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Ten years of Mindfulness in Westminster
The Mindfulness Initiative’s new report, Mindfulness in Westminster: Reflections from UK Politicians, is a reflection of ten years of mindfulness training in the UK Parliament, and brings together politicians’ insights on the personal and interpersonal benefits they have experienced. The report makes a compelling case for providing politicians with evidence-based psycho-social training, such as mindfulness, to help manage their mental wellbeing, their everyday effectiveness, and their ability to ‘disagree better’. You are invited to join a webinar, chaired by the Mindfulness Initiative’s new director, Richard Edwards. In the session the authors of the report, Ruth Ormston and Jamie Bristow will…
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Interested in teaching mindfulness?
I got everything I needed from the training and was equipped to take that back out into real life.” Alumni of Sussex Mindfulness Centre’s teacher training Why not train to teach mindfulness with one of the leading centres in the UK? You can find out about our teacher training here. And you can find out what training is right for you here. Join a free online information session with the trainers (see the bottom of the page to book). Uniquely, we offer you the chance to teach alongside an experienced teacher as part of your training. This takes you closer…
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Making mindfulness accessible to the public and communities
New departure for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre as we offer mindfulness and compassion courses to the public and underrepresented communities, for the first time…
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Refresh for Sussex Mindfulness Centre
You may have noticed the Sussex Mindfulness Centre website has undergone a refresh. We have a slightly revised logo, a cleaner, fresher look and a website designed with you, the user, in mind. We hope you like it. While a lot of thought and effort has gone into the refresh, we were also keen to build on what we had, and what our users and audiences are already familiar with. So we slightly revised our shell logo that symbolises our connection with nature and our location near the sea, to make it work better in social media. New line drawings…
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Miracles of mindfulness; working with women refugees
Julia Powell writes about her recent humbling experience co-leading mindfulness for groups of women refugees, asylum seekers and migrants… Lana Jackson and I have just finished co-leading our second ten-week mindfulness course for women refugees. We’ve been using the trauma-informed Mindfulness Across Borders curriculum developed by Ariana Faris and Sheila Webb and funded by the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation. The initiative is part of the Sussex Mindfulness Centre’s effort to reach underrepresented communities. With Lana’s encouragement and enthusiasm for eco-therapy, we ran this second course outdoors, in a secluded garden in Stanmer Park, Brighton. The setting was perfect. We had a…
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My transformation with mindful self-compassion
Indi, Quality Improvement Advisor for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, writes from the heart about her mindfulness journey and her more recent experience of Sussex Mindfulness Centre’s eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion course. When I learnt how to apply self compassion, it was literally transformational for me. That’s not a word I use lightly. Indi, Quality Improvement Advisor, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust I had done the standard eight-week mindfulness courses a number of times, getting different benefits each time. My meditation practice had been a constant, if somewhat inconsistent thread in my wellbeing recovery over a couple of decades. I’d worked…