MINDFULNESS FOR STRESS ONLINE COURSE - 17 October 2024

Mindfulness for Stress is an 8-week course where you will learn life-long skills to reduce stress and anxiety, find greater resilience and boost your wellbeing. 

Complete beginners and seasoned meditators with each get something from this course.

We teach a secular mindfulness approach that is practical, giving you accessible tools that you can apply right away. Across 8 weeks, the time shown to create a habit, you will learn how to embed the skill of mindfulness in your life through meditation, mindful movement and everyday practices.

Numerous research studies and clinical trials show the effectiveness of mindfulness for mental health. This course aims to equip you with tools to better manage stress as well as how to simply live your life more fully. 

Find out more about our Mindfulness for Stress Course. 

Our mission is to make mindfulness accessible to everyone, if you are experiencing financial challenges we offer places on a pay-what-you-can basis, see our Pricing Rates for more.

HOW YOU WILL BENEFIT

If you have tried and failed with meditation apps and you are looking for deeper learning that creates lasting change, this course is for you. 

During the course, you will learn:

• A deep understanding of mindfulness and how to embed it in your daily life

• How to create a meditation habit

• How to harness the power of your mind to enhance your everyday life 

• How breath and body awareness can transform stress

• Tools to help you re-balance negativity bias

• How to identify and prevent burnout 

• The practice of Compassion and how it can help you feel more connected and less stressed

• Mindful movement - another form of creating present moment awareness

WHAT’S INCLUDED?

• An online e-learning platform with lifetime access to course materials, guided meditations and resources

• A supportive online group space where you can share learnings and get direct feedback from your teacher 

• A toolkit of practices, including meditation, mindful movement and everyday ‘habit releasers’

• Access to our Community of Practice platform - a mindfulness social hub and library at your fingertips with regular live events and resources to support your practice

HOW YOU WILL TAKE PART

This course runs online, with sessions across 8 weeks. You will be guided by an experienced Teacher and learn alongside a supportive group of up to 15 others.  

• Weekly live learning sessions includes instruction, practice and group sharing with other participants  

• Practise on your own at home with daily meditations of 10 - 20 mins and ’mindfulness in daily life’ exercises

• Short learning materials to watch, listen to and read in your own time each week 

Book My Place

Event details

Where

Online 

The course will be held on our easy to use virtual learning platform Community of Practice, and the sessions will be held via Zoom - an easy-to-use online webinar/conference call programme. 

The practices and guided meditations will be available online anytime, and you will be able to share reflections and questions with your teacher and group via an online discussion forum.

When

Start: Thursday, 17 October 2024

End: Thursday, 5 December 2024

Live session times:

The times given are those in the United Kingdom.  If you are joining from elsewhere in the world you can use this Time Zone Converter to work out the times for you in our own country.

Thursdays, 16.00pm to 18.00pm UK time*

	Live session date	Live session time(UK time)
Session 1	17 October 2024	16.00 - 18:30
Session 2	24 October 2024	16.00 - 18:00
Session 3	31 October 2024	16.00 - 18:00
Session 4	07 November 2024	16.00 - 18:00
Session 5	14 November 2024	16.00 - 18:00
Session 6	21 November 2024	16.00 - 18:00
Session 7	28 November 2024	16.00 - 18:00
Session 8	05 December 2024	16.00 - 18:00

*the first live session will be 2 ½ hours long to allow time for orientation & introductions, other sessions will all be 2 hours long

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Your Teacher This course will be led by experienced Breathworks teacher Stanter Kandola.  Stanter was diagnosed with severe Rheumatoid arthritis in her teens, Stanter Kandola – founder of ‘Open Mind’ – was told that she would end up in a wheelchair.  Instead, she embarked upon a journey of self-discovery and is now a freelance mindfulness teacher and coach, delivering mindfulness workshops and courses across Yorkshire.  For the last 29 years, Stanter has embraced a holistic approach to her health and wellbeing, exploring different ideas and techniques from established teachers such as Tara Brach and Ken Wilber, incorporating their teachings into her daily life.  She also discovered the practice of mindfulness.  An experienced and qualified manager, adept at coaching and training delivery, Stanter holds a BA in Social Anthropology (School of African and Oriental Studies University of London, 1997) and is a fully Accredited Breathworks Mindfulness teacher (2014).  In 2017 she trained with the ‘Mindfulness in Schools Project’ qualifying to deliver their ten-week Dot B programme to children. Stanter played a leading part in developing a pain clinic in West Yorkshire, which was nominated for an outstanding performance award at national level.  Stanter has delivered mindfulness sessions – either one-to-one bespoke sessions or group workshops – to local government; NHS staff; fostering services; Neurological Centre, Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Survivors services.  She is experienced in working with complex clients suffering from long-term health and mental health conditions, and trauma including Manchester Bombing victims.   Stanter has defied her original prognosis.  She has walked on hot coals, lived on the River Ganges, meditated in the desert and by the ocean.   She lives life to the full.

Cost

Individual	Concession	Organisation
£295	£225	£395

For our Cancellation & Refund Policy, please see here.

Pricing Guidelines

Breathworks is a charitable organisation with a mission to make the benefits of mindfulness accessible to everyone. To help remove barriers for people in financial hardship, we offer a limited number of concessionary and bursary places on events and courses. We operate our booking system on the basis of self-assessment and trust. Please have a careful read of our eligibility guide below, and contact us if you have any further questions.

Concessionary Rate

Applies to individuals with an income of less than £22,000 a year (or less than £25,000 if you live in London). If your annual income is higher than this and would like to discuss your eligibility for a concessionary place for other reasons, please contact us.

Bursary Places

A limited number of bursary places are reserved for individuals with significant barriers that limit them from affording the Concessionary Rate. As we want as many people as possible to benefit from Breathworks courses, we ask you to consider how much you are able to fund yourself. Subject to available funds, our charitable fund will cover the remainder of the course fee. To apply, please complete this form and click submit.

Organisation Rate

For organisations booking on behalf of their employees (cost is for one place).

Please note: to participate on this course we require you to submit the registration form that will be provided after payment.