What is mindfulness?
Away from the hype, and the lifestyle magazines what is mindfulness? Is it a cure for stress? A quick fix? On this page we describe mindfulness, explain what it is and debunk some myths. There’s also a helpful video.
Learn mindfulness
We offer a range of mindfulness programmes so that people, patients and staff can improve their wellbeing and mental health.
Find out how you can learn mindfulness and take a look at the courses we run.
Train to teach mindfulness
Train to teach mindfulness and Mindful Self-Compassion with one of the leading mindfulness centres in the UK.
Find out about training to teach mindfulness
Mindfulness at work
As a leading mindfulness centre we offer effective mindfulness programmes for staff, and compassionate leadership programmes for managers. Find out about mindfulness at work
Resources
You can find a range of mindfulness and Mindful Self-Compassion guided audio practices led by our experienced teachers. Find out more about our resources
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Mindfulness tasters and short courses Check out our free one-hour tasters and refreshers, and short mindfulness courses to help you get started with mindfulness. Eight-week mindfulness courses Book an eight-week course. We offer Mindful Self-Compassion, Deepening Mindfulness and other mindfulness-based courses. Live sessions, workshops & retreats To help you maintain and deepen your practice, we…
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Emily Kenneally: My journey with mindfulness
Emily Kenneally, a writer for a mental health charity supporting educators, shares her journey with mindfulness and how it helps her stay grounded and self-compassionate, while living with ADHD.
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Innovations award for our work with refugees, one year on
A year after we won an award for our work with refugees and asylum seekers, we’ve come to the end of two more ten-week mindfulness courses. This time the venue was a very special ‘secret’ garden. This blog post, by Julia Powell one of the facilitators, is based on a short update for the Innovations…
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Georgie Payne: My journey with mindfulness
Georgie Payne describes how mindfulness helped her get through a profound period of grief, and how she has come to use the skills she learned to help others
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Compassion: The Power to Transform, conference 15 May 2026
Save the date for our next annual conference which takes place on 15 May 2026. We’ll explore how compassion can bring about transformational change.