Mindful You – 8 Week mindfulness based cognitive therapy

Your journey to greater happiness, contentment and well-being

“I recommend Nick’s 8-week course to everyone. It has given me the tools to no longer be overwhelmed by my thoughts and emotions. It is the single most impactful thing I have done for my mental health and well-being.” Marie

Over this 8 week Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy course (MBCT) learn:

mindfulness tools to help with depression, anxiety and worry
how to feel happier and more confident
simple ways to reduce stress
ways to handle self-critical and judgemental thinking

We meet in a small group of up to 14 participants and learning is through instruction, guided practice and group discussion.

Stress, worry and anxiety can all feel overwhelming in our hectic modern world. Over the 8 weeks you’ll be introduced to a series of meditations that build up into your own tool box of practices. Each participant finds different practices most relevant to them and by the end of the course have their own bespoke approach to mindfulness:

You may find it is the gratitude practice that helps you reconnect with a feeling of excitement and joy about your life.

Or the mindful movement practice that helps you feel alert and energised in your body.

Some find the body scan practice a way to explore deeply their experience of being embodied

Whilst others enjoy resting in a deep place of calm by sitting with their attention resting on the feeling of the breath rising and falling in the body.

The course is based on the Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) programme developed in Oxford and includes elements of compassion based practice as well. Over the course of the 8 weeks, you’ll learn how mindfulness can help you to recognise when you become entangled in worries, self-criticism and ruminative thinking. As you recognise and step back from this unhelpful automatic thinking and story telling you’ll find a way to be more free, spontaneous and happy.

“This course was very powerful and has been life changing.”

Course Format

The course consists of eight, two and a half hour sessions which include mindfulness practices, guided meditations, gentle stretching and movement, group dialogue and discussion, home practice assignments, and guided audio practices. There is also a full-day retreat that will include a variety of soothing practices, silence and a day to explore in more detail the practices we introduce over the course.

You’ll receive a course workbook and guided meditations to download and keep. Weekly emails offer guidance and support and remind you of the practices for that week.

“The course has really helped me gain more insights into thought patterns and how our mind works. Key for me are the use of practices such as Loving Kindness, nourishing activities, creating mind space with meditation and being open to our experiences” Richard, Spring, 2017