From Mindfulness to Compassion to Insight 11 – 14 July 2019 Victor Frankl famously said: ‘Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space there is a power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom’. What might it be like to choose our response to that which […]
The World Health Organization (WHO) reports on its website that around 20% of children and adolescents suffer from mental health problems or disorders and states that approximately half of all mental health disorders start before…
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Last week, as I was scrolling through my Facebook feed, I stumbled upon this quotation from the Irish poet and philosopher John O’Donohue, which I feel really emphasizes the benefits of mindfulness: It is far…
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Whenever I am moving about the world and meeting new people, I often get asked the question “What do you do?” This question mostly refers to what I do to financially support myself. Though, I…
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Last week I was teaching on the MBLC teaching skills retreat. This causes a lot of our participants to go into anxiety meltdown as they have to be assessed while teaching session extracts from the…
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Forget about enlightenment. Sit down wherever you are And listen to the wind singing in your veins. Feel the love, the longing, the fear in your bones. Open your heart to who you are, right…
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I am just on the ferry to the mainland from Holy Isle off the Isle of Arran on the way back from the Year 1 year end retreat of the MSc: Studies in Mindfulness. It…
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