MINDFULNESS WITH ROLY
ABOUT MINDFULNESS & MBCT
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention to present-moment experience with curiosity and kindness. Research has shown that regular mindfulness practice can help reduce stress, improve wellbeing and support resilience in everyday life.
I teach mindfulness through eight-week courses and monthly practice sessions in Stoke Gabriel (Devon, UK), welcoming people from across Torbay, Totnes and the South Hams. Together we explore simple practices that can be integrated into daily life, helping us respond more skilfully to life's challenges.
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is the integration of Cognitive Therapy for depression with mindfulness approaches. The MBCT training helps to free us from the grip of two processes that lie at the route of depression and other emotional problems:
1. the tendency to ruminate, overthink or worry too much about things
coupled with
2. a tendency to avoid, suppress or push away other things.
The 8 Week MBCT Course
The original 8 week Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) course was developed by Zindel Segal, Mark Williams and John Teasdale. The MBCT course was originally designed specifically to help people who suffer repeated bouts of depression. Research has also shown MBCT to be useful helping people cope with anxiety and emotional distress, but can also be used by anyone to help them live life to the full.
MBCT for Life (MBCT-L)
More recently, the original MBCT for depression course has been developed to be accessible to all. It now explores different ways to manage what is painful and difficult but also to cultivate qualities such as compassion and equanimity. The new MBCT for life course offers a different way of living that supports people to work with challenges, including recurring patterns of thought and behaviour that create suffering, but also to savour life and to flourish.
Finding Peace in a Frantic World
This course is a development of the 8 week MBCT course, and is based on the best-selling book by Mark Williams and Danny Penman. The course provides a practical and accessible introduction to mindfulness, with 8 weekly sessions of 90 -120 minutes, and home practices of 10-20 minutes. It includes practices and exercises for working with stress and for increasing wellbeing and resilience.
Deeper Mindfulenss
This course is based on the book by Mark Williams and Danny Penman. The aim of this course is to help people deepen their practice through exploring feeling tone (whether any experience is pleasant,
unpleasant or neither). The course provides a practical and accessible introduction to mindfulness, with 8 weekly sessions of 60-75 minutes, and home practices of 10-30 minutes. It includes practices and exercises for working with stress and for increasing wellbeing and resilience.
