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SUMMARY:Compassionate Leadership Training course for health and social care leaders -Wednesday afternoon
DESCRIPTION:Compassionate Leadership Training for health and social care leaders. Compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. \n\n\n\nSix online weekly two-hour sessions from 22 April until 3 June (no session on 27 May). Following this\, there will be monthly follow-up sessions to review our learning and practice. The dates for these are currently being organised.  \n\n\n\nOverview \n\n\n\nAt the heart of compassion is the notion that everyone experiences difficulty\, and that we can all play a role in alleviating our own difficulties and those of others. Whether this is compassion for ourselves or the people we lead\, people who lead us\, colleagues or service users. We won’t always feel like helping and will sometimes be tired or overwhelmed or unable to connect. \n\n\n\nAlthough it helps to have positive feelings\, we do not have to feel compassion to be compassionate. We can recognise our physical and mental state\, resource ourselves as best we can\, and respond from our firm compassionate intention\, rather than from impulse or intense emotion. \n\n\n\nHow does this translate into compassion in health\, social care and other organisations? How might we think about compassionate leadership\, working with colleagues\, service users and their friends and families? Prof Michael West has spent his career answering this question\, pointing to research that shows how compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. In short\, compassion is essential to high quality healthcare. \n\n\n\nWho is the course for?\n\n\n\nThe course is for anyone in a leadership role in a health and social care organisation\, recognising that leadership occurs throughout health and social care roles\, and at different levels of seniority.  \n\n\n\nWhat is the format of the course?\n\n\n\nThe course combines in-session mindfulness and compassion practice with reflection and discussion\, as well as an invitation for home mindfulness and compassion practice to help cultivate compassion for ourselves and the people we lead and work with. \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nClara Strauss\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClara is Co-Lead (Research) for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. She is a consultant clinical psychologist\, mindfulness teacher and clinical researcher. In her research\, Clara is particularly interested in developing and evaluating new forms of mindfulness-based intervention\, especially for those people who may not be willing or able to access MBCT. Along with other members of her research team\, Clara has been evaluating mindfulness courses for people experiencing depression\, for people distressed by hearing voices and for people experiencing obsessive-compulsive disorder.  \n\n\n\n\nNicky Mouat\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicky is a Mental Health Nurse and Mindfulness teacher. She works in the NHS at Pavilions Drug and Alcohol Service\, where she has been facilitating Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention courses\, and holding a weekly drop in for Service. Users and Staff. She has been teaching MBCT for the Wellbeing Service\, and Recovery College in Brighton. She was also part of the Myriad Mindfulness in Schools Research Project\, and was involved in teaching Mindfulness for Life to teachers in Sussex Schools. She has a particular interest in working with Service Users with ‘Dual Diagnosis’ (Substance Misuse and Mental Health Issues)\, and the way that Mindfulness can be helpful to this client group. \n\n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nPlease note\, we ask all those who book a place on this course to fill in an application form here that will be sent to the facilitator. If you haven’t already\, please head here to the fill in the form. \n\n\n\nThe cost of this course is £200.  You can secure your place using the form below. \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.  
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LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Compassionate Leadership Training for health and social care leaders on Monday afternoons
DESCRIPTION:Compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. \n\n\n\nThere are six online sessions on Mondays from 9 February until 16 March. Following this\, there will be monthly follow-up sessions to review our learning and practice. The dates for this are currently being organised.  \n\n\n\nOverview\n\n\n\nAt the heart of compassion is the notion that everyone experiences difficulty\, and that we can all play a role in alleviating our own difficulties and those of others. Whether this is compassion for ourselves\, the people we lead\, colleagues or service users. We won’t always feel like helping and will sometimes be tired or overwhelmed or unable to connect. Although it helps to have positive feelings\, we do not have to feel compassion to be compassionate. We can recognise our physical and mental state\, resource ourselves as best we can\, and respond from our firm compassionate intention\, rather than from impulse or intense emotion. \n\n\n\nHow does this translate into compassion in health and social care organisations? How might we think about compassionate leadership\, working with colleagues\, service users and their friends and families? Prof Michael West has spent his career answering this question\, pointing to research that shows how compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. In short\, compassion is essential to high quality healthcare. \n\n\n\nDr Robert Marx and Professor Clara Strauss have designed a training programme of six weekly sessions\, lasting two hours each. \n\n\n\nFind out more about Compassionate Leadership Training here. Hear from participants who have done the training in this short video. \n\n\n\nWho is the course for?\n\n\n\nThe course is for anyone in a leadership role within health and social care. It will combine experiential practice and reflection\, as well as home practice to help cultivate compassion for ourselves and the people we lead. \n\n\n\nCourse requirements\n\n\n\nTo participate in this course you will need to be able to attend all six sessions. You will need to use Zoom and to be in a private space (not in an open plan office) with the camera on throughout the sessions. This will help you and others to feel more comfortable and able to participate freely. A link will be supplied ahead of the course starting so you can check your equipment is working. \n\n\n\nPlease take some time to check that the technical aspects of joining on the Zoom link all work for you and make sure you read the guidelines here ahead of the first session. \n\n\n\nCertificate of attendance\n\n\n\nAttendance is required for all six sessions of this course. If you attend a minimum of four sessions\, you can request a Certificate of Attendance on completion of the course. You can request the certificate by dropping us a line at spft.smc@nhs.net. \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nRuth Sequeira\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuth