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SUMMARY:Mindful Self-Compassion course: eight weeks on Saturday mornings
DESCRIPTION:Our eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion course teaches core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to challenges and difficult emotions with care and understanding. \n\n\n\nSaturday mornings from 9:30am to midday (BST).The orientation is on 17 April followed by the eight-week course from 24 April to 19 June 2027 (with a break on 5 June). \n\n\n\nOverview​\n\n\n\nHow we respond to those around us is fundamental to a happy life. We are often encouraged to be kind to people. But in trying to show compassion towards others\, we may forget to look after ourselves. Can we truly be kind to anyone else if we cannot be kind to ourselves? \n\n\n\nIn the Mindful Self-Compassion course we offer ways to meet our own challenges with greater care. Through the course we will learn how to be more mindful of our own feelings in response to others. And we learn how this can help us to be more resilient in difficult situations. We also learn to be less judgemental and more caring. We will learn how this can reduce anxiety\, leaving us more open to making helpful changes in our lives. \n\n\n\nThe course creates a safe\, supportive environment. There are three core components: \n\n\n\n\nmindfulness (being present with whatever is happening)\n\n\n\nself-kindness (treating ourselves with care\, rather than criticism)\n\n\n\ncommon humanity (recognising our suffering as part of the shared human experience)​\n\n\n\n\nSome of the main topics we cover are: \n\n\n\n\nhandling difficult emotions\n\n\n\ntransforming the inner critic\n\n\n\ncultivating core values\n\n\n\nmeeting unmet needs\n\n\n\n\nThe weekly sessions include: \n\n\n\n\nguided meditations\n\n\n\nshort talks\n\n\n\ndiscussion\, including in small groups\n\n\n\nexperiential exercises\n\n\n\nresources to support home practice\n\n\n\n\nThe course creators are Kristin Neff\, researcher in the field of self-compassion. And Christopher Germer\, leader in the integration of mindfulness and psychotherapy. They have each published books on the subject. You can find out more about our Mindful Self-Compassion course here. \n\n\n\nWho is this course for?\n\n\n\nThis course is designed for the general public\, so you do not need to have attended a mindfulness course before. Please note\, this courses may not be suitable for everyone. If you are experiencing mental health issues\, you should talk to your GP about being referred to the appropriate clinical service. \n\n\n\nWhen? \n\n\n\nSaturday mornings from 9.30am to 12pm (BST). The course starts with an orientation of up to 2.5 hours on 17 April 2027 at 9.30am. The course runs from 24 April to 19 June 2027\, with a break on 5 June\, for a total of nine weeks\, including the orientation. \n\n\n\nOrientation: 17 April 2027Session 1: 24 April 2027Session 2: 1 May 2027Session 3: 8 May 2027 Session 4: 15 May 2027 Session 5: 22 May 2027 Session 6: 29 May 2027 Session 7: 12 June 2027 Session 8: 19 June 2027  \n\n\n\nWhere?\n\n\n\nOnline. You will get Zoom log-in details when your place is confirmed. \n\n\n\nThe format of the course?\n\n\n\n\nOrientation session lasting up to two and a half hours.\n\n\n\nEight weekly classes\, each lasting two and a half hours\, with a 15-minute break in the middle.\n\n\n\nThe course follows the programme outlined in the Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook by Christopher Germer and Kristin Neff. It is suggested you buy this book to accompany the course. It’s helpful\, particularly if you have to miss a session\, but it’s not essential.\n\n\n\nDaily meditation home practice of up to 30 minutes is suggested.\n\n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nPaul Johanson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Johanson is a social worker\, mindful self-compassion teacher and cognitive analytic therapist in private practice. He has worked in many areas of health and social care\, including criminal justice\, substance misuse\, serious mental illness\, psychological therapies\, cancer and palliative care. \n\n\n\nPaul has worked as a strategic leader for the NHS in implementing national programmes in mental health\, psychological therapies and patient experience. Paul is a long-term Buddhist practitioner\, beginning his journey over 35 years ago in the Rinzai Zen Buddhist tradition\, and has been a student in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism since 1991. He was the Buddhist Chaplain at the University of Sussex from 2013 to 2025. \n\n\n\nPaul Johanson will be supported by assistant teacher Fiona MacLeod. \n\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 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\nThe cost of the eight-week course is £300. We also offer a choice of two other options: \n\n\n\n\n£325 – Supporting rate. You can support other participants to attend who are on a low income.\n\n\n\n£275 – 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\nYou can book here
