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Opening my mind: Running a group for refugees
Robert Marx, the son of a refugee, describes his experience of running a mindfulness course for refugees and asylum seekers
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Innovations award for our work with refugees, one year on
A year after we won an award for our work with refugees and asylum seekers, we’ve come to the end of two more ten-week mindfulness courses. This time the venue was a very special ‘secret’ garden. This blog post, by Julia Powell one of the facilitators, is based on a short update for the Innovations in Mindfulness Awards. What winning the award meant to us When we won an Innovations in Mindfulness award for our work with refugees in October 2024, it meant a huge amount to us: it represented recognition of the original Mindfulness Across Borders curriculum developed by…
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Wellbeing course for migrants
Learn skills to manage stress and improve life. Join this free ten-week programme for migrants. The trauma-informed and culturally sensitive course will be held outdoors in a beautiful garden.
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Wellbeing course for women migrants
Learn skills to manage stress and improve life. Join this free ten-week programme for women migrants. The trauma-informed and culturally sensitive course will be held outdoors in a beautiful garden.
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Winner in Innovations in Mindfulness Awards
The Sussex Mindfulness Centre has won an Innovations in Mindfulness Award for their pioneering work running mindfulness courses for women refugees The award was announced on 19 October 2024, at the Manchester Mindfulness Festival. The awards were initiated to celebrate “the creativity that makes mindfulness practices more accessible, more diverse and more effective.” The Centre won this award under the Creative Partnerships category which acknowleges the role of all the individuals and organisations that made this work possible. The first most important collaboration, and part of the winning team, were Ariana Faris and Sheila Webb for pioneering the development of…
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Innovations in mindfulness for refugees
Dr Lana Jackson, Clinical Psychologist and mindfulness teacher at the Sussex Mindfulness Centre, shares some of the innovations in our work with refugees and celebrates the team’s award. I am beyond thrilled to announce that our collaborating team has won a 2024 Innovations in Mindfulness Award! This recognition honours the work we’ve been doing through our 10-week, trauma-informed, and culturally-sensitive mindfulness courses that were designed for women refugees and asylum-seekers. It’s a moment of deep gratitude, not only for the award itself, but for the journey that has led us here. Julia Powell (mindfulness teacher) and I began our journey…