LOOKING FOR WAYS TO ACHIVE MORE INNER PEACE AND CALM?

FEELING OVERWHELMED AND STRESSED?

EXPERIENCING INCREASING MOMENTS OF ANXIETY?

EXHAUSTED THROUGH LACK OF SLEEP?

Mindfulness for Life is an in-depth, skills-based course created to help you cultivate lasting, sustainable and positive change.

If you are experiencing stress, anxiety, recurrent depression or feel generally 'dissatisfied' with your life, this course could offer you some skills in how better to respond to the 'ups and downs' of everyday living and to help you savour life and flourish.

The aim of this course is to promote awareness of your mind and body through the cultivation of mindful awareness. It is suitable for people wishing to enhance their general physical and mental wellbeing.

In this course, you’ll learn:

To recognise the tendency to be on automatic pilot and how stepping out of it, by bringing mindfulness into our daily lives, can help us to live our lives more fully.
To notice how often we are lost in our thoughts and feelings and practices which help to recognise this and help us to ‘gather the scattered mind’ and return to the here and now.
How mindfulness can help us to recognise when we’re caught up in unhelpful patterns of thinking, feeling and acting, understand them and bring kindness to them.
Skills for keeping our balance through life’s ups and down and for responding skilfully when difficulties arise, engaging with what is most important to us and opening up to joy, contentment and gratitude.

Sessions are group-based and take place weekly over the 8-week period. The first session is 2.5 hours and the remaining sessions are 2.15 hours.

The course also includes a 5-hour ‘Day of Practice’ on Sunday 8th June, 12.30-5.30pm.

What to expect on this course

Each of the 8 group sessions has its own theme and follow a consistent pattern. After greetings and getting settled, you’ll begin with a guided meditation, followed by reflection and discussion around the experiences of the practice.

There’ll then be space for you to share your experiences of the home practices from the previous week. The weekly theme will be woven into the discussion.

Often, there’ll be another short practice or a cognitive exercise and time to reflect on any learnings. Near the end of each session, the home practices for the following week will be explained to you.

You’re also encouraged to continue to practise mindfulness between each taught session. Your teacher will provide recordings for the main practices and ask you to practise up to 45 minutes each day.

This involves a mixture of following the recordings of guided practices, and bringing mindful awareness into your everyday activities.

Benefits of Mindfulness for Life

Research shows that mindfulness courses like this one have many benefits:

Reduced feelings of stress, anxiety, and depression
Improved ability to cope with pain and illness
Less worrying and obsessing over things
Greater appreciation of what is pleasant and enjoyable in life
Feeling clearer about what is truly meaningful, and living life with a stronger sense of purpose
Improved overall well-being, even in difficult times

We can’t guarantee all of these benefits for everyone, but our own experience and the published research tell us that changes like these are very common and make the challenges of participating worthwhile.

The programme is not being offered as a treatment for any specific physical or psychological conditions. It is not suitable for people who are currently experiencing very severe problems in these areas.

If you have any questions, or you are struggling to pay the full price and would like to discuss a bursary or payment plan, please contact me to , on 07506458476.

Entry criteria – who can apply for this course?

You can apply to this course if you:

Can commit to attending all 8 sessions of the programme and the Day of Practice
Have both the time and motivation to dedicate up to 45 minutes of personal practice each day
Are over 18 years of age

PLEASE NOTE

The sessions will be recorded (audio only) for training purposes, and will never be shared other than with the qualified supervisor.

Mindfulness For Life 8-week Course To Reduce Stress and Improve Wellbeing