Hybrid Deeper Mindfulness Feb 2025 (Attend in person or online)

Hybrid Deeper Mindfulness - 8 week course

Join TMG and Dr Neil Pillai for our 8-week Hybrid Deeper Mindfulness course where you can attend either in person or online.

This training is suitable for both those new to Mindfulness AND for those who have experience of Mindfulness who wish to deepen their Mindfulness practice. It is informed by recent psychological findings revealing that in every waking moment, our understanding of the world is dominated by imagining how we can take action within it, coloured by what is called ‘feeling tone’.

Feeling tone is the moment-by-moment ‘read-out’ of how much a sensation, thought or emotion feels pleasant, unpleasant, or neither. Based on this moment-by-moment ‘read out’, the body allocates its resources as it gears up for real or imagined action. This can prepare us well for action, but it can also put us at risk of becoming exhausted without our realising it.

During these eight weeks you will learn meditations that prepare you for, then help you tune in to feeling tone frame by frame. This provides an opportunity to see more clearly both the tipping points for distress and exhaustion and also how to flourish by freeing yourself to appreciate life again, even in the midst of difficulty.

On this course you will learn the following skills:

• How to ‘find your ground’ by exploring different ways to anchor your attention, to see what provides the most helpful way of stabilising and calming your mind
• How to take a pause when your mind wanders, and to cultivate a sense of kindness and gratitude for the mind’s activity instead of seeing it as an enemy to be overcome
• How to recognise the feeling tone of any contact with mind and body, and how it is the tipping point for reactions that are often self-defeating •
• How to allow feeling tone to be present for longer without reacting, so the mind is freed from habitual cascades of stress and exhaustion
• How to see when and how the body gears up for action unnecessarily, and how to allay the busyness to allow wise action to emerge
• How to use mindfulness of feeling tone to help turn towards difficult emotions and concerns
• How to use mindfulness of feeling tone to notice moments of appreciation in your everyday life and to deal skilfully with the symptoms of exhaustion (e.g., procrastination)
• In the final session you will learn ways to sustain your mindfulness practice, including a template for a year of practice you can use or adapt

Course Dates

This face to face course runs for 8 weeks on a Thursday evening from 18:00 - 20:00 at Ivy Court Surgery in Tenterden with a one week break in the middle. The dates are:

• Thursday 13th Feb 2025
• Thursday 20th Feb 2025
• Thursday 27th Feb 2025
• Thursday 6th Mar 2025
• Mid Course Break
• Thursday 20th Mar 2025
• Thursday 27th Mar 2025
• Thursday 3rd Apr 2025
• Thursday 10th Apr 2025

Costs

The cost of this course is £175.00

(If you can afford to pay more and would like to do so in order to support the Charity in its work to support the wellbeing of those on lower incomes, you can enter your preferred amount during the checkout process.)

Course Materials

We will provide you with a participant handbook however in addition participants are required to purchase the following book themselves prior to the start of the course:

• Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World by Mark Williams and Danny Penman

The book is available from Amazon or other online retailers.

Post Course Support

On completion of the course you will be able to attend our on-going program of Hybrid Mindulness Drop In sessions.

TMG is a registered UK charity whose sole purpose is to improve the physical and mental wellbeing of our community through the practice of Mindfulness.

As a charitable organisation, Tenterden Mindfulness Group want to support as many people as we can to access Mindfulness, so if you are unable to afford the full event fee, please contact our office PRIOR to booking at contact@tenterdenmindfulness.co.uk to discuss your situation.

TMG reserves the right to cancel or postpone this event within a week of the start date should insufficient bookings make running it unviable.