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Moment to pause – Free online lunchtime mindfulness session
Join a one-hour lunchtime session to experience how mindfulness can bring space and new perspectives.
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Moment to pause – Free online lunchtime mindfulness session
Join a one-hour lunchtime session to experience how mindfulness can bring space and new perspectives.
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Moment to pause – Free online lunchtime mindfulness session
Join a one-hour lunchtime session to experience how mindfulness can bring space and new perspectives.
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Trauma-informed and effective mindfulness teaching
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…
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“How mindfulness helps me” by Robert Marx
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,…