Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses in Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud and Bristol
What is Mindfulness Meditation?
Things happen: an illness, a break-up, a new job, an overwhelming to-do list. Sometimes they get on top of us. Sometimes they hurt.
Challenges and setbacks are part of life, of being human... But how we respond is up to us. There's much more choice than we realise.
Mindfulness meditation is an powerful approach to managing stress and anxiety. It is a way of reclaiming our lives and finding our way back to clarity, calm and creativity. In fact it is a powerful resource for anyone wanting to live and relate more consciously, happily and effectively.
Mindfulness meditation is easy to learn: it is as natural as your next breath or your next step, and yet it will bring a new quality of engagement and confidence to everything you do.
Mindfulness is for everyone. Quite simply it makes life work better. Much better.
Some benefits you can expect:
Handle difficulties without stress
Distinguish subjective thoughts from objective facts
Make clear and conscious choices
Discover the true richness of your experience, moment by moment
Listen more attentively
Communicate more clearly
Direct your thoughts appropriately
Our Courses
We are running eight-week mindfulness courses in Stroud, Cheltenham, Bristol and Gloucester, as well as morning taster and top-up sessions. We usually have between six and twelve people on each course. Each session lasts two hours and is accompanied with CDs and a workbook.
If a course setting does not work for you, we are usually able to arrange one-to-one session and courses to suite your timetable.
For details, prices, dates of forthcoming courses, etc, please check out our website. Early-bird and concessionary prices are available.
Mindfulness Taster Sessions
are held regularly in Stroud: These run from 10am until 1.00pm and offer a range of guided mindfulness practices and a chance to talk about them over tea.
Our next two sessions:
Sunday May 8th and Sunday June 12th
Who Are We?
Terry Pilchick
Terry has been practising, teaching and writing about meditation and mindfulness since the early 1970's.
He has trained with the University of Bangor's Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, the Breathworks mindfulness-based pain management program, and supported courses the London-based 'Breathing Space' mindfulness-based programs for depression and addiction. He has also developed and run a mindfulness-based program for quitting smokers.
He works as a meditation teacher, mentor and life-coach in the UK, the USA and New Zealand.
Marianne Brady
Marianne started meditating in 1982 and has taught meditation for twenty years, including thirteen years full-time at the London Buddhist Centre, as well as in the corporate world in the UK & overseas. She has run residential intensive mindfulness retreats and workshops. She is trained in mindfulness approaches to stress and pain management with the Breathworks training program and Breathing Space the London Buddhist Centre's mindfulness-based programmes where she has led courses in MBCT.
Shantigarbha Warren
Shantigarbha has 25 years experience of practising and teaching Mindfulness.
He’s trained to teach the programme at Jon Kabat-Zin’s Center for Mindfulness in Massachusetts, USA. He's applied mindfulness in his work at various times as a professional fundraiser, a charity manager and trustee, as the Sales and Marketing manager for a software company, in a psychiatric hospital, as a magazine editor and publisher, and teaching mediation and conflict resolution.
He's also certified with the international Centre for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC.org) to teach Nonviolent Communication (NVC). He teaches in the UK, continental Europe, the USA and India/Sri Lanka. He's the author of a forthcoming book on empathy.
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