Mindfulness courses for Sussex Partnership staff
The Sussex Mindfulness Centre provides eight-week mindfulness courses.
The courses include Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy or Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, and occasionally Mindfulness for Life and Mindful Self-Compassion.
Find out about upcoming eight-week courses, at the bottom of the Learn Mindfulness page. From February 2025, there are no free eight-week courses available for SPFT staff. If you would like to be notified when, and if, free courses become available for staff, please let us know by dropping us a line at spft.smc@nhs.net.
Support for you
Working in the caring professions can be inspiring and rewarding, however it can also be hard work and at times stressful and emotionally demanding. Research indicates that mindfulness can have physical and psychological benefits, including reductions in stress, anxiety, worry, low mood and sleep difficulties, and improvements in immune function, personal relationships, compassion, creativity and enjoyment of life.
A chance to pause
A mindfulness course offers a chance to take a pause, to learn a different approach to managing stress and difficulties, to reflect on what’s important to you and to take care of yourself.
“For anyone looking to find a way of balancing the often competing demands of home, work, and not least, ourselves, it’s worth their checking out a mindfulness course. Too often we overlook the basics in our lives and need to find a way of connecting with what really matters.”
Mindful Nation report
Teacher training pathway
The main purpose of offering these courses is to support staff wellbeing, though if you’re interested in training to become a mindfulness teacher or lead mindfulness practices, the eight-week course is also the first step in the teacher training pathway.
What the course involves
The eight-week mindfulness course consists of an introductory orientation session to help you to decide if mindfulness is for you. This is followed by eight weekly two-hour classes. Participants are encouraged to do about half an hour of daily exercises between classes to gain maximum benefits. The most common course offered to staff is Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy, which can reduce depression and anxiety, and improve wellbeing and resilience. You don’t have to be suffering mental health issues to do this course.
Find courses and book
When there are courses available for staff they are advertised at the bottom of this page. There are currently no free courses available for SPFT staff. You are welcome to sign up to mindfulness courses available to the public here.
Courses for Sussex Partnership staff
We have run mindfulness courses for the Sussex Partnership for over 16 years. The evidence shows positive impacts for staff in terms of reduced stress and improved wellbeing. Taking the eight-week course could be your first step in training to be a mindfulness teacher, however the main purpose of providing these courses is to support your wellbeing.
Find out about upcoming eight-week courses, at the bottom of the Learn Mindfulness page. From February 2025, there are no free eight-week courses available for SPFT staff. If you would like to be notified when, and if, free courses become available for staff, please let us know by dropping us a line at spft.smc@nhs.net.
Interested in training to teach mindfulness?
If you are wishing to teach mindfulness, and need to do the eight-week mindfulness course as part of the entry requirements, you can find out about upcoming eight-week Mindfulness for Life courses here.
Either way, you would need to pay the £250 fee initially, but, if you went on to do your teacher training with us, we would deduct this amount from your teacher training fee.