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Mark Williams helps us Discover Joy in Troubled Times
Few people have done more than Professor Mark Williams to make mindfulness accessible and popular in the UK. Given this, we are super excited that Mark is to speak at our eleventh annual conference.
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Leading with compassion: Transforming workplace culture
Robert Marx, co-lead for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre gives a talk on “Leading with Compassion: Transforming Workplace Culture” for BAMBA’s next Mindful Workplace Community event. Mindfulness and compassion-based interventions can be transformative for individuals, but lasting change requires a systemic approach. Shifting an organisation’s culture often begins with its leaders. In this event, you will:✔️ Understand some key principles underlying compassionate leadership.✔️ Have a sense of the core components and structure of the SMC Compassionate Leadership Training.✔️ Experience some compassionate leadership practices that you can use in your work.✔️ Feel inspired to develop these ideas in your organisations and workplaces.…
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Faith and mindfulness practice
Robert Marx initiates a day long workshop to explore mindfulness, heartfulness and compassion practices from different faith traditions. Here he explains the thinking behind the day. I’m very excited to be thinking about and planning this day. In the NHS, we frequently talk about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Religion is one of the protected characteristics in the Equalities Act that often gets left out of the conversation. The NHS is rightly a totally secular organisation providing evidence-based healthcare, not religious belief and practice. And yet, it’s important to acknowledge that some of the concepts and practices directly derived from religion,…
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Opening to the feel of things and deepening my practice
Bridgette O’Neill is preparing to lead the new eight-week course Deeper Mindfulness: Frame by Frame with colleague Taravajra. Here she writes about what she appreciates about this new course that was developed by Professor Mark Williams. Have you ever felt that your mindfulness practice has plateaued? I know I have. Like brushing my teeth or exercising, formal mindfulness practice is part of my daily life and has been, and is, transformational for me. However, from experience I know that with familiarity I can move into a comfortable zone where my ability to see clearly can get foggy. Of course, with…
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Review your year with compassion: message from Robert and Clara
In their end of year message, Robert Marx and Clara Strauss (co-leads of the Sussex Mindfulness Centre) invite you to review your year with compassion. As we come towards the end of the year, it can be helpful to take some time to reflect on the year that has passed. It can be tempting to judge the things we have done or said, or not done or said. We may find we evaluate them against expectations we have, or others might have of us. Did we achieve this or that? Did we reach this or that goal? It can be…
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Winner in Innovations in Mindfulness Awards
The Sussex Mindfulness Centre has won an Innovations in Mindfulness Award for their pioneering work running mindfulness courses for women refugees The award was announced on 19 October 2024, at the Manchester Mindfulness Festival. The awards were initiated to celebrate “the creativity that makes mindfulness practices more accessible, more diverse and more effective.” The Centre won this award under the Creative Partnerships category which acknowleges the role of all the individuals and organisations that made this work possible. The first most important collaboration, and part of the winning team, were Ariana Faris and Sheila Webb for pioneering the development of…