Your Mindfulness Journey Awaits:

Embrace Presence, Contentment, Wisdom & Compassion

Join Mindfulness teachers Amy and Joanna for a series of guided sessions, exploring ancient meditation practices and modern cognitive behavioural methods to alleviate stress and create a sense of flourishing in your life.

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Welcome to Your

Mindfulness for Life Course

In a world that often pulls us in a hundred different directions, it's easy to feel overwhelmed, stressed, and disconnected. If you find yourself caught in the chaos, know that you're not alone - many of us have been there.

The current global environment and the modern pace of everyday life can leave us feeling as if we're navigating on autopilot, detached from the present moment, continuously reacting rather than responding wisely. It's common to crave a sense of calm and connection amidst the chaos.

The Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L) course offers a structured curriculum that will support you in discovering a new way of being in the world. The teaching in the course was developed by the University of Oxford and the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation (OMF) and offers evidence-based cognitive behavioural techniques combined with experiential learning through ancient mindfulness meditation practices. This powerful combination is designed to help improve your wellbeing and empower you in facing life's hurdles with resilience and clarity.

Join us as we explore practical mindfulness techniques together, offering a sanctuary for self-discovery and a roadmap to a more centred and present life.

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“You are the sky. Everything else - it's just the weather"

Pema Chödrön

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What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a meditation-based practice of bringing attention to the present moment, with kindness and compassion. It is holding an intention of being more aware and awake to each moment and being fully engaged in what is happening in one’s surroundings – with acceptance and allowing what is here, to be here.

By intentionally becoming aware of physical sensations, emotions and thoughts, you can create space and respond to circumstances with a wise mind, and live a life of choice and freedom.

Mindfulness + Cognitive Behavioural Elements

Combining mindfulness with cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques creates a powerful approach to daily life. Principles of CBT come together with mindfulness practices to support you in creating new habits, developing self compassion, and cultivating positive mindsets.

This course can help you:

Develop practical skills to support your wellbeing
Understand the workings of your mind
Cultivate a new relationship with your thoughts, feelings, and body sensations
Respond to stress, anxiety, low mood, pain, other difficulties
Find greater perspective, balance, and flourishing in life

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“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”

Marcel Proust

What to expect in the course:

Throughout the program, you'll engage in experiential learning, guided meditations, and interactive sessions in a small group. You'll acquire skills to reduce living life in autopilot, notice thoughts without judgment, reframe negative patterns, and develop a deeper understanding of yourself and your responses to life's complexities.

The course format consists of:

8 weekly online sessions, 2 hours each
Guided meditations and invitational reflective space
Cognitive exercises to support learning about the workings of the mind
An optional day of practice to deepen your experience
Recorded audio files of meditations to use for home practice
Written materials to refer to between sessions and after the course
Experiential learning in a supportive group environment

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We have two courses coming up in 2024. We’d love to welcome you on this mindfulness journey.

Tuesdays, 16 April - 11 June, 7:00pm - 9:00pm GMT

(with a break on 28 May)

Day of Practice on 8 June, 12:00pm - 4:00pm GMT
Virtual & live on Zoom - join from anywhere!

Tuesdays, 10 September - 29 October, 7:00pm - 9:00pm GMT
Day of Practice on 19 October, 12:00pm - 4:00pm GMT
Virtual & live on Zoom - join from anywhere!

£149 for the full 8 week course, materials, & day of practice

Bursaries are available for those on low incomes, please contact us.

Please complete the enrolment form, and we will be in touch with payment details as well as further course information.

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About your teachers

Joanna Brown

Joanna is a social worker and mindfulness teacher, having trained with the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation. She has worked as a Mental Health Social Worker in the National Health Service (NHS) for 20 years. Joanna has been drawn to contemplative practices throughout her life. She values mindfulness as a way of managing emotions that arise from her work as a social worker and as a source of nourishment in her daily life. As a teacher she aspires to be genuine and compassionate, supporting others to cultivate a kind and peaceful heart, and encouraging compassion towards their own experience.

Amy Garcia

Amy is a mindfulness and yoga teacher, Reiki healer, yoga therapy trainee, and marketing consultant. Amy has a background working in high-stress corporate and charity environments, and after experiencing burnout and being diagnosed with an inflammatory disease, began to explore holistic practices to support her wellbeing. Mindfulness has helped her learn to relate to chronic pain in another way, and continues to provide daily respite from stress and anxiety. Amy trained with the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation and wants to share the immense benefits she’s found through Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy.

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