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Hannah Rudd: My journey with mindfulness
Hannah Rudd describes how a Mindful Self-Compassion course helped her to manage shame around her autism, support herself through challenges and nurture self-compassion.
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Mindful Self-Compassion course: eight weeks on Saturday mornings
Mindful Self-Compassion teaches core principles and practices that enable participants to respond to challenges and difficult emotions with care and understanding.
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One-day mindfulness retreat
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. NB: This was previously advertised for 21 June. If you registered for that (you will be notified of the change of date) and your place is reserved until you confirm if you’d still like to attend. Content of the day The day will be facilitated by the Sussex Mindfulness Centre’s experienced teachers and will include a series of different mindfulness and compassion practices. It will be held mostly in silence as a way of supporting…
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Self-compassion “an antidote to burnout”
We were honoured to have Chris Germer with us on Saturday, 21 September, for a workshop on self-compassion for burnout. On this page you can find some take home messages from Chris and two participants who attended the workshop. Chris Germer shares his take home message Chris Germer explains that self-compassion is an antidote to burnout; and that there’s two ways to respond. One is to respond with tender compassion; to lean in with kindness when we notice that we’re suffering. This isn’t how we usually do things, but we can learn to do things differently that makes us more…
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Mindful Self-Compassion teacher training information session
Are you interested in teaching Mindful Self-Compassion? This session will provide all you need to know about training with us.
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Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout
Here is a short extract from Mindful Self-Compassion for Burnout, by Kristin Neff and Chris Germer. Chris is running a workshop of the same name in Brighton on 21 September, to coincide with the launch of the book. Self-compassion is not “self-care”—you know, that list of small acts you can do for yourself presented in employer-mandated webinars and on “wellness” websites. You don’t need to be handed that list again. (Hot baths? Please. Sleep better? When? Eat right? Who’s doing the cooking—to say nothing of the grocery shopping?) It’s not advice to simply do less, as often offered by well-meaning…