Individual Courses
Mindfulness courses for adults.
We deliver a variety of Mindfulness courses, monthly Drop ins and retreats throughout the year. Please see our What's On page for more details.
Finding Peace in a Frantic World (8 week course)
Do you sometimes feel that your life is defined by frantic busyness, anxiety, stress and exhaustion?
If so, the Finding Peace course could be for you. The course is designed to help participants to settle their minds and enhance their natural happiness and contentment using Mindfulness techniques.
The course is delivered in 90 minute sessions over 8 weeks and introduces participants to Mindful awareness through a range of practices that encourage us to bring curiosity to our experience and befriend the body. Throughout the sessions we:
- Develop Mindfulness in every day activities
- Pay attention to our thoughts and feelings
- Explore how we react or respond to difficulties
- Consider how we relate to ourselves and others
- Review how we can develop a healthier balance in our lives
The sessions are a mix of Mindfulness practices, input from the Teacher and opportunities to share in small groups and the group as a whole.
Deeper Mindfulness (8 week course)
This course is suitable for both those new to Mindfulness and for those who have experience of Mindfulness who wish to deepen their Mindfulness practice. It is informed by recent psychological findings revealing that in every waking moment, our understanding of the world is dominated by imagining how we can take action within it, coloured by what is called ‘feeling tone’.
Feeling tone is the moment-by-moment ‘read-out’ of how much a sensation, thought or emotion feels pleasant, unpleasant, or neither. Based on this moment-by-moment ‘read out’, the body allocates its resources as it gears up for real or imagined action. This can prepare us well for action, but it can also put us at risk of becoming exhausted without our realising it.
During these eight weeks you will learn meditations that prepare you for, then help you tune into feeling tone frame by frame. This provides an opportunity to see more clearly both the tipping points for distress and exhaustion and also how to flourish by freeing yourself to appreciate life again, even in the midst of difficulty.