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/mindful-self-compassion-course-eight-weeks-on-saturday/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Course,Mindful Self-Compassion
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SUMMARY:Trauma-informed and effective mindfulness teaching
DESCRIPTION:This workshop draws on clinical research and lived experience to work with trauma in mindfulness-based work. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhat is covered?\n\n\n\nThis training will enable you to identify signs of trauma in your participants and provide practical ways of helping participants manage it. It will help you understand what challenges and adaptations you may need to make to your standard teaching to help support people with trauma histories. \n\n\n\nWe approach the training from different perspectives: clinicians working in the field of trauma\, researchers discussing the evidence base for what we know is effective\, and service users sharing their experience of what worked and what didn’t work.  \n\n\n\nThe masterclass will also cover ways of making mindfulness more inclusive and accessible for adults who identify as neurodivergent. \n\n\n\nWho is this for?\n\n\n\nThis masterclass is for those people working in the field of mindfulness. It is part of the core teacher training programmes. It is open to anybody who is trained or training to be mindfulness or mindful self-compassion teachers. \n\n\n\nPlease note\, current trainees on our teacher training courses (MBCT/MBSR and Brief and Adapted Mindfulness Based Interventions) are automatically on the attendance list for this masterclass\, as it forms part of the syllabus. If this is you\, you do not need to book a place. \n\n\n\nThe facilitators\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Marx\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Marx\n\n\n\nRobert Marx is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist and has been teaching mindfulness to patients and staff in the NHS for 18 years. He teaches Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and Mindful Self-Compassion. He has been practising meditation for over 30 years. He is passionate about building compassionate cultures in organisations and about integrating relational and mindful approaches to work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClara Strauss\n\n\n\n\nClara Strauss\n\n\n\nClara is co-lead (Research) for the Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion. 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 (MBI)\, 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 MBIs for people experiencing depression\, for people distressed by hearing voices and for people experiencing obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This research has also included research with NHS staff\, university students and the wider population. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Gilpin\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Gilpin\n\n\n\nRichard is a mindfulness teacher\, counsellor and cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist. He has trained extensively in mindfulness-based practices since the 1990s and has been facilitating MBCT courses since 2007. He is the author of two self-help books: Mindfulness for Black Dogs and Blue Days (2012) and Mindfulness for Unravelling Anxiety (2016). His Masters research on MBCT was published in 2008. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nHannah Rudd\n\n\n\n\n\nHannah Rudd\n\n\n\nHannah is autistic and works as an administrator for Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion. She is a volunteer advocate for Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion and also volunteers as a ward befriender in acute mental health wards at the Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. \n\n\n\nHannah is passionate about helping to make mindfulness and Mindful Self-Compassion courses more neuroinclusive and she is currently undertaking mindfulness teacher training with Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion\, and will soon be training to become a Mindful Self-Compassion teacher.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCertificates\n\n\n\n If you would like a certificate of attendance\, you can request this after the event. \n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nThe cost of the masterclass is £75. We also offer a choice of two other options: \n\n\n\n£100 – Supporting rate. You can support other participants to attend who are on a low income. \n\n\n\n£50 – Supported rate\, if you are on a low income and can’t afford the general admission rate. \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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SUMMARY:Teaching Presence in Relationship: an Interpersonal Mindfulness teacher training retreat
