The mindfulness-based stress reduction programme is designed to help you learn new ways of handling difficult physical sensations, feelings and moods. The course we teach is an amalgamation of the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy course, developed by the clinical psychologists Zindel Segal, Mark Williams and John Teasdale and the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course developed by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in the USA.

The core skill that you will learn is ‘mindfulness’ – a way of paying attention, on purpose and non-judgementally, to what goes on in the present moment in your body, mind, and the world around you. Mindfulness can enable you to see things differently, undoing mental and physical knots and tensions. It can increase your sense of personal confidence, of having more options and more strength to face the different challenges in your life.

Most people completing MBSR programmes report that they gain lasting benefits, such as:

- more energy and enthusiasm
- a greater capacity for relaxation
- more self-confidence
- an increased ability to handle stressful situations

Find out when our MBSR courses run.