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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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Innovations in Mindfulness Awards 2024
Have you done something innovative in mindfulness? Have you made mindfulness more accessible? If so, perhaps you should think of applying for an Innovations in Mindfulness Award. Applications for 2024 are now open! The Mindfulness Initiative welcomes applications to this, the second round of awards for innovative work in the mindfulness sector. Innovation is a crucial element in making mindfulness practices more accessible, diverse and effective. Find out more and apply here. Launched in 2022, the Innovations in Mindfulness Awards seek to celebrate and encourage creative innovations which are developing the field and making the benefits of mindfulness available to…
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What does it mean to be the world’s happiest man?
Robert Marx, Co-Lead for the Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion and Anna-Maria Frastali, psychology graduate intern, write about Matthieu Ricard, author, humanitarian and monk, who joins us for a rare public online talk on 4 June. Every year the United Nations present a report with the world’s happiest countries. In their latest report, the role of benevolence and altruism are especially highlighted. Apparently, across countries, helping others without expecting something in return leads to happiness. Not only the recipients of altruism experience an improved wellbeing, but the individuals who help others also report increased wellbeing. It shouldn’t be surprising then, that…
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Mindful Self-Compassion teacher training pathway available in UK for first time
For mindfulness teachers and practitioners who want to teach the eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion course, there is now a clear teacher training pathway available in the UK.
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Belonging – An intercultural mindfulness gathering, 27 July 2024
Celebrate ‘Belonging – An intercultureal mindfulness gathering’ on 27 July 2024. The key themes of the 6th Annual Empowerment Symposium are intercultural dialogue; mindfulness; peacebuilding; belonging; equality, diversity and inclusion.
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Shower yourself with love this Valentine’s Day
Julia Powell, mindfulness teacher and Business Manager at the Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion, shares some tips to practice self-love and compassion this Valentine’s day. Why not shower yourself with love this Valentine’s Day? If you struggle with the concept of being kind to yourself, consider these questions. When you’ve made a mistake do you find that you turn on yourself? Do you reprimand and blame yourself perhaps muttering sentiments such as ‘I’m no good at this’ or ‘I’m out of my depth’? So now apart from the actual problem, you have added another layer of distress by being unkind to…
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The Future of Mindfulness; our tenth annual conference 10 May 2024
The tenth annual conference of the Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion, on 10 May 2024, is the Future of Mindfulness. All the details can be found here.