Articles and blog posts written by team members, tutors and supervisors of the Mindfulness Association about how they bring mindfulness into their lives.

The Power of Sanctuary

The Power of Sanctuary

Have you ever wished you could be transported to a peaceful desert island—somewhere quiet enough to finally hear yourself think? Or arrived at a familiar, beloved place, like a treasured holiday spot or a retreat centre, and felt your body soften the moment you got there? Where we are matters. Environments profoundly shape how we feel…

second-generation-mindfulness

Have you heard of Second-Generation Mindfulness?

What is Second-Generation Mindfulness? The Mindfulness Association’s mindfulness trainings, including our eight-week Mindfulness Based Living Course (MBLC) are second-generation mindfulness-based approaches (SG-MBAs). Second-generation mindfulness-based approaches represent a development beyond traditional, first-generation approaches, such as MBSR and MBCT. Second generation approaches aim to offer a more comprehensive and authentic approach to mindfulness by grounding it more…

Finding Compassion Blog

Finding Compassion Within

You’ve spent time learning to sit quietly, observing your inner experience with gentle curiosity. But now, the next step invites you to venture deeper—not just to observe, but to embrace every part of yourself with tenderness and discover how in doing so we can nourish the heart of compassion in ourselves. This is the essence…

Five years of daily sit blog

Five Years of the Daily Sit

When it became clear at the start of the pandemic that a lock down was likely and that people would need support, both Kristine and I had the same idea. Some online guided meditation sessions on Zoom. We agreed with the team that we could provide this every evening at 7pm and our first daily…