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SUMMARY:Live mindfulness session: Third Thursday of the month
DESCRIPTION:Our live mindfulness sessions are led by experienced teachers\, and offer an opportunity to refresh and sustain your practice. It’s also hugely beneficial to practice with others. Join us. \n\n\n\nAbout the teacher\n\n\n\nThese sessions are led by David Ward. David has a keen interest in mindfulness and compassion-based approaches for supporting wellbeing\, and draws on 30 years of practising mindfulness meditation. \n\n\n\nWho are these for?\n\n\n\nThis live mindfulness session is now open to: \n\n\n\n\nAll NHS staff across the UK whether or not you have any experience of mindfulness.\n\n\n\nStaff of the Sussex Health and Care Partnership\n\n\n\nAnyone who has done an eight-week mindfulness course with the Sussex Mindfulness Centre.\n\n\n\nService users of the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust who have completed our eight-week Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy course.\n\n\n\n\nNot for clinical or crisis care\n\n\n\nWe offer these drop-in sessions to support your mindfulness practice\, to allow you an opportunity to try out mindfulness and build a sense of community. \n\n\n\nDuring the session\, please be prepared to have your camera on. If you feel distressed or unwell after a practice\, please let the teacher leading the session know and\, if appropriate\, your GP or a clinician working with you. \n\n\n\nIt is not advisable to do these mindfulness practices in the heat of a crisis\, when it would be important to access your GP or your designated mental health clinician. \n\n\n\nDo contact smc@spft.nhs.uk if you have questions about the drop-ins but please be aware that we are not a clinical or crisis service\, and it will not be possible to respond urgently or clinically to emails. \n\n\n\nWhere\n\n\n\n\n\nHow to book?\n\n\n\nPlease email spft.smc@nhs.net for a link to join us.  
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/live-mindfulness-session-third-thursday-of-the-month-2/2026-04-16/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Drop-in
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SUMMARY:Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for cancer: Masterclass
DESCRIPTION:An online day workshop for mindfulness teachers and those in training. Learning from the approach of working with people with cancer and those with life limiting or life threatening illness. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThis workshop is led by Trish Bartley\, an expert in this topic and author of MBCT for Cancer\, Gently Turning Towards (Bartley\, 2012)\, Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer (Bartley\, 2017). \n\n\n\nThis masterclass will introduce you to the rewards and challenges of working mindfully with people who have had cancer\, or life threatening / life limiting illness. You will be encouraged to transfer your learning from the MBCT for Cancer approach to your own mindfulness practice and teaching. We will particularly focus on: \n\n\n\n\nGroup process including inquiry\n\n\n\nBrief everyday practices\n\n\n\nFour Movements of Intention\, Coming Back\, Turning Towards and Kindness.\n\n\n\nWorking with the body and anxiety in the context of cancer / serious illness\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop format\n\n\n\nThe masterclass will be facilitated through a participative and experiential process\, giving you lots of opportunities to try out practices\, exercises and approaches\, and reflecting on them in small groups. There will be an emphasis on offering a choice to engage in whatever is best for you and your learning. There will be some didactic process\, but most ‘teaching’ will come out of the group process reflections\, inquiries and exercises. We hope you will find the masterclass to be engaging\, varied and easy to participate within a safe and inclusive group process. \n\n\n\nThere will be a focus on ensuring your learning is transferable across to your own teaching\, whether you work with general public\, workplace courses\, offer drop in or short taster sessions\, or within specialist courses for particular populations. However\, this masterclass will not equip you to teach MBCT for Cancer directly – but hopefully it may whet your appetite to do so in the future! \n\n\n\nWorkshop content\n\n\n\nWe will explore a number of core practices\, guided in ways that meet the needs of people who have sensitivities in different parts of the body and challenges in the heart mind. We will also bring horizontal and some vertical inquiry into our process following practice\, to show ways of safely involving the whole group as we lean into a sense of normalising and common humanity. \n\n\n\nPeople who have had cancer or serious illness are apt to experience significant anxiety and distress at times– and tend to fall into patterns of anxious rumination. We will look at a model of health anxiety that is central to week 4 in MBCT-Ca – and show how Turning Towards gently and gradually can be transformative\, if held in a way that is grounded and embodied by the teacher. \n\n\n\nIf time\, we will explore various curriculum exercises special to MBCT for Cancer that also work well with other populations. These will include ‘The Blob’ – that explores a way that contraction can build to amplify difficulty – and ‘The Sea of Reactions’ – another exercise within MBCT for Cancer that works well online and in person. You will also be able to experience for yourself the way that brief practices can be used in class and in everyday life. \n\n\n\nWho is this for?