The Introducing Mindfulness course offers a brief taste of mindfulness practice and theory in a format intended to be accessible to anyone new to mindfulness.

This course is designed for anyone interested in exploring some key mindfulness themes and practices in ways that might support them personally, in everyday life and work.

Mindfulness: Finding Peace in a Frantic World (‘Finding Peace’ for short) is a course designed to cultivate mindful awareness of our body, emotions and mind so that we can live our lives with a greater sense of wellbeing, kindness and resilience to life’s ups and downs. It is an evidence-based course, developed in the light of research at Oxford University and other leading research centres.

This course is not being offered as a treatment for any specific physical or psychological conditions. Please do not sign up for this training if you are currently experiencing severe problems in these areas.

Mindfulness for Life (sometimes referred to as MBCT-L) is a course designed to cultivate mindful awareness of our body, emotions and mind so that we can live our lives with a greater sense of wellbeing, kindness and resilience. It is an evidence-based course, developed in the light of research at Oxford University and other leading research centres.

It has two main intentions: to offer you some skills to meet life’s challenges and difficulties, both internal and external; as well as skills to develop more awareness and appreciation of the pleasant moments in life that we can often overlook. In other words, to respond more skilfully to all of life’s inevitable ups and downs.

This course is not being offered as a treatment for any specific physical or psychological conditions. Please do not sign up for this training if you are currently experiencing severe problems in these areas.

The course includes a longer Day of Practice, usually held on weekend towards the end of the course. This is an opportunity to deepen practice and, whilst an invaluable learning experience, does not form part of the core teaching.

Deeper Mindfulness: exploring feeling tone frame by frame is a new eight-week course (previous called Frame by Frame) developed by Mark Williams and colleagues, designed for those who have already completed a mindfulness-based program and want to explore mindfulness more deeply. It is informed by recent psychological findings that reveal that 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.

Ancient traditions saw feeling tone (vedana) as a fundamental element of every moment of experience and a central aspect of mindfulness practice. Learning specific practices to help us become aware of feeling tone allows us to see clearly the very instant where we become caught up in pursuing or rejecting something and become entangled in a web of emotional distress. Meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein has said that mindfulness of feeling tone is one of the master keys that both reveals and unlocks the deepest patterns of our conditioning.

During these eight weeks you will learn meditations that prepare you for, then help you tune in to 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.

This course is not being offered as a treatment for any specific physical or psychological condition. If you are currently experiencing a severe problem it would be best to sign up for this training once the worst is past and you have recovered some stability.

Healthy workplaces are essential for employees' work performance, team collaboration, and customer satisfaction. Evidence shows that advocating physical and mental wellness in the workplace is highly relevant to effective communication, higher productivity, and reduction in absenteeism and turnover rate.

We offer customized mindfulness training sessions or workshops to organizations seeking to learn how mindfulness can be implemented in their work environment. Personal consultation services are also available as follow-up support to targeted members of the team.

Frontline healthcare providers are notoriously susceptible to the risk of job burnout. The exceptional level of job stress and potential moral distress can negatively impact physical and emotional wellbeing.

We aim to provide healthcare providers with customized, structured mindfulness training that creates a psychologically safe environment to address their unique physical and emotional needs. By engaging in personal and group practices, individuals and teams can enhance their quality of care, quality of caring, resilience, and overall wellbeing.

The program offers an opportunity for anyone who need a time out to enjoy deep relaxation. Join us for 1.5 hours of gentle and supported mindfulness practice, accompanied by the soothing sounds of the Harp.