Sequeira is a senior trainer\, supervisor\, and mindfulness teacher for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. She is also a psychological therapist and the mindfulness and compassion training and retreat lead at the Mindfulness Network. Ruth has a history of working in mental health services and until recently worked as a Clinical Lead in the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Sussex. Ruth has a longstanding interest in mindfulness\, meditation and movement\, and is passionate about increasing access to mindfulness courses in different populations. \n\n\n\n\nCatherine Cameron\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCatherine is a clinical psychologist working within the community-based eating disorders service. She has a particular interest in self-compassion in eating disorders treatments. She co-facilitates the mindful self-compassion course for staff with Robert Marx having trained to facilitate the MSC course in 2014 and before that running MBCT-based Mindfulness for Pain courses in Hove Polyclinic. She is also involved in the mindfulness all day retreats run for those who have attended the eight-week courses within Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. \n\n\n\n\nAs a BAMBA UK registered teacher\, she follows the Good Practice Guidelines\, receives supervision for her teaching\, and attends regular retreats and training. \n\n\n\nWaiting list\n\n\n\nThis course is now full. If you would like to be added to a waiting list\, we can let you know if a space becomes available. We can also let you know as soon as our next course is available to book. Please drop us a line at spft.smc@nhs.net
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/compassionate-leadership-training-for-health-and-social-care-leaders/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Compassion,Workplace
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SUMMARY:Compassionate Leadership Training for health and social care leaders on Tuesday afternoons
DESCRIPTION:Compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. \n\n\n\nSix online sessions on Tuesdays from 7 October until 18 November (no session on 28 October). \n\n\n\nFollowing this\, there will be follow-up sessions to review our learning and practice on  \n\n\n\n\nMonday 8 December from 4 to 5pm\n\n\n\nThursday 14 January from 3 to 4pm\n\n\n\nTuesday 10 February from 3 to 4pm\n\n\n\nThursday 12 March from 4 to 5pm         \n\n\n\n\nOverview\n\n\n\nAt the heart of compassion is the notion that everyone experiences difficulty\, and that we can all play a role in alleviating our own difficulties and those of others. Whether this is compassion for ourselves\, the people we lead\, colleagues or service users. We won’t always feel like helping and will sometimes be tired or overwhelmed or unable to connect. Although it helps to have positive feelings\, we do not have to feel compassion to be compassionate. We can recognise our physical and mental state\, resource ourselves as best we can\, and respond from our firm compassionate intention\, rather than from impulse or intense emotion. \n\n\n\nHow does this translate into compassion in health and social care organisations? How might we think about compassionate leadership\, working with colleagues\, service users and their friends and families? Prof Michael West has spent his career answering this question\, pointing to research that shows how compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. In short\, compassion is essential to high quality healthcare. \n\n\n\nDr Robert Marx and Professor Clara Strauss have designed a training programme of six weekly sessions\, lasting two hours each. \n\n\n\nFind out more about Compassionate Leadership Training here. Hear from participants who have done the training in this short video. \n\n\n\nWho is the course for?\n\n\n\nThe course is for anyone in a leadership role within health and social care. It will combine experiential practice and reflection\, as well as home practice to help cultivate compassion for ourselves and the people we lead. \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nClara Strauss\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClara is Co-Lead (Research) for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. She is a consultant clinical psychologist\, mindfulness teacher and clinical researcher. In her research\, Clara is particularly interested in developing and evaluating new forms of mindfulness-based intervention\, especially for those people who may not be willing or able to access MBCT. Along with other members of her research team\, Clara has been evaluating mindfulness courses for people experiencing depression\, for people distressed by hearing voices and for people experiencing obsessive-compulsive disorder. \n\n\n\nNicky Mouat\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicky is a Registered Nurse and Mental Health Practitioner with more than thirty years of experience working in both mental health and general nursing for the NHS and equivalent\, in the UK and Australia. \n\n\n\nShe completed her mindfulness training at the Sussex Mindfulness Centre in 2015 after finding mindfulness practice transformative in her personal life. She is now a freelance mindfulness practitioner and teaches mindfulness for wellbeing\, depression\, addiction\, and long-term health conditions in the NHS and charity settings. She is also a supervisor\, assessor and trainer of mindfulness teachers. She has a Masters Degree in Medical Anthropology\, and specialised in how experiences of trauma are experienced and communicated across cultures. \n\n\n\nAs a BAMBA UK registered teacher\, she follows the Good Practice Guidelines\, receives supervision for her teaching\, and attends regular retreats and training. \n\n\n\nApply and booking\n\n\n\nPlease note\, this course in now fully booked. You can book into the next one here.
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LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Mindfulness\, heartfulness and compassion: a dialogue with faith leaders
DESCRIPTION:A one-day symposium in Brighton exploring mindfulness\, heartfulness and compassion-based practices with faith leaders. \n\n\n\nWhat is the symposium about?\n\n\n\nDuring the day\, representatives from many of the major faiths will share mindfulness\, heartfulness and compassion practices from their traditions. We will then engage in a dialogue about what unites us and what we can learn from one another.  See the programme below.  \n\n\n\nContemporary mindfulness\, heartfulness and compassion-based practices derive predominantly from established spiritual pathways or religious traditions. However\, in the secularised workplaces in which they are often delivered\, the religion has been necessarily stripped away from the practices.  \n\n\n\nWhile this makes them more accessible to people who are not part of any religion\, the danger is that by taking them out of their contexts and communities these practices may become technical\, individualised and self-serving\, losing their deeper meaning and their more profound capacity for change and connection.   \n\n\n\nWe need to be careful that our secularised inclusiveness does not exclude the diversity offered by religious and spiritual traditions and the people affiliated to them\, on whose shoulders these contemporary practices rest. Increasingly\, we recognise that passing off something that belongs to the wisdom of often non-Western\, non-white cultures as a new\, scientific discovery can be unacceptable cultural appropriation.  \n\n\n\nBy restricting conversations about these depth foundations\, we miss an opportunity to find rich connections and understandings across many different faiths that have meditation and the cultivation of qualities such as presence\, kindness and compassion at the heart of what they do. At a time in the world where religion can be the cause of division and tribalism\, this opportunity to connect and build understanding in this domain seems more important than ever. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWho is this for?\n\n\n\nAnyone interested in the roots of mindfulness. Everyone is welcome\, from any faith or none. \n\n\n\nThe format of the day\n\n\n\n9.00 Registration \n\n\n\n9.30 Introduction and framing of the day: Robert Marx\, Co-Lead of Sussex Mindfulness Centre  \n\n\n\nPractices: The practices follow a simple format including a five minute introduction followed by 15 minutes of practice. \n\n\n\n9.45 Christian Catholic: Liz Lord \n\n\n\n10.05 Tibetan Buddhist: Paul Johanson \n\n\n\n10.25 Sufi: Binah Taylor \n\n\n\n10.45 Tea \n\n\n\n11.15 Heartfulness/Raja yoga: Rosalind Pearmain \n\n\n\n11.35 Pagan: Lyn Baylis \n\n\n\n12.05 Jewish/Ha Makom: Miri Cohen \n\n\n\n12.25 Quaker: Jason Evans \n\n\n\n12.45 Responses Robert Marx \n\n\n\n1.00 Lunch : Bring your own and we’ll sit together \n\n\n\n\n2.00 Panel/Round table: A panel discussion two questions: What was striking from other people’s talks and practices? What are you curious about? \n\n\n\n\n\nRev Anthea Ballam\, Chair Interfaith Contact Group\, priest\n\n\n\nProf Justin Meggitt\, Dept of Theology\, University of Cambridge\n\n\n\nDr Chris McDermott\, former Sussex University Chaplain\, Anglican priest and Zen practitioner\n\n\n\nRabbi Danny Newman\, Executive Director of HaMakom\, Rabbi of two Progressive Jewish communities in London and a life coach\n\n\n\nSensei Dheeresh Turnbull\, Zen monk\, author and Cognitive Behaviour Therapist\n\n\n\nDr Rosalind Pearmain\, Heartfulness trainer\, Retired psychotherapy lecturer\, trainer and researcher\n\n\n\nLyn Baylis\, Chair\, The Pagan Seminary and Pagan Spiritual Advisor\n\n\n\nIbrahim Karadol\,  Dialogue Society branch manager\n\n\n\n\n2.45 Drawing out key themes for further (small group) discussion \n\n\n\n3.00 Tea \n\n\n\n3.30 Theme-based discussion \n\n\n\n4.30 Gather learning\, appreciations\, and considering what next facilitated by Robert Marx \n\n\n\n4.50 Practice led by Robert Marx  \n\n\n\n5.00  End \n\n\n\nThe hosts\n\n\n\nThe Sussex Mindfulness Centre is hosting the day with the Interfaith Contact Group of Brighton and Hove. \n\n\n\nThe Interfaith Contact Group of Brighton and Hove creates opportunities and safe spaces for people of different faiths and none to meet and talk. Most of their members and friends belong to faith groups but many don’t. \n\n\n\nThe Sussex Mindfulness Centre aims to improve the wellbeing and mental health of all people who can benefit from mindfulness. We do this by running mindfulness and compassion programmes\, training teachers\, and conducting research. \n\n\n\n\n\nThe facilitators\n\n\n\nRev Anthea Ballam\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRev Anthea Ballam is an interfaith minister\, writer and celebrant. She has served as Chaplain to the Mayor of Brighton and Hove on two occasions and is currently the Chair of The Interfaith Contact Group of Brighton and Hove. Anthea is the author of two books of prayer: “Moving Prayers and Quiet Meditations” and “Words for Funerals”; also a history book “Mayflower: The Voyage the Changed the World.” \n\n\n\nBefore becoming an interfaith minister\, Anthea was a journalist and ran her own marketing company. Her interests include photography\, art and music. \n\n\n\nLyn Baylis\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLyn Baylis is a mother\, grandmother and a great grandmother. She has been a Pagan Priestess for over 50 years\, holding senior roles in several organisations and is now Pagan Spiritual Advisor for Sussex NHS Community Foundation Trust\, as well as being a Founding member and Chair of The Pagan Seminary. Having worked as a Prison Chaplain for over 10 years before becoming a Hospital and Hospice Chaplain\, she is determined that\, all spiritualities should have a platform and as the popularity of nature-based beliefs increase\, there should be sufficiently skilled Pagan Chaplains to tend to the spiritual and practical needs of this growing community. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMiri B Cohen\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMiri has been practising meditation for over 25 years\, mainly in the Insight tradition. She is an NHS-trained Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy/Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction teacher and a graduate of Yesod\, the Jewish meditation programme from Or HaLev and the Institute for Jewish Spirituality. Miri facilitates meditation groups in person and online for HaMakom and secular organisations and gives one to one sessions. She is a member of the Community Dharma Leader system at Gaia House\, Devon\, UK. Miri is a student of the late Rob Burbea and his teaching influences her approach.  \n\n\n\nJason Evans\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJason Evans is a member of Sussex West Area Quaker Meeting and worships at Brighton. He joined the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 2002 and has served as Elder\, Overseer (now called Pastoral Friends) and as a member of the Clerking team. He has been the Quaker Chaplain at the University of Sussex since 2015. He is interested in lucid dreaming and plays jazz harmonica. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPaul Johanson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBrought up as a Roman Catholic\, Paul began training in the Rinzai Zen Buddhist tradition in 1988 at the Hannya temple in London. The temple was run by the London Zen Society and affiliated to Ryutaku-Ji\, a monastery in Mishima\, Japan founded by Hakuin-Zenji\, one of the great masters of Rinzai Zen. In 1991\, Paul began sitting with a small\, local group called Maitrikara (a Sanskrit word\, meaning ‘source of loving kindness’)\, which is affiliated to the “Centre d’Etudes de Chanteloube” situated in the Dordogne region of France. Chanteloube was founded with the inspiration and guidance of three great masters of Tibetan Buddhism: Kyabje Dudjom Rinpoche; Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche; and Kyabje Kangyur Rinpoche. Paul considers Jigme Khyentse Rinpoche to be his main teacher and has been practising under his guidance since I first met him in 1992. \n\n\n\nPaul still feels a strong connection to his Christian roots and to his early Zen training. He has worked in health and social care since 1991\, mainly in the field of mental health. He currently works as a psychotherapist in private practice. \n\n\n\nLiz Lord\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiz practiced awareness\, appreciation and compassion since childhood\, as part of a Christian upbringing and in my mid 20’s completed my first 8-day silent guided retreat with the Jesuits. She has regularly attended long silent retreats from different traditions at Gaia House\, Dzochen Beara and St Beuno’s as well as themed retreats in a number of different places\, both in the UK and abroad. She has undertaken long-distanced walking retreats throughout her adult life\, often following ancient pilgrimage routes. \n\n\n\nShe was introduced to mindfulness while working with teenagers in a Pupil Referral Unit in Salford in 2007.  