In the first of a series of blog posts Tamsin describes her journey with mindfulness. For Tamsin, mindfulness was a last resort as she struggled to deal with the depression and anxiety that has followed her since she was a teenager.
This workshop draws on clinical research and lived experience to work with trauma in mindfulness-based work. What is covered? This training will enable you to identify signs of trauma in your participants and provide practical ways of helping participants manage it. It will help you understand what challenges and adaptations you may need to make to your standard teaching to help support people with trauma histories. We approach the training from different perspectives: clinicians working in the field of trauma, researchers discussing the evidence base for what we know is effective, and service users sharing their experience of what worked…
In their end of year message, Robert Marx and Clara Strauss (co-leads of the Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion) invite you to review your year with compassion. As we come towards the end of the year, it can be helpful to take some time to reflect on the year that has passed. It can be tempting to judge the things we have done or said, or not done or said. We may find we evaluate them against expectations we have, or others might have of us. Did we achieve this or that? Did we reach this or that goal? It can…
A one-day workshop in Brighton exploring the roots of contemporary mindfulness, heartfulness and compassion-based practices.
‘Deeper Mindfulness: exploring feeling tone Frame by Frame’ is a new eight-week course developed by Mark Williams and colleagues. It is designed for those who have already completed an eight-week mindfulness-based programme and want to explore mindfulness more deeply.
The Mindfulness for Life programme has evolved from Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy. The programme was developed by the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation to offer mindfulness practices and cognitive-behavioural techniques to enable everybody to improve their wellbeing.