What is Mindfulness?

Mindfulness is a way of being with and attending to experience with awareness rather than judgement. It is about learning to bring a sense of approach and acceptance to the present moment, just as it is, however pleasant or unpleasant, easy or difficult.

Mindfulness is also a practice and lifeskill, a set of tools to develop insight, clarity and discernment into the vast range of feelings, sensations and thoughts that comprise the human condition.

Mindfulness helps you to become more aware of the unhelpful thought patterns that can trigger and perpetuate stress, anxiety and low moods. With that awareness comes choice and an improved ability to respond skillfully to life's hurdles.

...to live life as if each moment is important,
as if each moment counted and could be worked with,
even if it is a moment of pain, sadness or fear.

John Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living

Mindfulness One2One

I use a range of mindfulness-based approaches to deliver a highly structured, experiential mentoring program with a major emphasis on personal meditation practice and the cultivation of attentive self-compassion.

The therapy is a blend of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) which are specifically designed to teach people practical skills that can help with life challenges and physical and psychological health problems.

Both MBSR & MBCT are commonly delivered in a group format over an eight week course, however the benefits are equally if not more applicable to individual therapy, where personal issues can be explored in more depth and safety and there is greater opportunity to be fully present in the therapeutic relationship.

He who binds himself to joy
Does the winged life destroy
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sunrise
William Blake