Buddhist foundations of mindfulness
2023-09-08 09:30 - 16:30 (Europe/London) | Online
Even though many of us deliver entirely secular mindfulness programmes, many of the ideas in contemporary mindfulness-based programmes make more sense when we understand their origins and intentions.

Co-author of Mindfulness: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology, Christina Feldman is one of the few experts who can help us understand the connections between the two worlds.

Who is this for?

This masterclass is suitable for anyone involved in teaching, or training to teach, mindfulness; or anyone with a particular interest in the Buddhist underpinnings of mindfulness practice.

The facilitator

Christina Feldman is a leader in the field of mindfulness and Buddhist teachings. A well-known author in this field, she is one of the few people who can make this bridge. We are delighted to welcome her back again to run this event.

Christina is a co-founder of Gaia House. She has been leading Insight Meditation retreats worldwide since 1976. She is a Guiding Teacher of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts. She is the author of a number of books including ‘Woman Awake’, ‘Way of Meditation’, and co-author of ‘Soul Food’. Recent books include ‘Silence’, ‘The Buddhist Path to Simplicity’ and ‘The Boundless Heart’. Christina is the co-founder of Bodhi College and she teaches on several modules on the MBCT postgraduate training at Exeter University. Her contribution focuses upon the Buddhist psychological foundations that underpin mindfulness-based interventions. She is a contributing faculty teacher at Njimegen University in the Netherlands; she leads retreats internationally and is involved in the dialogue between classical Buddhist teachings and their application today through mindfulness-based interventions.

Certificates

Certificates of attendance will be emailed after the event.

Free workplace mindfulness taster
2023-07-24 18:00 - 19:00 | Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1AF, United Kingdom
Are you considering a mindfulness programme in your workplace? Join our free online taster session. This one-hour taster session will introduce you to the benefits of supporting staff to practice mindfulness. Benefits include improved wellbeing and ability to manage stress, leading to less absenteeism and greater productivity.

Brief overview

The session will cover the benefits such as heightened emotional intelligence and greater self-management which improves relationships with colleagues, and decreases conflict in the workplace. You will also be given the opportunity to sample key mindfulness practices and find out about the mindfulness in the workplace training programmes that we offer.

Where?

Online on Zoom

Teacher training information session
2023-07-03 10:00 - 11:00
Interested in applying to the Foundation in Mindfulness-Based Approaches (MBCT/MBSR) training?

Meet the teachers and find out more at our teacher training information sessions.

Register to attend by emailing smc@spft.nhs.uk

One day mindfulness retreat
2023-07-01 10:00 - 16:00 | Sussex Education Centre, Hove, West Sussex, United Kingdom
A one-day mindfulness retreat is an important part of the eight-week mindfulness course. It offers an opportunity to extend your practice, within a supportive environment.

This day is right for you if you have attended an eight-week MBCT or MBSR course and are:

a current or previous Sussex Partnership service user,

a current staff member,

a Staff in Mind participant,

a current Sussex Mindfulness Centre or MBCT in IAPT trainee, or

an alumni of a Sussex Mindfulness Centre training or of the MBCT in IAPT training.

No payment is required. In order to book a place and get venue details, please email smc@spft.nhs.uk

Compassion in Challenging Times with Dr Thupten Jinpa
2023-06-08 18:00 - 19:30 | Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1AF, United Kingdom
In partnership with the Compassion Institute we are delighted to host an online talk from Dr Thupten Jinpa on “Compassion in Challenging Times.”

Safety and effectiveness day
2023-05-19 09:30 - 17:00 | Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton, Sussex, BN1 1AF, United Kingdom
Drawing on clinical research and lived experience to work with trauma in mindfulness-based work

Led by: Richard Gilpin, Clara Strauss, Robert Marx, Michael Hales, Julia Racster-Szostak and Georgie Higton

This one day online workshop will enable you to identify signs of trauma in your participants and provide practical ways to help them manage it. It will help you to understand what challenges you may face, and what adaptations you may need to make to your standard mindfulness sessions to help support people with trauma histories. We approach this 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.
