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Mindfulness tasters and short courses
Check out our free one-hour tasters and refreshers, and short mindfulness courses to help you get started with mindfulness.
Eight-week mindfulness courses
Book an eight-week course. We offer Mindful Self-Compassion, Deepening Mindfulness and other mindfulness-based courses.
Live sessions, workshops & retreats
To help you maintain and deepen your practice, we offer a range of free live online and in-person meditation sessions, workshops and retreats.
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Struggling to make meditation a habit? Here’s what helped me.
Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion volunteer, Hannah Andrews, shares her experience of attending a retreat in Plum Village, and describes the impact it’s had for her. Not long ago I was a total mindfulness novice. I was aware of its benefits: reduced stress, improved sleep, reduced anxiety etc. There are no side-effects, and it’s free! It seemed a no brainer. I downloaded various apps and promised myself to meditate daily, but it never seemed to stick. I couldn’t get past meditating three days in a row before life would get in the way. I was well aware that I would need…
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One-day mindfulness retreat
Join us for this one -day mindfulness retreat. It’s offers an opportunity to extend and deepen your practice, within a supportive environment. Content of the day The day will be facilitated by the Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion’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 your practice. We will aim to provide tea and coffee, but please bring your own food for lunch. There will be chairs and maybe some cushions, but please bring what you need to be comfortable, if you can.…
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Free mindfulness taster
Our one-hour mindfulness taster includes the benefits of mindfulness, a description of the programmes we offer and some sample practices for you to try.
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Pioneers in mindful self-compassion bring their special magic to Brighton
The founders of the mindful self-compassion programme, Kristin Neff and Chris Germer, ran a hugely successful and very nourishing two-day wokshop in Brighton, earlier this month. The workshop was supported by mindful self-compassion teachers and mentors from around the UK. Over 100 participants, including people who travelled from beyond the UK, joined the special event. Postponed twice, because of the pandemic, this was the Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion’s first in-person event in over two years. The workshop included an engaging range of teaching, discussion and practice. We posted on Twitter throughout the two days and share some of the nuggets…