Liz is currently a tutor on the MSt in Mindfulness at the University of Oxford. Since 2015 she has been a senior researcher in the Dept of Psychiatry\, working on the MYRIAD project which has been investigating all aspects of mindfulness in education.  She works freelance as part of the teaching\, training and mentoring team at the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation (OMF).  \n\n\n\nRobert Marx\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert is Co-Lead (Training) for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. He is a consultant clinical psychologist and has been involved in running mindfulness groups for staff and patients since 2006. He also trains and supervises others doing mindfulness work. He is interested in relational mindfulness and in adaptations of Mindfulness-based Interventions using compassion practices. \n\n\n\nChris McDermott\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Chris McDermott\, an Anglican priest\, Third Order Franciscan\, and Zen practitioner\, spent 27 years as a community mediator in East London before becoming the University Chaplain and Lead Faith Advisor at the University of Sussex in 2014. He is also an ADRg qualified workplace mediator. After retiring as Chaplain\, he completed his Ph.D. research on dual religious belonging\, especially Buddhist Christian belonging. His thesis is entitled\, ‘Gillian Rose and the Question of Dual Religious Belonging: On the Difficulty of Being Buddhist and Christian’. His essay\, ‘Aporetic Belonging: Thinking Buddhist Christian Practice with Gillian Rose’ is published in the 2024 edition of the Buddhist Christian Studies Journal\, published by the University of Hawaii. \n\n\n\n\n\nJustin Meggitt\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJustin Meggitt is Professor of the Study of Religion\, at Cambridge university and Visiting Researcher\, Department of Ethnology\, History of Religion\, and Gender Studies at Stockholm University.  Justin has been employed in the academic study of religion for over three decades in various universities in the UK\, the US\, and Sweden. Although his interests range widely\, he has always had a particular fascination with the relationships between religions\, conflict and peacemaking\, in all their different expressions\, from the interpersonal to the global. He is especially passionate about understanding how countercultural religious movements perpetuate and challenge violence\, and are also so often the victims of it. \n\n\n\n\n\nRabbi Danny Newman\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRabbi Danny is the Founder and Executive Director of HaMakom. He has been studying and teaching meditation\, Jewish spirituality\, Jewish thought and mysticism for over twenty years and is currently the Rabbi of two Progressive Jewish communities in London. Danny also works as a Life Coach and Facilitator of Men’s Groups and Men’s Retreats. He read Jewish Studies at Oxford University\, studied at several Yeshivot in Israel and trained in psychotherapy. Previously he worked for many years in Corporate Law\, Finance and Venture Capital in the City of London. He is married and has two young sons. \n\n\n\nRosalind Pearmain\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRosalind Pearmain\, Ph.D.\, M.A.\, Dip.Ed.\, B.A. Hons has been practising and sharing Heartfulness as a trainer for more than forty years. In her professional carrier she has included training in the public sector\, in education and health\, practicing as a UKCP registered psychotherapist. She was a course director for a Master’s level degree in Integrative Psychotherapy training at Regents College\, London. Her book ‘The Heart of Listening: Attentional Qualities in Psychotherapy and Counselling’ (Sage 2001) integrated spiritual\, psychotherapeutic and neuroscientific aspects of the heart). She carried out qualitative studies and published on different aspects of transformation\, and change including meditation. Mainly retired\, she will be finishing teaching qualitative research to psychotherapy trainees shortly and lives in Abingdon. \n\n\n\nBinah Taylor \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBinah Taylor\, MA\, MA\, BACP Snr Accredited was initiated into Sufism\, a mystical path to awakening\, in 1975 by Fazal Inayat-Khan\, who founded the Sufi Way. She worked closely with him until his death in 1990\, and through his encouragement\, undertook psychotherapy training both in California\, where she lived at the time\, and in the UK. She has a private practice in psychotherapy and clinical supervision based in Brighton.  The Sufi message of love\, service and openness to the present moment has been a constant source of guidance – she supports the current Pir\, Elias Amidon\, and contributes to the Living Sufism online series as well as the quarterly Sufi Way journal called Fresh Rain. A nomad at heart Binah has lived and worked in four continents\, giving her a deep appreciation of life’s diversity and expressions of beauty\, often found in unexpected places. She divides her time between UK\, Spain and Hong Kong nurturing her family connections. \n\n\n\nDheeresh Turnbull\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDheeresh Shinkai Turnbull (Sensei) started meditation in 1975\, while on the first year of a Religious Studies degree at Lancaster University.  After trying different kinds\, he settled on Zen in 1982\, and received the Zen precepts from his then teacher\, Genpo Roshi\, in 1988.  He received shukke tokudo (monk ordination) from Genpo in 2010\, and was transmitted as a Zen teacher by his current teacher Jeremy Ryokan Sensei in 2020.  He has been running mindfulness courses since 1999.  He also works as a cognitive behavioural therapist (part-time)\, and is married with children\, grandchildren and a cat (his other teacher).  He has written two books: ‘The CBT-pot’ and ‘The Mindfulness Handbook’\, both of which are under revision\, and is working on a third: ‘Getting to Zen’. \n\n\n\nWhere?\n\n\n\nPlease join us in person at the Friends Meeting House\, Ship street\, Brighton (see below). \n\n\n\n\n\nTicket prices\n\n\n\nTicket prices are to help us cover venue costs. \n\n\n\n\nSupported ticket: £20\n\n\n\nStandard ticket: £30 (please buy this ticket if you can afford it\, to support the Sussex Mindfulness Centre)\n\n\n\n\nWe try to keep prices as low as possible so everyone can come. We are not seeking any profit but we do need to cover (mainly venue) costs.  Please contact us if you would like to come but the price is prohibitive.