\n\n\n\nThis masterclass is for anyone teaching mindfulness based programmes\, whoever they teach – and those in training to teach Mindfulness Based Programmes. It is relevant to those who are experienced and those who are just beginning. It is not necessary to want to teach people with cancer or serious illness in order to benefit from this masterclass. The session will be led in a way that enables the learning from this approach to be as transferable as possible to whatever context you work in. \n\n\n\nThe facilitator\n\n\n\nTrish Bartley\n\n\n\n\nTrish Bartley\n\n\n\nTrish Bartley has been teaching mindfulness to people with cancer since 2001 – working clinically in a North Wales hospital (and the local community) for over twenty years. She was supervised by John Teasdale for many years to adapt\, tailor and publish MBCT for people with cancer. (Bartley\, 2012). Later she wrote and published a book for people with cancer themselves Mindfulness: A kindly approach for people with cancer (Bartley\, 2017). Trish has also co-written Teaching Mindfulness Based Groups (Bartley & Griffith\, 2022) and is currently finishing Mindfulness and Cancer\, an update book to the MBCT for Cancer programme\, which will come out next year. \n\n\n\nTrish teaches for Mindfulness Network and Oxford in the UK\, several European mindfulness training organisations\, and sometimes further afield such as in China and South Africa. This includes general mindfulness pathway trainings\, specialist training around cancer\, groupwork training\, and leading retreats\, and offering supervision. \n\n\n\n\nCertificates\n\n\n\nThis masterclass is valid for ongoing personal development in mindfulness. Certificates of attendance can be supplied on completion of the day’s training\, if requested. \n\n\n\nHow to book\n\n\n\nYou can book for your ticket for this masterclass here.  \n\n\n\nAs part of our equity\, diversity and inclusion policy\, we also have a limited number of concessionary tickets available on a first-come\, first-served basis. These are for people who are facing acute financial hardship and who would otherwise not be able to attend. To request a concession ticket please email spft.smc@nhs.net. \n\n\n\nWe are striving to make our courses accessible for all. If you have additional needs or learning styles\, please let us know so we can support you. 
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/mindfulness-based-cognitive-therapy-for-cancer/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Advanced,Masterclass
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SUMMARY:Mindfulness for living with cancer: Eight-week course - Thursday evenings
DESCRIPTION:This eight-week course uses mindfulness as a tool for self-care to support those living with and beyond a cancer diagnosis. It is designed to help improve wellbeing and give you tools to respond to the stresses and strains of everyday life. It is based on the original ground-breaking Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy course.  \n\n\n\nOverview​\n\n\n\nReceiving a cancer diagnosis\, undergoing treatments and living with the ongoing possibility of a recurrence\, however great or small\, is a life-changing experience – things will never be ‘the same as they were before’. However\, this is the hope and expectation of those around us\, particularly once active treatment has come to an end. This can leave us feeling isolated\, unheard and plagued by thoughts of ‘what if’. \n\n\n\nIn this eight-week mindfulness course\, written specifically for those living with a cancer diagnosis by leading practitioner in the field\, Trish Bartley\, we explore our daily experiences. This is not counselling\, but is skills-based learning that offers tools to help you work in a more skilful and compassionate way with the day-to-day challenges we face. \n\n\n\nParticipants welcome talking about the impact of cancer on their daily life with others ‘who get it’ as opposed to friends and family. They are engaged by learning what this thing called ‘mindfulness’ is and how each of us can apply it in our daily lives\, as a form of self-care. \n\n\n\nAttendance at all eight sessions of the course is crucial\, as is the commitment to 30 minutes of daily home practice. Many of us will need to carve out this time from the busyness of our daily routines\, the various roles we play\, as well as our habitual tendencies. There maybe 101 reasons why we may not be able to commit to this. But then we may also ask\, ‘if not now\, when?’ Maybe this is the time to prioritise our own self-care. \n\n\n\nWho is it for? \n\n\n\nThis eight-week course is designed for both those living with and beyond the cancer diagnosis\, be it a recent diagnosis or many years ago\, as well as others also affected. This includes partners\, family members\, carers and friends. \n\n\n\nAll active\, hospital-based treatment needs to have been completed\, and participants will need the physical and mental presence to gain the best from the course. Each applicant will have 45-minute one-to-one meeting with the course tutor\, Chris Barker\, to discuss their unique situation and hopes for the course. This helps ensure that this is the ‘right time’ for such a significant undertaking\, and to ensure the hopes / expectations are in line with what this course typically offers. No charge will be made for those who do not progress with the course following this meeting. \n\n\n\nWhen?\n\n\n\nEvery Thursday evening from 6.30-9pm\, starting on 16 April 2026 and concluding on 4 June 2026. An optional half-day retreat will take place from 10am to 2.30pm on Sunday 24 May 2026.  \n\n\n\nWhere?\n\n\n\nThe course and retreat are both online. \n\n\n\nYou will get Zoom log-in details when your place is confirmed. \n\n\n\nThe format of the course?\n\n\n\nThe course involves:  \n\n\n\n\nOne-to-one pre-course meeting lasting 45-minutes with the course tutor Chris Barker.\n\n\n\nEight weekly two and a half hour classes including mindfulness practices\, discussion and exercises.\n\n\n\nOptional half-day retreat\, lasting four and a half hours.\n\n\n\nDaily meditation home practice of 30 minutes.\n\n\n\n\nThe course involves mindfulness meditation practices of up to 30 minutes in each group session\, and the same period of recommended daily home practice. These will be guided by the mindfulness teacher in each session\, and via audio recordings for the home practice. Links to the audio guidance will be shared by email\, along with weekly notes\, which together provide a rich resource during and after the course. Please note: no CD’s or paper copies will be provided. \n\n\n\nEverything is optional\, and you are encouraged only to do what feels safe and comfortable for you. The practices may involve lying down\, sitting\, walking and other forms of movement. In the sessions\, the mindfulness teacher will invite group members to share their experiences of practice. Again\, this is completely optional\, and you are encouraged to share only what you are comfortable with. The sessions will include smaller-group discussions\, typically with two to four people. These discussions will be in Zoom break-out rooms. \n\n\n\nNB: For all mindfulness work\, the connection between the people in the group is central to the discovery and learning process\, so please keep the camera on throughout each session. Sessions will not be recorded. \n\n\n\nFacilitator \n\n\n\n\n\nChris Barker\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris came to mindfulness as a stressed Head of PE in a large secondary school. Despite his initial reservations that it was just “yoga and meditation\, that I couldn’t see myself doing” he was persuaded by colleagues to give it a try. It changed his life. Not overnight\, but by allowing every drop of mindfulness\, squeezed into every frantic day\, to permeate through his previously sceptical being!Now\, Chris predominantly shares mindfulness with people living with cancer and their carers and leads on this both for the National Centre of Integrative Medicine as well as providing support for fellow teachers via BAMBA. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nHow to book\n\n\n\nPlease note\, we ask all those who book a place on this course to fill in an an application form that will be sent to the facilitator. Click this link for the form. We will send applicants the booking link when it goes live. \n\n\n\n\n\nIf you have any queries please contact us at spft.smc@nhs.net. \n\n\n\nThe cost of the eight-week course is £250. We also offer a choice of two other options: \n\n\n\n\n£275 – Supporting rate. You can support other participants to attend who are on a low income.\n\n\n\n£225 – Supported rate\, if you are on a low income and can’t afford the general admission price.\n\n\n\n\nAs part of our equity\, diversity and inclusion policy\, we also have a limited number of concessionary tickets available on a first-come\, first-served basis. These are for people who are facing acute financial hardship and who would otherwise not be able to attend. To request a concession ticket please email spft.smc@nhs.net. \n\n\n\nWe are striving to make our courses accessible for all. If you have additional needs or learning styles\, please let us know so we can support you.  
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/mindfulness-for-living-with-cancer-eight-week-course-thursday-evenings/
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CATEGORIES:Course,Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy
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