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Spread your tail – Learn to teach mindfulness
Whether you’re interested in running an eight-week mindfulness course for the general population or want to bring mindfulness into your current work with your clients, the Sussex Mindfulness Centre has a teacher training course for you. Applications are now open for courses starting in February 2023. Find out more We’ll be having an online session at 6.30pm on Thursday, 10 November 2022 so you can find out more about the course and can ask any questions. Or you can arrange a call with the course convenor. Register your interest by emailing smc@spft.nhs.uk One of the leading centres You can…
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Take refuge from the storm: try mindfulness
Mindfulness can help us find balance through life’s ups and downs. It helps us learn to respond more skilfully when difficulties arise. Mindfulness training can help us to learn to pay attention in the present moment, and therefore spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future. We can begin to notice habits of the mind that might not be helpful to us. The more we can spot these habits and patterns the more we have a choice about how to respond, and find more stability. How can mindfulness help me? Research has shown that mindfulness can…
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Equity, diversity and inclusion teacher training
Calling all mindfulness teachers For the first time we’re running a mindfulness based equity, diversity and inclusion masterclass to help mindfulness teachers make their courses more inclusive. The session, run in the centre of Brighton, will show how differences can unify, rather than separate us. It will show how mindfulness can be adapted to serve diverse communities in ways that are grounded in equality and inclusion. The all-day training on 13 October, is run by Dean Francis, the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) consultant at the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. Dean is also a Trustee and EDI co-lead at BAMBA and…
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Can mindfulness contribute to a more inclusive culture?
If culture is made up of the values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviours shared by a group of people – then how can mindfulness and a greater awareness of social inequalities transform the status quo? The Sussex Mindfulness Centre rescheduled conference 2023, sets out to explore this question. Our keynote speakers will share their research and experience of how mindfulness can contribute to a more inclusive culture. Chris Ruane, a driving force behind bringing mindfulness to the UK parliament, will throw light on how it can impact the culture of politics in which power imbalances reinforce societal inequalities. Chris Tamdjidi, an…
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Professorship for co-lead at Sussex Mindfulness Centre
Clara Strauss, co-lead of Sussex Mindfulness Centre, has been appointed to a professorship, as a result of her research into mental health and wellbeing at Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Clara Strauss, Deputy Director of Research at Sussex Partnership and Professor of Clinical Psychology in the University of Sussex School of Psychology, co-leads the Sussex Mindfulness Centre and specialises in research into mindfulness and its relationship to wellbeing. Clara said: “I’m delighted our research has been recognised and I’m grateful for the hard work of colleagues who I’ve been fortunate to work with on a range of projects. Successful research…
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Train to teach Mindful Self-Compassion
Are you interested in teaching mindful self-compassion? Why not join our six-day foundation course, and learn in the beautiful surroundings of the Ammerdown Retreat Centre, near Bath. Based on pioneering research by Kristin Neff and integrated with the clinical perspective of Christopher Germer, mindful self compassion teaches the core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to difficult emotions with care and understanding. The three key components of self-compassion are self-kindness, a sense of common humanity, and balanced, mindful awareness. Kindness opens our hearts to suffering, so we can give ourselves what we need. Common humanity opens us to…