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/mindfulness-heartfulness-and-compassion-multi-faith-day/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, Ship Street\, Brighton\, Sussex\, BN1 1AF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Communities,Compassion,Masterclass
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SUMMARY:Compassionate Leadership Training course - Thursday afternoons
DESCRIPTION:Join our six-week Compassionate Leadership Training designed for all health and social care leaders. Compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. \n\n\n\nThe course is made up of six weekly two-hour sessions and further consolidation sessions after the course is complete. This course runs on Thursdays from 3-5pm\, from 30 January 2025 until 13 March 2025. There is no session on 20 February. Following this\, there are several two-hour online consolidation sessions to review practice and learning. All graduates are invited to attend these sessions. See the dates for 2025 below. \n\n\n\nWatch a short (1.5 minute) video to find out more. \n\n\n\nOverview \n\n\n\nAt the heart of compassion is the notion that everyone experiences difficulty and that we can all play a role in alleviating our own difficulties and those of others. Whether this is compassion for ourselves or the people we lead\, people who lead us\, colleagues or service users. We won’t always feel like helping and will sometimes be tired or overwhelmed or unable to connect. \n\n\n\nAlthough it helps to have positive feelings\, we do not have to feel compassion to be compassionate. We can recognise our physical and mental state\, resource ourselves as best we can\, and respond from our firm compassionate intention\, rather than from impulse or intense emotion. \n\n\n\nHow does this translate into compassion in health\, social care\, and other organisations? How might we think about compassionate leadership\, working with colleagues\, service users and their friends and families? Prof. Michael West has spent his career answering this question\, pointing to research that shows how compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. In short\, compassion is essential to high-quality healthcare. \n\n\n\nDr Robert Marx and Professor Clara Strauss have designed this innovative training programme of six weekly sessions\, each lasting two hours\, with an additional follow-on consolidation sessions following the completion of the course. See details below of the dates for optional review and practice sessions. \n\n\n\nWho is the course for?\n\n\n\nThe course is for anyone in a leadership role in a health and social care organisation\, recognising that leadership occurs throughout health and social care roles\, and at different levels of seniority.  \n\n\n\nWhat is the format of the course?\n\n\n\nThe course combines in-session mindfulness and compassion practice with reflection and discussion\, as well as an invitation for home mindfulness and compassion practice to help cultivate compassion for ourselves and the people we lead and work with. \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nRobert Marx \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Marx is co-lead for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre and leads the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in Talking Therapies in NHS services training centres collaboration. He is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist and has been teaching mindfulness to patients and staff in the NHS for 18 years. He teaches MBCT and Mindful Self-Compassion. He has been practising Buddhist meditation for over 30 years\, initially in the Theravadan tradition and then in the Tibetan tradition. He is passionate about building compassionate cultures in organisations and about integrating relational and mindful approaches to work. \n\n\n\nRuth Sequeira\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuth Sequeira is a senior trainer\, supervisor\, and mindfulness teacher for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. She is also a psychological therapist and the mindfulness and compassion training and retreat lead at the Mindfulness Network. Ruth has a history of working in mental health services and until recently worked as a Clinical Lead in the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Sussex. Ruth has a longstanding interest in mindfulness\, meditation and movement\, and is passionate about increasing access to mindfulness courses in different populations. \n\n\n\nReview and practice dates\n\n\n\nWe are offering several dates for consolidation of learning\, to allow flexibility. Participants may attend as many or as few of these consolidation sessions as they wish.   \n\n\n\nMonday 7 April 4.00 – 5.00pmThursday 8 May 4.00 – 5.00pm Wednesday 4 June 1.00 – 2.00pm Friday 4 July 2.00 – 3.00pmThursday 18 September 4.00 – 5.00pm Wednesday 15 October 4.00 – 5.00pm Tuesday 18 November 1.00 – 2.00pmMonday 8 December 4.00 – 5.00pm \n\n\n\nApply and book your place\n\n\n\nYou can book your place below. \n\n\n\nPlease note\, we ask all those who book a place on this training programme to fill in an application form that will be sent to the facilitators. If you haven’t already\, please head here to fill in the form.
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/compassionate-leadership-training-course-thursdays/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Compassion,Course,SPFT staff only,Workplace
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20241015T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T173343
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SUMMARY:Compassionate Leadership Training course - Tuesdays
DESCRIPTION:Compassionate Leadership Training for health and social care leaders. Compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. \n\n\n\nSix online weekly two-hour sessions from Tuesday 15 October until 26 November on Tuesdays from 3.00-5.00pm. There is no session on 29 October. There is a two-hour online consolidation session on 4 February 2025 to review learning and practice. \n\n\n\nOverview \n\n\n\nAt the heart of compassion is the notion that everyone experiences difficulty\, and that we can all play a role in alleviating our own difficulties and those of others. Whether this is compassion for ourselves or the people we lead\, people who lead us\, colleagues or service users. We won’t always feel like helping and will sometimes be tired or overwhelmed or unable to connect. \n\n\n\nAlthough it helps to have positive feelings\, we do not have to feel compassion to be compassionate. We can recognise our physical and mental state\, resource ourselves as best we can\, and respond from our firm compassionate intention\, rather than from impulse or intense emotion. \n\n\n\nHow does this translate into compassion in health\, social care and other organisations? How might we think about compassionate leadership\, working with colleagues\, service users and their friends and families? Prof Michael West has spent his career answering this question\, pointing to research that shows how compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. In short\, compassion is essential to high quality healthcare. \n\n\n\nDr Robert Marx and Professor Clara Strauss have designed a training programme of six weekly sessions\, each lasting two hours\, with an additional follow-on two hour session a couple of months following the completion of the course. \n\n\n\nWho is the course for?\n\n\n\nThe course is for anyone in a leadership role in a health and social care organisation\, recognising that leadership occurs throughout health and social care roles\, and at different levels of seniority.  \n\n\n\nWhat is the format of the course?\n\n\n\nThe course combines in-session mindfulness and compassion practice with reflection and discussion\, as well as an invitation for home mindfulness and compassion practice to help cultivate compassion for ourselves and the people we lead and work with. \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nClara Strauss\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClara is Co-Lead (Research) for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. She is a consultant clinical psychologist\, mindfulness teacher and clinical researcher. In her research\, Clara is particularly interested in developing and evaluating new forms of mindfulness-based intervention\, especially for those people who may not be willing or able to access MBCT. Along with other members of her research team\, Clara has been evaluating mindfulness courses for people experiencing depression\, for people distressed by hearing voices and for people experiencing obsessive-compulsive disorder.  \n\n\n\nRobert Marx \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Marx is co-lead for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre and leads the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in Talking Therapies in NHS services training centres collaboration. He is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist and has been teaching mindfulness to patients and staff in the NHS for 18 years. He teaches MBCT and Mindful Self-Compassion. He has been practising Buddhist meditation for over 30 years\, initially in the Theravadan tradition and then in the Tibetan tradition. He is passionate about building compassionate cultures in organisations and about integrating relational and mindful approaches to work. \n\n\n\nNicky Mouat\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNicky is a Mental Health Nurse and Mindfulness teacher. She works in the NHS at Pavilions Drug and Alcohol Service\, where she has been facilitating Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention courses\, and holding a weekly drop in for Service. Users and Staff. She has been teaching MBCT for the Wellbeing Service\, and Recovery College in Brighton. She was also part of the Myriad Mindfulness in Schools Research Project\, and was involved in teaching Mindfulness for Life to teachers in Sussex Schools. She has a particular interest in working with Service Users with ‘Dual Diagnosis’ (Substance Misuse and Mental Health Issues)\, and the way that Mindfulness can be helpful to this client group. \n\n\n\nApply and book your place\n\n\n\nYou can book your place below. \n\n\n\nPlease note\, we ask all those who book a place on this training programme to fill in an application form that will be sent to the facilitators. If you haven’t already\, please head here to fill in the form.  \n\n\n\nThere are a limited number of free places for staff at the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust which are offered on a first-come first-served basis. Fill in the form first\, and we’ll let you know if you have a free place.
