the following workshops.   Exploring mindfulness based inclusion training with Dean Francis Join us as we come together to look at what mindfulness can bring…

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  • Spread your tail – Learn to teach mindfulness

    Whether you’re interested in running an eight-week mindfulness course for the general population or want to bring mindfulness into your current work with your clients, the Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion has a teacher training course for you. Applications are now open for courses starting in February 2023.  Find out more We’ll be having an online…

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