A few months ago, my very confident son came to me and told me that he was feeling really panicky. I was quite shocked. He was always so self- assured. When I asked him some questions about what was going on, it came out that he was starting to stress about his Christmas Exams. He…
One of the staple questions asked in mindfulness sessions is a reflection question that suggests we visualise the question as if it were like pebble in a pond, dropping down and rippling out. It invites us to connect with what bubbles up from the storehouse of our deepest-or not so deepest thoughts-and what might we…
Last week I was at Samye Ling teaching the first Compassion Based Living Course (CBLC) teaching skills retreat. So we now have 21 Compassion teachers trained to teach the course, ready to share the transformative power of Compassion, which is wonderful. During the retreat we work in groups with each person delivering part of the…
As a Mindfulness Teacher, I have felt quite blessed. I have been fortunate enough to teach the 8 week MBLC locally, in my home community where I live in Ireland; while at the same time, travelling afar and teaching on the Mindfulness Association’s 4 weekend Practitioner Certificate courses. It has been an incredibly rich experience…
At our Compassion in Action weekend, we will be launching the Mindfulness Association’s “Everyone Project”, which is aimed at providing eight week MBLC courses to groups who would benefit from Mindfulness but who otherwise would not be able to access Mindfulness training. We have a pool of hundreds of Mindfulness teachers that we have trained to…
In conversations with friends recently, I have been struck by how distressed they are about some of the things that are happening in our world and I wanted to share with you some thoughts on this. The work of Professor Steven Pinker has shown clearly that human violence has declined throughout recorded history, until the…
Mindfulness in Newcastle It is with great pleasure that I can announce that my colleague Ani Tselha and I are co-delivering the Introductory Mindfulness Practitioner Foundation Course for the Mindfulness Association in Newcastle upon Tyne at Northumbria University, May 28th/29th 2016. This is the first time the Foundation Course has been delivered in Newcastle. For…
For over 3 years, I’ve been engaging as a supervisee in mindful supervision. Every month, for 30 minutes, I get “supervised”. But what is supervision in the context of mindfulness? The word “supervision” could be problematic, suggesting a model close to a therapeutic one (which it does have similarities to) and a possible hierarchical…
Is it me or do long term Mindfulness practitioners age more slowly than the general population? One thing we all have in common is that we are all getting old, and a set of interesting research is emerging to suggest that lifestyle changes, such as those that come about through Mindfulness practice, can help…
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