Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction

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

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Mindfulness-Based Pain Management

The Breathworks Living Well with Pain and Illness Course is a self-management mindfulness-based programme aimed at anyone wanting to learn new strategies for managing chronic physical pain and ill health.

Pain and illness are innately unpleasant and inevitably many of us develop unhelpful habits in reaction such as aversion, avoidance and tension. This just adds to our overall experience of suffering. Mindfulness can help us break this cycle of reactivity and regain a sense of initiative, confidence and control. Paradoxically, by learning to live with our pain or illness we can broaden our perspective and experience a greatly improved quality of life.

Who is the programme for?

The programme is open to all on a self-referral basis. So far we have welcomed people with conditions such as chronic back pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, post-operative pain, cancer, multiple sclerosis, parkinson’s disease, and other non-specific pain. This list is not exhaustive and we welcome your enquiry whatever your condition.

The only requirement for joining the course is a willingness and commitment to engage fully with the programme, which will involve practice at home between sessions for 30 - 45 minutes a day.

Price includes 3 CD's, workbook and day retreat.

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