Birthday Celebrations Last Monday Mindful Therapies celebrated our third birthday. It was a low-key celebration with some tea and cake with some of our team, regular class attendees and our partners. It was a lovely opportunity for people who work for Mindful Therapies to meet one another, in some cases for the first time. As [...]
This is a group poem written by participants at a recent 8-week mindfulness course in North Tyneside. The group were given three questions as prompts ‘mindfulness is…’, ‘happiness is…’ and ‘awareness is…’ The responses from all participants were then combined to create a unique, collaborative poem. This is the result: Laughing Together Breathe, calm, Pleasure [...]
The Senses We experience the world in two main ways – through our minds and through our senses. When we experience the world through the mind we are often stuck in fantasy, or we are stuck in memories about the past or worries about the future. When we experience the world through our senses we [...]
Rachel Jones-Wild Mindful Therapies Sleep and the Mindfulness Paradox Often when we are struggling to sleep we do whatever we can to try to fall asleep. We end up clock-watching, thinking about how little time we have left before the alarm is due to go off. We worry about whether we will sleep [...]
My Mindfulness Journey About a million moons ago, I was asked to write a blog entitled 'My Mindful(ness) Journey'....The fact that I am only now coming up with the goods, is a fairly clear indication that I am still a 'work in progress'. As we all are of course! However for many of us [...]
Last week we wrote about mindfulness in the workplace. This week I want to look at mindfulness in one specific workplace - our own. Setting up a business is difficult and can be all-consuming. This can make it very difficult to put into practice everything that we advocate to others. More than half of small [...]
Imagine you are given some feedback at work. Chances are that within that feedback there was a whole list of positives and then maybe a little constructive criticism, or room for improvement. How did you feel when you read or heard this? What did you think? Which parts did you choose to focus on? Most [...]
When we established Mindful Therapies in 2013 (then known as Mindfulness Based Therapies) I was clear that my vision was to provide the benefits of mindfulness to as many people as possible, regardless of income. The vision was to bring mindfulness to the masses. As we developed, we more firmly established our values and mission [...]
Mark Sidney, Business Development Director, Mindful Therapies Employee satisfaction, workplace harmony and company loyalty Mindfulness training is increasingly being implemented for organisational and workforce development. Some of the world’s leading companies from Google and Apple to the NHS and Transport for London have invested in mindfulness training for their employees. Even Harvard Business School includes mindfulness [...]
Mark Sidney, Business Development Manager, Mindful Therapies Improved decision making, Greater creativity and increased focus and concentration Mindfulness training is increasingly being implemented for business development. Some of the world’s leading companies from Google and Apple to the NHS and Transport for London have invested in mindfulness training for their employees. Even Harvard Business School includes [...]