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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…
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Reasons to pause for thought at Mindful Culture conference
The theme of our conference this year was ‘mindful culture’. With all the many challenges and pressures facing our society and the organisations we work for the topic couldn’t have been more prescient. Speakers and participants posed and answered central questions during key note talks and workshops: What is mindful culture? How can a more mindful culture help improve access to improved mental health and flourishing for all? What is the impact of the wider environment such as social media, the polarisation of debate, the cost-of-living crisis, climate change and the increasing pressures facing children and young people? What are…
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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, co-hosted with the Compassion Institute, Jinpa will touch on the themes facing the human face of the health and social care sector in the UK today. In the wake of unimaginable health crises brought upon by the global pandemic, healthcare professionals, of both physical and…