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Mindfulness tasters and short courses
Check out our free one-hour tasters and refreshers, and short mindfulness courses to help you get started with mindfulness.
Eight-week mindfulness courses
Book an eight-week course. We offer Mindful Self-Compassion, Deepening Mindfulness and other mindfulness-based courses.
Live sessions, workshops & retreats
To help you maintain and deepen your practice, we offer a range of free live online and in-person meditation sessions, workshops and retreats.
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MBCT for difficult-to-treat depression workshop
This workshop introduces findings from the RESPOND trial. It evaluates MBCT as a treatment for people who had not remitted following high-intensity NHS Talking Therapies.
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Trauma-informed mindful movement workshop
In this day long workshop, we will join together in a spirit of connection and collaboration to explore the various ways in which our personal meditation practice can open to meet the challenges of the wider world, of which we are a part. What is covered? Foundations of mindful movement will include safety principles, intentions and offering guidance with graded movement. We will draw on the work of environmental activist and systems scholar Joanna Macy, as well as interpersonal and personal mindfulness practice. Building understanding, confidence and skills to bring awareness of moving mindfully to your specific population and setting.…
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Leading with compassion: Transforming workplace culture
Robert Marx, co-lead for the Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion gives a talk on “Leading with Compassion: Transforming Workplace Culture” for BAMBA’s next Mindful Workplace Community event. Mindfulness and compassion-based interventions can be transformative for individuals, but lasting change requires a systemic approach. Shifting an organisation’s culture often begins with its leaders. In this event, you will:✔️ Understand some key principles underlying compassionate leadership.✔️ Have a sense of the core components and structure of the SMC Compassionate Leadership Training.✔️ Experience some compassionate leadership practices that you can use in your work.✔️ Feel inspired to develop these ideas in your organisations and…
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Lizzy West: My journey with mindfulness
Lizzy West, a Social Prescriber, describes how writing a social prescription for herself to try a mindfulness course has helped her to find inner resilience and confidence to be there for herself.
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Hannah Rudd: My journey with mindfulness
Hannah Rudd describes how a Mindful Self-Compassion course helped her to manage shame around her autism, support herself through challenges and nurture self-compassion.
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Compassionate Leadership Training for health and social care leaders on Tuesday afternoons
Compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation, and reduced staff stress, injuries and absenteeism, and even reduced patient mortality. Six online sessions on Tuesdays from 7 October until 18 November (no session on 28 October). Following this, there will be follow-up sessions to review our learning and practice on Overview At the heart of compassion is the notion that everyone experiences difficulty, and that we can all play a role in alleviating our own difficulties and those of others. Whether this is compassion for ourselves, the people we lead, colleagues or service users. We won’t always feel like helping…