DESCRIPTION:The residential “Teaching Presence in Relationship” teacher training retreat\, is designed to prepare teachers of mindfulness-based programmes to teach the Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme. This teacher training retreat will take place at the Ammerdown Retreat Centre in Somerset\, near Bath\, from 22 to 30 October 2027. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\nOverview\n\n\n\nThe Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme offers participants a systematic method for cultivating mindfulness within the context of their relational lives. Extending practice beyond the personal to the interpersonal and social domains of life allows for healing and growth for everyone.  \n\n\n\n\nThe philosophical and scientific roots of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and other mindfulness based-interventions help reduce suffering and and increase wellbeing. They are a force for good in public health\, offering accessible and empowering ways for people to actively participate in their own health and wellness.  \n\n\n\n\nThe Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme goes a step further\, offering a relational mindfulness practice drawn from the foundations of Insight Dialogue (Interpersonal Meditation). Designed specifically to be practiced within live interaction\, this approach cultivates awareness in the midst of relationship\, fostering insight into the stress\, reactivity\, and habitual patterns that arise in connection with others.  \n\n\n\nTo find out more about how interpersonal mindfulness can be integrated into and benefit both everyday life and therapeutic settings\, you can read the article ‘Cultivating-Mindfulness-in-Relationship’ here. \n\n\n\nWhat’s the format?\n\n\n\n\n\nThe residential training is offered over nine days in person at the Ammerdown Retreat Centre. \n\n\n\nThe first two and a half days of this training are presented primarily in retreat form. During this period\, participants will be immersed\, experientially\, in the nine-session course curriculum. Silence is practiced throughout this part of the retreat except when meditators are guided in dialogue together. This immersive\, experiential approach to learning allows participants to internalise the relational meditation guidelines before going on to teach them.  \n\n\n\nDuring the subsequent six-day training period\, participants engage in relational practice as well as guiding and being guided in teach-backs and in small and large groups. These interactive exercises deepen participants’ experiential understanding of the meditation guidelines\, contemplative themes\, and cultivate their teaching presence and skill. A comprehensive handbook containing the full curriculum will be supplied to participants to support learning and teaching.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe training objectives\n\n\n\nThe training objectives include: \n\n\n\n\nCultivating the skills required to guide Insight Dialogue–based practices\, including guidelines\, themes\, and choreographed relational practice sequences; \n\n\n\nDeveloping a theoretical understanding of relational mindfulness methods\, skills and practices;\n\n\n\nExploring and experiencing the six guidelines of Insight Dialogue within the Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme;\n\n\n\nExpanding and enriching teachers’ embodied capacity as a vehicle to communicate and interact effectively with programme participants;\n\n\n\nDeepening understanding of the dialogue themes included in the programme\, as well as the nature and causes of relational stress.\n\n\n\n\nWho is the training for?\n\n\n\nThe programme is for mindfulness teachers who wish to teach the Interpersonal Mindfulness programme to graduates of an eight-week mindfulness course or to people who have prior meditation experience and the permission of the teacher. The training may also be of interest to health care professionals\, who fulfil the prerequisites\, who wish to deepen their presence in working relationships. \n\n\n\nYou do not need a clinical or psychotherapy background to do this training. \n\n\n\nThe teacher trainers\n\n\n\n\n\nRosalie Dores\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRosalie Dores is a mindfulness teacher\, supervisor and trainer. She teaches Insight Dialogue retreats and Interpersonal Mindfulness courses. She is an associate of The Mindfulness Network CIC.. She serves on the Insight Dialogue Community Teachers’ Council and mentors new teachers. Rosalie is dedicated to offering teachings that engage at the interface between ancient wisdom and the challenges of our modern world. She recognises interpersonal meditation addresses the urgent need for a meditative practice that incorporates the social and interpersonal domains of human experience as intrinsic to awakening. She co-teaches courses and workshops dedicated to raising awareness about climate and social justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhyllis Hicks \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhyllis K Hicks has been practicing insight meditation since 1998.  She is inspired by the transformative power of bringing mindfulness and wisdom to relational practices and everyday life.  Invited to train as an Insight Dialogue teacher in 2003\, she began co teaching retreats with Gregory Kramer and has offered ID retreats internationally with many in the ID Teaching Community. With Florence Meleo Meyer and Gregory Kramer\, she co-developed the Interpersonal Mindfulness Program (IMP).  