Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a highly researched and popular programme that cultivates mindfulness in everyday life, improving health and easing stress.
Course Overview
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is a highly researched and popular programme that cultivates mindfulness in everyday life, improving health and easing stress.
We offer an adaptation of Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn’s original MBSR course, incorporating our own work, alongside that of leading authorities in the world of neurobiology and meditation.
Week 1: An Introduction to Meditation
Being present
Week 2: Awareness of Awareness
The key to living in harmony
Week 3: Coming Back to the Present Moment
Mindfulness of breath and our body
Week 4: Recognising Stress
Exploring our relationship to stress
Week 5: Mindful Perception
How the brain creates our mental world
Week 6: Mindfulness in Relationships
Integrating our mental world with others
Week 7: Mindful Living
Taking our lives into our hands
Week 8: Keep Taking the Meditation!
Sustaining our practice
Led by an experienced facilitator and backed by scientific research presented in an easy to understand format, each session covers particular exercises and topics that are examined within the context of mindfulness.
These include different forms of mindfulness meditation practice and mindful awareness and are designed to guide you through establishing (or deepening) a meditation practice, thereby allowing mindfulness to become part of your day to day life.
Personal workbooks and meditation downloads are provided for all participants, along with inter-class support.
Expected Outcomes
Mindfulness has been the subject of growing attention and interest in recent years, thanks to a rapidly expanding evidence base. This demonstrates it can be helpful for many mental and physical health problems, such as stress, anxiety, high blood pressure, IBS, CFS/ME, fibromyalgia and depression, in addition to promoting general physical and emotional wellbeing (Mindfulness Research, 2011).
Researched benefits include:
A greater capacity for relaxation and calmness
Less worry, anxiety and lower instances of depressive episodes
Enhanced emotional control, resourcefulness and resilience
Improved self-confidence and creativity
Better sleep quality
About
We are a group of committed mindfulness practitioners who share a common passion for the transformational power of mindfulness.
We each specialise in specific areas of mindfulness according to our personal interests and professional backgrounds, offering mindfulness training in organisations.
Robert Broughton
Managing Director of NCMC, Mindfulness Instructor, Supervisor and Mentor
Robert’s work is continually inspired by his own practice, a fascination of mind and emotions, and a concern for the wellbeing of others. He believes we all have the potential to improve our quality of life through greater awareness, compassion and authenticity.
Journey to mindfulness
Robert’s initial introduction to meditation was through martial arts where he found meditation both calming and a natural approach into greater embodiment of the skills being taught. Reading Sogyal Rinpoche’s book ‘The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying’ in 1997 lead to a more serious meditation practice.
Whilst studying emotional intelligence in 2007 Robert was inspired by Jon Kabat-Zinn’s MBSR course. Since then he hasn’t looked back taking much enjoyment and inspiration from his own ongoing practice and teaching mindfulness.
Teaching experience
Robert started teaching meditation courses in 2009. Since then he has taught over 100 mindfulness courses within the NHS, Cancer Charities, Schools and to the public. He has also spoken about mindfulness in healthcare on many occasions and in 2014 he was invited to join Leeds University/White Rose Consortium for Mindfulness in Education research team as an expert member. Robert qualified as a mindfulness supervisor and mentor from Bangor University in 2017.
Continued personal & professional development
Robert enjoys studying, reading and practicing mindfulness meditation. He embraces Buddhist philosophy and western psychology, psychoanalysis and neuroscience and views his personal development as core to his teaching.
Personal interests and hobbies
In his spare time Robert enjoys mountain trekking including achieving a life time aspiration in 2017 of climbing to Mount Everest Base Camp. He is also a keen explorer of the natural world, contemplative photographer and book collector.
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