Compassion retreat: Welcoming the stranger
A long-weekend retreat from your own home. A chance to open your heart and listen to your deep intentions.
A long-weekend retreat from your own home. A chance to open your heart and listen to your deep intentions.
Supporting people to live with fatigue, uncertainty and changing capacity. One-day online workshop. Fatigue can profoundly affect how people live, work, move, relate to others and participate in everyday life. It is a common and often disabling feature of many long-term health conditions, including Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS), Long Covid, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, functional neurological disorder and fibromyalgia
This day-long retreat, led by John Makransky, PhD, introduces Sustainable Compassion Training — a practice drawn from Tibetan Buddhism and modern psychology to help participants connect with innate qualities of awareness, warmth, and unconditional compassion.
This week-long Mindful Self-Compassion teacher training course is the first step of the teacher training that will enable you to run the eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion course. You’ll learn how to […]
Mindful Self-Compassion teaches core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to challenges and difficult emotions with care and understanding.
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.
This workshop draws on clinical research and lived experience to work with trauma in mindfulness-based work.
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 residential training course will take place at the Ammerdown Retreat Centre in Somerset, near Bath, from 21 to 30 October 2027.
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.