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/compassionate-leadership-training-course-tuesdays/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Compassion,Course,SPFT staff only,Workplace
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240921T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240921T163000
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SUMMARY:Self-compassion and burnout workshop with Chris Germer
DESCRIPTION:The Sussex Mindfulness Centre are pleased to welcome Chris Germer to the UK to present the “Self-compassion and burnout” workshop in Brighton. \n\n\n\nMany of us would say we’re burned out on the news or Zoom meetings. However\, when burnout strikes\, it’s hard to do much of anything. We feel drained\, empty\, irritable\, or useless. We’re also likely to blame ourselves for feeling this way. Have you been there\, perhaps during the pandemic\, or do you know someone who has been burned out? That’s highly likely because studies show that 25-75% of workers around the world experience burnout symptoms. \n\n\n\nBurnout happens when our work-life balance gets out of whack\, usually through no fault of our own. We’re just doing the best we can. Common causes of burnout include excessive workload\, lack of support\, unfairness at the workplace\, and moral distress. People who care deeply about their work are also more likely to get burned out\, as are those who base their self-worth on their work\, have a tendency to sacrifice themselves\, or criticize themselves when things go wrong. \n\n\n\nFortunately\, self-compassion is an antidote to burnout\, and there are many research studies that support this claim. We also have an empirically-supported training for healthcare workers derived from the Mindful Self-compassion (MSC) programme—Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities. Recently\, Kristin Neff and Chris Germer wrote a new book\, to be published in September 2024\, titled The Mindful Self-Compassion Toolkit for Burnout. This book\, written in an easy style for exhausted readers\, adapts MSC concepts and practices specifically for burnout.  \n\n\n\nThis experiential workshop consists of talks\, meditation\, exercises and discussion. It is designed for people with some familiarity with self-compassion concepts.  \n\n\n\n\nI am delighted to be returning to Brighton\, UK to share with you the work Kristin Neff and I have been doing on burnout\,Since COVID\, burnout in healthcare and other occupations has become a major issue that threatens the wellbeing of staff who work in these ever-stretched systems as well as the ability of the systems themselves to function effectively.  \n\n\n\nRecent research shows that burnout among doctors is even increasing. Fortunately\, the evidence is also clear that self-compassion is an antidote to burnout. Our new book on the self-compassion for burnout explores how individuals and systems facing burnout can resource themselves in these challenging times. \nChris Germer\n\n\n\nChris Germer\, PhD is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. He co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program with Dr. Kristin Neff in 2010\, which has been taught to over 250\,000 people worldwide. They co-authored two books on MSC\, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Programme. \n\n\n\nDr. Germer spends most of his time lecturing and leading workshops around the world on mindfulness and self-compassion. He is the author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion and he co-edited two influential volumes on therapy: Mindfulness and Psychotherapy\, and Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy. Dr. Germer is a founding faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy\, Cambridge MA\, USA as well as the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion\, Harvard Medical School. He maintains a small\, online psychotherapy practice. www.chrisgermer.com www.centerformsc.org \n\n\n\nYou can book your ticket here.
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/self-compassion-and-burnout-with-chris-germer/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, Ship Street\, Brighton\, Sussex\, BN1 1AF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Beginners,Compassion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240920T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T173343
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SUMMARY:Mindful Self-Compassion teacher networking day with Chris Germer
DESCRIPTION:Chris Germer joins us for a Mindful Self-Compassion networking event in Brighton. All teachers trained to run the eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion course are invited to attend.  \n\n\n\nChris Germer will be with us to support the development of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teachers. This is in addition to the compassion and burnout event which takes place the following day (Saturday 21st September 2024) and is open to everyone. This in-person networking event is open to all teachers trained to lead Mindful Self-Compassion courses based in the UK and Europe. The day will explore what teachers need personally and professionally. We will have a chance through practice and inquiry to consider how we might best resource ourselves.  \n\n\n\nSupported by Chris\, this is a great post-pandemic opportunity to see each other again and to replenish our connections and networks. We will take some time to think together about the future of Mindful Self-Compassion in this part of the world\, and consider what is needed to support MSC to enable it continue and thrive. \n\n\n\nChris Germer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChris Germer PhD is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. He co-developed the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program with Dr. Kristin Neff in 2010\, which has been taught to over 250\,000 people worldwide. They co-authored two books on MSC\, The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Programme. \n\n\n\nDr. Germer spends most of his time lecturing and leading workshops around the world on mindfulness and self-compassion. He is the author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion and he co-edited two influential volumes on therapy: Mindfulness and Psychotherapy\, and Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy. Dr. Germer is a founding faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy\, Cambridge MA\, USA as well as the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion\, Harvard Medical School. He maintains a small\, online psychotherapy practice. www.chrisgermer.com www.centerformsc.org \n\n\n\nChris Germer is providing his time free. The ticket price of £25 will help us cover the venue costs. You will need to bring or buy your lunch and pay for accommodation\, if that’s needed.    \n\n\n\nYou can book your ticket here.
