Mindful Based Living Course
Next Course
12 March – 7 May 2025
Cost
£220
Early bird and concessionary places available
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Key Themes
The Mindfulness Based Living Course (MBLC) is an 8-week mindfulness course with kindness and compassion at its centre. The course is accredited by the UK Mindfulness Association and is experiential with an emphasis on self-practice and self-reflection
Beginning with short mindful practices and exercises we will learn and develop the foundations of mindfulness, building our practice and understanding weekly to include longer practices, mindfulness support, self-awareness, kindness to ourselves and others, and openness to our human experience. We will learn about the habits and patterns of thinking within our minds and how to be with difficult emotions.
The aims of the MBLC course is to:
- Help participants experience mindfulness in a safe supportive environment.
- Develop an ongoing personal mindfulness home practice.
- Apply mindfulness in their daily lives.
- Cultivate kindness and compassion for self and others.
- Deepen understanding of the way we think, feel and react to difficult situations and to understand and practice mindful responses.
- Develop new ways of handling challenging physical sensations, feelings, moods or experience.
About this course
The many benefits of this course are;
🌸 A reduction in anxiety and low mood.
🧘♀️ A better handling of the overthinking mind.
🌸 Improved sleep.
🧘♀️ Improved concentration.
🌸 Enjoying the present moment.
🧘♀️ Feeling less reactive and angry.
🌸 Increased gratitude for life and the everyday things.
🧘♀️ Deeper understanding into why our mind is the way it is, and where that stems from.
🌸 Feeling more relaxed, calm, and emotionally balanced.
This course is for you if:
- You are new to mindfulness and would like to learn techniques to bring about long lasting changes in your life.
- You have been attending ad hoc mindfulness sessions in a group or practicing on your own and would now like a concise, sequential programme to put everything together and into perspective.
- You have been practicing mindfulness for sometime and would now like to realign and strengthen your daily practice.
Dates:
Wednesday 12th March – Wednesday 7th May 2025
(No session on Wednesday 2nd May 2025)
Weeks 1 – 8 of the course.
Weeks 1 – 8 of the course.
Sunday 27th April 2025
Full Day of Practice/Silent Mindfulness Day and Sound Bath
Full Day of Practice/Silent Mindfulness Day and Sound Bath
Date to be confirmed
Follow up session
What’s included:
- 8 x 2 hour weekly guided mindfulness sessions.
- Full silent retreat day with sound bath.
- Follow up session approximately 4 weeks after the final week.
- Course manual and handouts.
- Audio of meditations to listen to at home (via an app).
Venue
Horton and Chalbury Village Hall
Investment
£220
Early Bird offering of £190 if booked by paid by 10 February 2025.