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New departure for the Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion as we offer mindfulness and compassion courses to the public and underrepresented communities, for the first time…
Indi, Quality Improvement Advisor for Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, writes from the heart about her mindfulness journey and her more recent experience of Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion’s eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion course. When I learnt how to apply self compassion, it was literally transformational for me. That’s not a word I use lightly. Indi, Quality Improvement Advisor, Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust I had done the standard eight-week mindfulness courses a number of times, getting different benefits each time. My meditation practice had been a constant, if somewhat inconsistent thread in my wellbeing recovery over a couple of decades. I’d…
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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This workshop draws on clinical research and lived experience to work with trauma in mindfulness-based work. What is covered? This training will enable you to identify signs of trauma in your participants and provide practical ways of helping participants manage it. It will help you understand what challenges and adaptations you may need to make to your standard teaching to help support people with trauma histories. We approach the training 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…
Quite often we promote mindfulness as a way of feeling less stressed, less depressed, less anxious, less self-punishing. We gather ourselves around the breath, pause and let our parasympathetic nervous system activate, returning to being the self that we like being, the one that can be more grounded, calmer, kinder. I can breathe into that gnarly little knot I have become in that moment of aggravation and open to a bigger space – and feel better. But actually, I also appreciate the practice for opening up a space that lets me feel worse. In my haze of avoidance and reactivity,…