Create space to simply be
Mindfulness tools to reduce stress and live your life to the full
Why Mindfulness?
Do you wish to live with greater ease? Experience less stress and and anxiety?
Feel more connected to the people in your life?
With practice, mindfulness can help you to live more fully and meaningfully, with greater awareness, clarity and compassion. By being fully engaged in the present moment, with an accepting attitude and without judgement, it is possible to feel more alive and connected to the world within and around you.
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
By developing body and breath awareness, mindfulness has been found to have several health and wellbeing benefits, when practised regularly. In the UK, NHS Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) recognises mindfulness in promoting mental wellbeing.
MSBR Programme
The MBSR programme is considered the gold standard in secular mindfulness training. This 8-week programme is designed to help you embed mindfulness in your everyday life.
Registration is now open for the programme starting Friday 10th January 2025.
Evidence-based Mindfulness
- Become aware of your inner and outer experience.
- Find space to develop deep personal insight.
- Change the way you relate to difficulties.
- Create new choices in how to live life fully.
- Experience an opportunity for calm, growth and transformation.
What does it entail?
The MBSR programme runs for 8-weeks and is designed to help you embed mindfulness in your everyday life.
Learning will combine experiential practice, group discussion and reflection. Online sessions, lasting 2 hours, are held once a week.
Experiential practice
Group meditation and home practice form a key part of the programme helping you to embed mindfulness into everyday life.
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Group discussion
Facilitated inquiry allows you the space and opportunity to share your experience, and learn from others in the group.
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Reflection
Reflecting on your own practice, you’ll begin to learn more about yourself and your responses to stress.
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Retreats
I hold several half-day retreats each year. These are an optional element of my MBSR programme and are also open to anyone. This year money raised from retreat fees will be donated to Pancreatic Cancer UK.
Retreat dates:
Sunday 8th September 2024
Sunday 9th February 2025
Alison guided [anon] and me in a calm and encouraging way – She was interested in all our problems and made the sessions enjoyable which encouraged me to follow the practices she taught us – I am very grateful for her help which is already showing a change in my way of coping with anxiety.
Just to say a big thank you Alison, for all of your guidance, it’s been a rich and rewarding journey.
I was sceptical that my ADHD would be a stumbling block in the course. I’ve tried meditation before and been unable to sustain practice. I think the mix of theory, science and discussion on this course has helped to embed the learning.
Only that I’m so grateful that this came into my life at the time it did. It’s been life changing and helped me cope with a cancer diagnosis.
You have been so very patient with us all and have an amazing aptitude for delivering the content of the session in a very ‘real ‘way and helping to draw out some of the things we don’t talk about, a way to get us all to open up.
I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say how amazing the MBSR sessions have been for me and I’ll really miss seeing everyone on a Friday. I honestly feel much more balanced and in charge of myself and the stresses that come with my crazy life and all its challenges.