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When times get hard – effective leaders practice compassion
Compassion is not a virtue – it is a commitment. It’s not something we have or don’t have – it’s something we choose to practice. There is no escaping the NHS crisis narrative at the moment. It includes a cocktail of the enduring legacy of Covid, high levels of stress and burnout for staff resulting…
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Compassion in challenging times with Dr Thupten Jinpa
We are excited to be hosting Dr Thupten Jinpa for a talk on compassion in challenging times. The Buddhist scholar and principal translator for the Dalai Lama, sets out to answer the question, “How can healthcare providers offer compassion when they themselves face challenging times?” Book your tickets for this online event here. In the talk,…
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New mindfulness course for Black, Asian and People of Colour
We are making mindfulness training available to diverse communities that are underrepresented within mainstream NHS services. At the end of last year, with local organisation MindOut, we ran the eight-week mindfulness course for LGBTQ participants. At the beginning of this year, we started a ten-week trauma-informed adapted course for asylum seekers and refugees, in collaboration…
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“How mindfulness helps me” by Robert Marx
Quite often we promote mindfulness as a way of feeling less stressed, less depressed, less anxious, less self-punishing. We gather ourselves around the breath, pause and let our parasympathetic nervous system activate, returning to being the self that we like being, the one that can be more grounded, calmer, kinder. I can breathe into that…
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New Year: New You? New mindfulness courses for SPFT staff
“The mindfulness course provided me with a renewed sense of wellbeing and connection.” Many of us make resolutions in the New Year, and forget them by the end of January. Mostly our resolutions aim to improve ourselves, and our lives… But it can be difficult to keep up the momentum, when the usual challenges of…
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Desperately seeking healthcare staff with experience of mindfulness
MINDARISE is a new research programme that is looking to recruit healthcare staff with any experience of mindfulness (at any level and through any format). Examples might include using a digital app like Headspace, attending a short mindfulness course, or lone practices when out and about. Whatever your experience of mindfulness, it is invaluable…
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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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