Mindfulness Centre

At the Mindfulness Centre we teach people deep skills for relieving stress, enjoying the day to day, and providing sophisticated ways of resolving troubling situations and emotions.

What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a way of thinking about and approaching life that allows us to transform our experience moment by moment.

Mindfulness skills address the underlying processes we use to perceive, understand and react to our experience of the world. As we become more mindful the way we relate to our feelings and thoughts becomes softer, more fluid and clearer.

Mindfulness-based education cultivates greater self acceptance,
sharpness of mind and a sustained inner ability to counter stress. By changing the way we approach, think and feel about challenging situations we see new solutions and opportunities.

By taking the skills and acting with them, we help our own way out of negative thought and behaviour patterns and depression. This frees us to function better, be more productive and better enjoy the life we live.

Mindfulness training is especially useful for transforming difficult and challenging situations. As we change our approach, new ideas and options open up, enabling us to feel less stuck and consequently more able to access different choices - choices and decisions that are kinder and wiser.

Before I was less effective, now I have more momentum, less procrastination. I am more effective. - Participant

Research has shown mindfulness to have profound, sustained effects for a broad range of people. Adapted to a Western context, our training courses are based on the ancient Buddhist tradition of Mindfulness meditation, and incorporate simple yet powerful meditation tools integrated with models from neuroscience, psychology, education, performance and management, and contemplative practices research.

Mindfulness is having a notable impact in these modern times, particularly in the health, mental health, management and performance arenas. Today Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), our core offering, is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (UK) as a treatment of choice for depression and is also taught in a range of business, parenting education and personal settings for stress management, relaxation, greater focus and higher functioning.

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a state-of-the-art program combining Mindfulness with Cognitive Therapy. Mindfulness is a simple yet sophisticated Buddhist form of meditation and has been used for over two and a half thousand years. Cognitive Therapy - also known as Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or Behaviour Therapy - focuses on realising and changing unhelpful ways we may think, interpret and react to situations. It has developed in the West since the 1960s. The combination brings together sensory and cognitive techniques within a framework of kindness and acceptance. Focused on the present, MBCT is approachable and like Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction from which it draws heavily, was developed in a Western context for mediators and non-mediators alike. It is for those who want to live with more ease, skill and wisdom.