Mindfulness courses

In this section:

A New Mindful Self Care 6 Week Course

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT-D)

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L)

Deeper Mindfulness: Exploring feeling tone frame by frame - 8 Week Course

 

 

A New Mindful Self Care 6 Week Course

This new 6 week course has been specifically developed for staff in healthcare settings. The course aims to teach self-care through mindfulness based strategies that have been proven to increase self-compassion, reduce stress and optimise our wellbeing both at home and at work.

Each session is 1.25 hours with a focus on education regarding self-care and mindful practice. The course requires a minimum of 30 mins home practice each week.

• Wednesday 3 July 2024, 2pm to 3.15pm - MS Teams (Concludes 7 August 2024)
• Tuesday 24 September 2024, 10am to 11.15am - MS Teams (Tuesday 29 November 2024)
• Tuesday 5 November 2024, 3pm to 4.15pm - MS Teams (Concludes Tuesday 10 December 2024)

Email us for an application form at HUBMindfulness@nottshc.nhs.uk

 

 

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT-D) - For anyone who has experience of low mood or depression

The 8 week course of 2 hour sessions is for anyone who is experiencing depression and wishes to enhance their general wellbeing through a greater awareness of automatic patterns of thinking. The course combines mindfulness meditation with cognitive - behavioural therapy exercises which enable us to become more aware of our mind and body and begin to dissolve some of our unhelpful habits of thinking such as critical thinking, worry and rumination.

• Wednesday 14 August 2024, 2pm to 4pm - MS Teams (Concludes Wednesday 9 October 2024)
• Thursday 31 October 2024, 9.30am to 11.30am - MS Teams (Concludes Thursday 19 December 2024)

Email us for an application form at HUBMindfulness@nottshc.nhs.uk

 

 

Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy for Life (MBCT-L)

An 8 session programme that offers the possibility of flourishing and growth as well as working with distress and difficulty. It is an adaptation of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCTD) which we also offer. MBCTD is designed more specifically to prevent depressive relapse and/or manage mild-to-moderate anxiety.

MBCTL is for anyone looking to change the way they relate to their life through a combination of mindfulness practices and cognitive-behavioural techniques. The programme serves as a guide in the application of key learning to everyday life - It's not just mindfulness for difficulties but ’mindfulness for life’

• Wednesday 30 October to 18th December 2024, 10am to 12.15pm - MS Teams

Email us for an application form at HUBMindfulness@nottshc.nhs.uk

 

 

Deeper Mindfulness: Exploring feeling tone frame by frame - 8 Week Course 

This is a new eight-week course of two hour weekly sessions is developed by Mark Williams and colleagues, designed for those who have already completed a mindfulness-based programme and want to explore mindfulness more deeply.

It is informed by recent psychological findings revealing that our understanding of the world is dominated by imagining how we can take action within it, coloured by what is called ‘feeling tone’; the sense of how pleasant or unpleasant each moment is for us. Greater awareness of the ‘feeling tone’ of each moment can support us in getting the most out of our experiences.

During the eight weekly sessions, 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.

• Thursday 3 October 2024, 10am to 12pm - MS Teams (Concludes 14 November 2024)

Book a place by emailing us at hubmindfulness@nottshc.nhs.uk