This is an 8 week mindfulness course, which allows participants to learn a range of techniques that can be used in their daily life. 'Mindful Living' helps put people in charge of their minds, attention and thoughts, which in turn leads to wide-ranging benefits.
Cultivate self-awareness
Respond rather than react to stress
Change habitual reactivity patterns
Learn a new approach to mindfulness, fused with elements of Positive Psychology
Earn a course certificate of completion
Based on the methodology and principles of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), the most scientifically researched mindfulness programme (MBSR was created by Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD at the University of Massachusetts Medical Centre in 1979)
Taught by a mindfulness instructor with a personal practice of over 20 years
No prior meditation experience required – great for beginners and advanced meditators alike
Guided meditations and course lessons right in your inbox
Highly interactive instructor-led sessions (in-person and Zoom options)
Week 1 Attention & the Now
What is Mindfulness? • The Now • Attention • This Programme
Week 2 Automaticity
What is automaticity? • Automatic behaviour • Automatic cycles
Week 3 Judgements
What are judgements? • Colouring reality • Strengthening duality • Limiting reality • Creating conflicts
Week 4 Acceptance
Resistance • Acceptance • Misconceptions
Week 5 Goals
The benefits of goals • Goal-related pitfalls • Mindfulness and goals
Week 6 Compassion
The inner critic • Self-compassion • The importance of self-acceptance
Week 7 The Ego
The self as story • Building the ego • Expression of the ego • Beyond the ego
Week 8 Integration
Integrating the topics • Assimilating mindfulness into daily life • Sustaining a mindfulness practice
Although typically offered as a face-to-face session, 'Mindful Living' can also take place via webinar (hosted on Zoom).
Duration: 2 hours a week for 8 weeks (+ practise at home)
