Brief Description:

Train the mind to reduce stress by taking time to unplug from a busy schedule and connect with what matters most to you. Are you ready to find a different way of dealing with stress, anxiety and feeling low? Would you like to learn to still your busy mind and switch off in order to fully relax? Mindfulness meditation, if practiced regularly, can help you to take better care of your health and wellbeing. This eight-week programme will teach you different ways of meditating, so that you can adapt how you practice to your lifestyle. By learning as a group, you will support each other to challenge learnt behaviours and habits that may be contributing to feeling stressed and far from your best.  

N.B: So that you can adapt your practice to suit your lifestyle mobile phones to be switched off during the class. 

 Please note:

This course is funded by Cambridgeshire Skills, so full attendance is required; you will also need to complete an enrolment form so that the office can apply for the funding and complete an individual learning plan weekly with your tutor.

This course may be fully funded if:
You are over 19 years old
You live within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough combined authority
and have lived in the UK / an EEA country for the last 3 years.

Contact the office if you would like to confirm your eligibility.

If you do not qualify for funding but would still like to attend contact the office for a price.

Previous Experience and Knowledge Needed?

This course is open to beginners to mindfulness meditation, as well as those with some experience, who wish to develop practice and confidence. The teaching approach is experiential, rather than academic, and invites learners to commit to practising meditation at home daily, in order to consolidate the new skills learnt. 

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of the course, you will have the opportunity to:

• Be competent and confident in your personal meditation practice 
• Have a deeper understanding of the science of stress and its impact on behaviours 
• Exercise the ability to intervene at an earlier stage in the stress build-up and reduce its impact on wellbeing 
• Connect with others to support home-practice and create a social support network 
• Practice silence for up to 20 minutes in each meditation practice 

Extra costs on the course for example text book, materials or equipment

Learners will need a fresh and personalised notebook, in which to journal, as well as a set of coloured pens/ pencils. Notebooks will be provided if needed.

Bringing a small cushion and shawl/ small blanket will help learners feel more comfortable, when practising outdoors inclement weather 

For the first session you will need to bring:

Learners will need a fresh and personalised notebook, in which to journal, as well as a set of coloured pens/ pencils. 

Bringing a small cushion and shawl/ small blanket will help learners feel more comfortable, when practising outdoors inclement weather 

On completion of this course, what might your next steps be?

Talk to your health care providers, e.g. social prescriber, about how mindfulness meditation can support your wellbeing along with other treatment and social support options. 

To continue practicing at home and integrating the new skills into your lifestyle 

To connect with local meditation practice networks via social media   

To explore the origins of secular mindfulness meditation by exploring its spiritual dimension at  at the Cambridge Buddhist Centre 

To download an app to support home-practice.