• Connect with others on this topic to help find more resilience and an increased sense of agency to bring compassion into action.
• Become more clear on what resources, nourishes and grounds you.
• Delve into practices that can help discover new and empowering perspectives.
• Explore the relationship between any emotions that show up and the love you feel for people/planet, to find a different way of relating to them.
• Experience our essential interconnectness with all life and sense the earth as an ever-present resource for deeply grounding ourselves.
• Move towards finding what your realistic and enjoyable contribution can be, rather than feeling that whatever you do is never enough.

In this weekend we will build on mindfulness and compassion practices with Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, a skilful method that grew out of her decades long environmental activism and deep understanding of Buddhism. Through a mix of meditations and interactive exercises, we will resource and nourish ourselves with gratitude and connection, so we have more capacity for holding difficult feelings. We’ll explore new perspectives that empower and encourage to see how we can mindfully and practically bring our compassion into action. Whether it’s local or global issues that have you worried, frustrated or overwhelmed, or whether you know you care but just feel a bit numb with it all, this course will offer supportive conditions to ‘turn towards’ rather than away, in the good company of others.

The practices will facilitate a growing grounding in ourselves and the presence of the earth, as well as connection with each other and the interconnectness with all life.

Pre-requisites

For this course it is recommended that you have some mindfulness meditation experience. This could be the Level 1 training with the Mindfulness Association or an 8 week mindfulness course whether it be MBSR, MBLC or any other along those lines or it could be equivalent experience.

Tutor: Kristine Mackenzie-Janson and Donald Gordon

Dates: 25-26 April 2026

Price: £185.00

Location: to be confirmed

Times: The course will run from 10.00am-17.00pm on Saturday and Sunday.

Booking: To book this course please contact: info@mindfulnessassociation.net