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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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Mindful creative all-day retreat
A one-day mindfulness retreat, including meditation practices, creative expression and journaling, that will be held mostly in silence. Experience of creative expression is not necessary. Background to the day This day builds on the positive responses from offering a similar event last year. We realised from last year’s experience that there was a real hunger, both for connecting with our creativity and also for engaging with mindfulness and compassion practices in ways that keep us freshly discovering ourselves. We found last time that for some people, creative practices really deepened places inside that they could access in a way that…
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Five-day silent mindfulness retreat in person
A long-weekend retreat from your own home. A chance to open your heart and listen to your deep intentions.
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Mindfulness for people living with dementia – Thursday mornings
This eight-week course enables people living with dementia to improve their quality of life. The course is designed to help improve wellbeing and give you the tools to respond to the stresses and strains of everyday life. It is based on the original Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course, which has a solid base of evidence that demonstrate it’s effectiveness. Overview Living with dementia can be challenging at times. Dementia affects everybody differently, but it may increase the likelihood of anxiety, stress, and low-mood for some. You might have concerns about the future, about memory issues and about your relationships. This…
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Mindful Self-Compassion residential teacher training
This week-long Mindful Self-Compassion teacher training course is the first step of the teacher training that will enable you to run the eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion course. You’ll learn how to present the Mindful Self-Compassion curriculum and develop your own teaching presence. This is the start of your training journey to teach Mindful Self-Compassion. The six-day intensive training is held at Sharpham House, in Devon from 14 March 2027. The practical details The training runs from Sunday 14 March to Saturday 20 March 2027. It will take place at the peaceful and beautiful Sharpham House residential retreat, near Totnes, in Devon. It…
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Mindfulness & cancer: Finding steadiness together
The Sussex Mindfulness & Compassion is offering two mindfulness events for people affected by cancer: a course for those living with cancer and a masterclass for teachers.
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Taming the wild horses (and opening the heart)
Paul Johanson writes about secular and contemplative practices that can release us from our habitual drive towards suffering.