She and Florence lead IMP Teacher Trainings and guide an international team of IMP Teachers called the “Gardeners” who tend the ongoing development of the program. Retiring as a psychotherapist and Counseling Institute Director of 35 years\, she continues to offer retreats\, teacher training\, serve on the IDC Teachers Council\, and teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at Duke Integrative Medicine.  \n\n\n\nKevin Fong\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKevin Fong is a teacher trainer\, supervisor\, and certification assessor for MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction). As an International Advisor\, trainer\, and Retreat Lead for the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation (UK)\, he has been teaching Insight Dialogue and Interpersonal Mindfulness programs since 2016. His work focuses on integrating evidence-based approaches with ancient wisdom for modern living\, with a particular interest in relational mindfulness and deepening practice through retreats. Kevin offers silent retreats\, classes\, and workshops in English\, Cantonese\, and Mandarin Chinese. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrerequisites for the training \n\n\n\n\nThe training is open to experienced MBCT/MBSR teachers who have taught at least 3 groups\, and to teachers of other recognised mindfulness programmes. Psychological therapists and counsellors will also be considered on a case-by-case basis. Applicants will have a personal regular meditation practice and will have sat a five-day silent retreat.  \n\n\n\nThe two pre-requisites are:  \n\n\n\n1) Participation in an eight-week Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme course (in your native language if possible). Find the eight-week Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme here. You can also find this eight-week course offered online or in person by our collaborating partners on Relational Mindfulness Collaborative’s website and in Cantonese and Mandarin on ATINAT’s website\, and on teacher Rosalie Dores’ website; \n\n\n\n2) Participation in at least one 5 to 7 day in-person Insight Dialogue or Relational Mindfulness retreat. A list of upcoming retreats may be found here; \n\n\n\nIf you have not met both prerequisites\, it may still be possible to do the teacher training retreat.  Your experience will be considered on a case by case basis.  Please contact us to explore this option.  \n\n\n\nPlease note that a further 5 to 7 day in-person or online Insight Dialogue or Relational Mindfulness retreat is required before teaching the programme but this can be completed after the training \n\n\n\nIf you are interested in this training you can either \n\n\n\n\nwatch the Interpersonal Mindfulness information & taster session or\n\n\n\nregister your interest by 31 December 2026 by entering your email address at the bottom of the page\n\n\n\n\nVisit this page to see the full teacher training pathway to becoming a teacher of the eight-week Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme. \n\n\n\nCost of residential teacher training \n\n\n\nThe prices below include full board (room and all meals) and all tuition fees and materials. Please indicate your room type preferences on your application form. Room types will be allocated on a first come\, first served basis and will also take into account any accessibility or support needs.   \n\n\n\nEarly birds rates until 28 February 2027 \n\n\n\n\nSingle occupancy ensuite room: £2200\n\n\n\nSingle occupancy with shared bathroom (bathroom is shared between two bedrooms) £2000\n\n\n\n\nStandard rates from 1 March 2027 and later\n\n\n\n\nSingle occupancy ensuite room: £2500\n\n\n\nSingle occupancy with shared bathroom (bathroom is shared between two bedrooms) £ 2300\n\n\n\n\nApplication process\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nWe encourage you to please register your interest for this teacher training retreat by 31 December 2026\, by entering your email address below.\n\n\n\nClick here to complete an application form. It will then be sent to the teaching team for review.\n\n\n\nOnce your application has been accepted\, we will send you the deposit payment link to pay a £500 deposit.\n\n\n\nThe relevant balance of your payment will need to be made. The amount depends on the date you apply (before or after the early bird rate).\n\n\n\n\nBursaries\n\n\n\nWe have a limited number of modest bursary places which offer a small reduction of not more than several hundred pounds reduction.  If you would not otherwise be able to attend without this\, please specify this in the application form. As we need to cover our costs\, we may not be able to decide on bursary places until a few months prior to the event itself. \n\n\n\nIf you have any questions about this training\, please don’t hesitate to email us at spft.smc@nhs.net \n\n\n\nPlease register your interest for this teacher training here:
URL:https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/event/teaching-presence-in-relationship-an-interpersonal-mindfulness-teacher-training/
CATEGORIES:IMP,Teacher training
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