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/mindful-self-compassion-teacher-networking-day-with-chris-germer/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, Ship Street\, Brighton\, Sussex\, BN1 1AF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Compassion,Teacher training
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240604T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240604T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T173343
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SUMMARY:Altruism: the best response to the suffering of our times
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk by the man  dubbed the happiest person in the world. Writer\, humanitarian and Buddhist monk\, Matthieu Ricard discusses how altruism can be the best response to the suffering of our times.  \n\n\n\nMatthieu Ricard has closely collaborated with neuroscience research on the short- and long-term effects of mind training on the brain\, the immune system and our base line level of wellbeing. He is author of over 20 books\, including “Altruism: The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World”. The dialogue with his father in “The Monk and the Philosopher” was a best-seller in Europe and was translated into 21 languages\, and “Altruism: How compassion can change your life and the world\,” to which he devoted five continuous years of research.   \n\n\n\nMore about Matthieu Ricard\n\n\n\nHe is the son of the late Jean-François Revel\, a renowned French philosopher and Yahne le Toumelin\, an abstract painter and Tibetan Buddhist nun. He received a PhD degree in cell genetics from the Pasteur Institute in 1972 after which he practised with some of the greatest Tibetan Buddhist masters of the twentieth century\, living mainly in the Himalayas for half a century\, including a total of 5 years in solitary meditation in various hermitages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatthieu Ricard received the French National Order of Merit and the Legion of Honour\, the highest French decoration\, for his humanitarian work in the East with Karuna-Shechen\, the non-profit organization he co-founded in 2000\, which now helps over 400\,000 people every year\, and to which he dedicated the totality of the royalties of his books. Fifty per cent of the proceeds of this talk will also go to support Karuna-Sechen. Since 1989\, he has acted as the French interpreter for the 14th Dalai Lama. He has been a Board member of the Mind and Life Institute which is devoted to collaborations between scientists\, Buddhist scholars and meditators\, led by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He has spoken at many international forums\, including the World Happiness Forum\, the United Nations\, The World Government Summit and Les Journées Émergences. \n\n\n\nHalf of all proceeds from this talk will go to Matthieu Ricard’s charity Karuna-Shechen. The other half supports the Sussex Mindfulness Centre to increase access to mindfulness. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTicket prices\n\n\n\nGeneral voluntary admission is £12.00\, or pay what you can by selecting the ‘free’ ticket option and adding a donation. Thank you.
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/altruism-the-best-response-to-the-suffering-of-our-times/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Compassion,Talk
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20240514T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20240514T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T173343
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SUMMARY:Compassionate Leadership Training course - Tuesdays
DESCRIPTION:Compassionate Leadership Training for health and social care leaders. Compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. \n\n\n\nSix online weekly two-hour sessions from Tuesday 14 May until 2 July 2024 (no sessions 28 May and 18 June).  There is also a two-hour online consolidation session on 24 September 2024 from 15.00 to 17.00 to review our learning and practice. \n\n\n\nOverview \n\n\n\nAt the heart of compassion is the notion that everyone experiences difficulty\, and that we can all play a role in alleviating our own difficulties and those of others. Whether this is compassion for ourselves or the people we lead\, people who lead us\, colleagues or service users. We won’t always feel like helping and will sometimes be tired or overwhelmed or unable to connect. \n\n\n\nAlthough it helps to have positive feelings\, we do not have to feel compassion to be compassionate. We can recognise our physical and mental state\, resource ourselves as best we can\, and respond from our firm compassionate intention\, rather than from impulse or intense emotion. \n\n\n\nHow does this translate into compassion in health\, social care and other organisations? How might we think about compassionate leadership\, working with colleagues\, service users and their friends and families? Prof Michael West has spent his career answering this question\, pointing to research that shows how compassionate leadership is linked with improved learning and innovation\, and reduced staff stress\, injuries and absenteeism\, and even reduced patient mortality. In short\, compassion is essential to high quality healthcare. \n\n\n\nDr Robert Marx and Professor Clara Strauss have designed a training programme of six weekly sessions\, each lasting two hours\, with an additional follow-on two hour session a couple of months following the completion of the course. \n\n\n\nWho is the course for?\n\n\n\nThe course is for anyone in a leadership role in a health and social care organisation\, recognising that leadership occurs throughout health and social care roles\, and at different levels of seniority.  \n\n\n\nWhat is the format of the course?\n\n\n\nThe course combines in-session mindfulness and compassion practice with reflection and discussion\, as well as an invitation for home mindfulness and compassion practice to help cultivate compassion for ourselves and the people we lead and work with. \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nClara Strauss\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClara is Co-Lead (Research) for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. She is a consultant clinical psychologist\, mindfulness teacher and clinical researcher. In her research\, Clara is particularly interested in developing and evaluating new forms of mindfulness-based intervention\, especially for those people who may not be willing or able to access MBCT. Along with other members of her research team\, Clara has been evaluating mindfulness courses for people experiencing depression\, for people distressed by hearing voices and for people experiencing obsessive-compulsive disorder.  \n\n\n\nRuth Sequeira\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuth Sequeira is as senior trainer\, supervisor and mindfulness teacher for the Sussex Mindfulness Centre. She is also a psychological therapist and the Mindfulness and Compassion Training and Retreat Lead at the Mindfulness Network. Ruth has a history of working in mental health services and until recently worked as a clinical lead in the Child & Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Sussex. Ruth has a longstanding interest in mindfulness\, meditation and movement\, and is passionate about increasing access to mindfulness courses in different populations. \n\n\n\nCatherine Cameron\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCatherine is a clinical psychologist working within the community-based persistent pain team within Sussex Partnership. She has a particular interest in mindfulness and self-compassion in pain. She co-facilitates the mindful self-compassion course for staff with Robert Marx having trained to facilitate the Mindful Self-Compassion course in 2014. Before that Catherine ran the mindfulness-based Mindfulness for Pain courses in Hove Polyclinic. She is also involved in the mindfulness all day retreats run for those who have attended the eight -week courses within Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. \n\n\n\nApply and book your place\n\n\n\nYou can book your place below. \n\n\n\nPlease note\, we ask all those who book a place on this training programme to fill in an application form that will be sent to the facilitators. If you haven’t already\, please head here to fill in the form. If you are a member of staff at the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust\, please fill in the form first\, before paying. There are a limited number of free places for staff that are offered on a first-come first-served basis.
