mindfulness courses
Our Mindfulness Courses
Within all Mindfulness courses we aim to facilitate small and supportive groups. There is a focus on everyone taking time out from their busy lives to pause, to think, to learn and to discover ways to be mindful and support their own well-being.
Feel free to contact us to see if our courses could be helpful for you, or email us to learn more or to recieve our newsletter.
We also offer personalised courses tailored to the specific needs of organisations.
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Mindful eating : you are what you eat? Maybe it's not just what you eat but how you eat.
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Learn from a psychotherapist with 15 years experience in a relaxed atmosphere how to:
- really unwind in a hectic life
- be kinder on yourself, feel more confident and resilient
- move forward with your relationship with food (including 'emotional eating')
- rediscover and enjoy food
- meditate and be mindful, even when (or especially when!) busy
- improve concentration
The course focuses on developing long-term strategies to support your well-being to enable you to make lasting positive changes to your life.
Delicious freshly home-made food is provided as part of the course experience, and as an opportunity to put into practice what we learn on the course about 'mindful eating'.The course includes teachings on meditation/ mindfulness, physiology/ bodily sensations, behaviour and links with emotions, and how to apply this to day-to-day hectic life. We are interested in you taking away strategies that can be embedded into your life.
We currently offer 4-week courses for £120; each session is 2 hours long. We cap numbers in each course to support a relaxed group atmosphere, and to tailor each course to allow individuals to move towards their personal goals.
Mindful eating invites us to change our relationship with food. This programme therefore invites us to reflect on our own personal relationship to food:
- To uncover some of the emotional connections we have with food.
- To appreciate the way the body works in relation to eating, hunger and emotions.
- To increase enjoyment of food, in all its wonderful tastes, smells, textures and colours.
- To give a sense of control
- To build a compassionate stance to our body and ultimately to ourselves.
- To help improve our mood, confidence and sense of wellbeing.
Research tells us this will support weight loss. We recommend that you don’t put pressure on yourself in regards to this goal as it can create an anxiety which, as we will explain throughout the course, may in fact be an obstacle to weight loss.
In essence, we are aiming to offer you a relaxed, useful and enjoyable course that enables you to develop longer-term strategies to support your well-being.
As freshly made food is included within the course experience, when booking please state any dietary requirements. Please don't hesitate to contact us to find out more and discuss how this course fits with your hopes and goals.
Place and dates:take this time for you to pause, to learn, to make positive changes
Thank you to all those who took the time to give us your very generous feedback about our courses and voting for where to next hold our 2019 Well-being & Mindful Eating courses. Our 2018 courses are now full; our next courses are:
- Sundays 10.30-12.30am 13th, 20th, 27th January and 3rd February 2019: 4 consecutive weeks.
- Monday 14th, 21st January, 4th & 11th February 2019: 4 consecutive weeks, with a week's pause in the middle
A big thank you to Harlow Museum & Walled Garden (CM20 2LF) for your support and hosting us so wonderfully. It feels a really fitting venue- a private, quiet place to learn and discover. This beautiful venue has free parking and step-free access.
Tickets are £120, including 4 two-hour sessions, and freshly made canapes as part of course experience.
To secure your space, either:
- book via event brite
- email us to save your space if you would prefer to pay in instalments
We are very happy to answer any questions- email us, text/call 07817 219628 or 'follow' us on facebook:
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Mindful Mothering
Mindful mothering: a course designed for Mums of babies aged between 2 months to 2 year-olds. Please email to be added to mailing list about upcoming dates.
We have two options: day-time sessions with babies welcome and evening-time workshop for Mums only.
Ever been told to ‘make sure you enjoy the first year, that it goes so fast?’. Mothering can be our most valuable ‘job’, yet negotiating the everyday and changing pressures of those ever-changing first two years is hard. Whilst trying hard to enjoy, to savour, to be present with your baby, it is typical for feelings of irritation, of impatience, of frustration (and so much more!) to arise in relation to our babies, partners and extended family members. Mindfulness is an incredible tool to enhance those magical connecting moments with your baby and family, as well as draw on when experiencing difficult thoughts and feelings. Latest research is clear about the range of beneficial effects of mindfulness for well-being and relationships; we will focus on how to apply mindfulness strategies to life with a baby and toddler.
Facilitated by Kathy White, drawing from expertise as a Clinical Psychologist, as well as personal experience of the reality of putting into practice mindfulness whilst being a mum.
Mindful Sex
After six years working as a specialist Clinical Psychologist in a Sexual Health and Sexual Problems service, Kathy is excited to now be bringing high-quality evidence-based knowledge and skills about sexual well-being in our community. At the moment, we are 'just' running 'one-off' sexual well-being and mindful sex talks: if you are interested please register your details.