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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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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 in people leaving the NHS, alongside pay disputes and industrial action. The cost of living crisis is also taking its toll, increasing demand on social care and the third sector and putting more pressure on already overstretched services and capacity. These are complex issues with…
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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 with local organisations, particularly the Network of International Women in Brighton & Hove. And in the Spring, we plan to run a culturally relevant version of mindfulness-based inclusion training for Black, Asian and People of Colour communities starting with a taster on 29 March. Find…
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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 gnarly little knot I have become in that moment of aggravation and open to a bigger space – and feel better. But actually, I also appreciate the practice for opening up a space that lets me feel worse. In my haze of avoidance and reactivity,…
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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 daily living get in the way. If your work is stressful, coming back after a break can be especially challenging. You may be aware that emails will have continued to land in your in-box… and it’s probably a time of the year when your services…
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Workshops at Spring conference: “What is mindful culture?”
We have a varied and engaging set of workshops for people attending our Spring conference on 10 March 2023. Supporting the conference theme around mindful culture, we are happy to announce the following workshops. Exploring mindfulness based inclusion training with Dean Francis Join us as we come together to look at what mindfulness can bring to the table around social inclusion and what an awareness of our social context can bring to our practice. We will explore how our differences can unify us rather than separate us and how mindfulness can be presented to diverse groups and individuals in a…
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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 to our research and could ultimately aid recommendations that influence policy on mental health and well-being support for healthcare staff. By joining this study, you will be contributing to active research in an understudied area. This could lead to future recommendations that influence policy…