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/compassionate-leadership-training-course-mondays/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Compassion,Workplace
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20230928T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20230928T203000
DTSTAMP:20260429T173343
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SUMMARY:Compassion Cultivation Training course - Thursday evenings
DESCRIPTION:Compassion Cultivation Training is an eight-week course designed at Stanford University in 2009\, by Thupten Jinpa\, Ph.D\, with contributions from the faculty.  \n\n\n\nThe Sussex Mindfulness Centre is hosting this training in Brighton in collaboration with the Compassion Institute.  \n\n\n\nOverview​\n\n\n\nAn eight-week course for the general public\, it draws on insights and techniques from psychology\, neuroscience\, and contemplative practice. The course integrates evidence-based meditation techniques\, interactive discussions and lectures as well as real-world exercises to put learning into practice.  \n\n\n\nThe format of the course?\n\n\n\n\nWeekly two-hour class including lecture\, discussion\, and exercises\n\n\n\nDaily meditation home practice\n\n\n\nReal-world assignments for practicing compassionate thoughts and actions\n\n\n\n\nThis course is taught worldwide and offers practical skills\, tools and knowledge. As a graduate\, you establish the habit of relating to yourself\, others and the world around you from a place of greater understanding\, joy and purpose. \n\n\n\nIt is designed to cultivate the inherent quality of compassion that we as humans all have\, so that it becomes the default stance from which we live and respond in daily life. Compassion for oneself and others is strengthened. Each class includes didactic\, pair/group exercises and contemplative practice. \n\n\n\nThe course integrates evidence-based meditation techniques\, interactive discussions and lectures\, as well as real-world exercises to put learning into practice. \n\n\n\nWhen? \n\n\n\nThursday evenings 6.30-8.30pm starting 28 September 2023. \n\n\n\nWhere?\n\n\n\nBrighton Friends Meeting House\, Ship St\, Brighton BN1 1AF. \n\n\n\nMore details\n\n\n\nLearning objectives\n\n\n\nParticipants will: \n\n\n\n\nDescribe the basic components of mindful awareness\n\n\n\nDescribe the key components of compassion\n\n\n\nApply the practice of setting intentions\n\n\n\nDescribe the dimensions of loving-kindness\n\n\n\nExplain the value of self-compassion\n\n\n\nApply learned compassion skills in everyday and professional life\n\n\n\nApply learned self-compassion skills in everyday and professional life\n\n\n\nDifferentiate between empathy\, compassion\, and empathic distress\n\n\n\nDescribe the key components of common humanity\n\n\n\nDescribe how to establish a daily practice\n\n\n\n\nThe eight-week course includes the following themes: \n\n\n\nWeek 1 Settling and focusing the mindTheme: Settling the mind and becoming more aware \n\n\n\nWeek 2 Loving-kindness and compassion for a loved oneTheme: Settling the mind and becoming more aware \n\n\n\nWeek 3 Compassion for oneself (part 1)Theme: Self-acceptance and being kinder to yourself \n\n\n\nWeek 4 Loving-kindness for oneself (part 2)Theme: Being a friend to yourself\, embracing your natural aspiration for happiness\, and practicing gratitude \n\n\n\nWeek 5 Embracing shared common humanity and developing appreciation of othersTheme: Cultivating a feeling of connection with others; appreciating the contribution of others to our lives \n\n\n\nWeek 6 Cultivating compassion for othersTheme: Broadening the circle of our compassion \n\n\n\nWeek 7 Active compassion practiceTheme: Making your compassion more embodied and active \n\n\n\nWeek 8 Integrated daily compassion cultivation practiceTheme: Integrating compassion into one’s life; merging all the previous steps into a single meditation practice \n\n\n\nThis course is taught worldwide and offers practical skills\, tools and knowledge. As a graduate\, you establish the habit of relating to yourself\, others and the world around you from a place of greater understanding\, joy and purpose. \n\n\n\nFacilitator – Emily Oliver\n\n\n\n\n“My work focuses on bringing people together to realise more compassionate\, creative and sustainable leadership\, cultures and systems. As well as designing and delivering compassion\, mindfulness and collective care courses for the NHS during the peak of the Covid pandemic and aftermath\, I have worked with educators\, students and a range of other purpose-driven organisations. My approach is informed by a masters in Sustainable Leadership and my work at not-for-profit BeyondText focusing on co-production\, mental health and health systems research. I am currently working on research projects with the UK National Health Service (NHS) and Lebanese National Mental Health Programme. My broad background spans working for the public sector and Fortune 500 Global companies\, to purpose-driven start-ups and comic artists.” \nCompassion Cultivation UK Trainer – Emily Oliver\n\n\n\nHow to book\n\n\n\nPlaces are limited so to guarantee a place please book early. The cost is £300.  \n\n\n\nWhat is the Cancellation Policy?\n\n\n\nIn the unlikely event that the event has to be cancelled by us\, we will offer an alternative event\, either face to face or online\, or a refund. Our liability is limited to crediting only our event fees\, and not any personal expenses you may have incurred.
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/compassion-cultivation-training-course/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, Friends Meeting House\, Ship Street\, Brighton\, BN1 1AF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Compassion,Course
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SUMMARY:Compassion in Challenging Times with Dr Thupten Jinpa
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Compassion Institute we are delighted to host an online talk from Dr Thupten Jinpa on “Compassion in Challenging Times.”
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/compassion-in-challenging-times-with-dr-thupten-jinpa/
LOCATION:Friends Meeting House\, Ship Street\, Brighton\, Sussex\, BN1 1AF\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Compassion
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