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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 Self-Compassion course: eight weeks on Wednesday evenings
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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Mindfulness for living with cancer: Eight-week course – Thursday evenings
This eight-week course uses mindfulness as a tool for self-care to support those living with and beyond a cancer diagnosis. It is designed to help improve wellbeing and give you tools to respond to the stresses and strains of everyday life. It is based on the original ground-breaking Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy course. Overview Receiving a cancer diagnosis, undergoing treatments and living with the ongoing possibility of a recurrence, however great or small, is a life-changing experience – things will never be ‘the same as they were before’. However, this is the hope and expectation of those around us, particularly…
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One-day online mindfulness retreat
This one-day online mindfulness retreat offers an opportunity to extend and deepen your mindfulness practice, within a supportive environment.
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Five-day mindfulness retreat with Taravajra
A long-weekend retreat from your own home. A chance to open your heart and listen to your deep intentions.
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Our first one-day mindfulness retreat for people with learning disabilities
Gillian Hurren shares insights from the first one-day mindfulness retreat for people with learning disabilities, that she delivered with Celia Heneage. The retreat for Team Springwell was held at the end of the summer, in Portland House, Worthing. After meeting virtually for the last two years, it was very exciting for us to be able to deliver an in-person day retreat for Team Springwell in Worthing. The retreat was delivered by Celia Heneage and myself, both mindfulness teachers from the learning disability service. The feedback we received was very encouraging. “I really enjoyed it, it was great to actually see…
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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…