The Nottingham Centre for Mindfulness in Nottinghamshire Healthcare Trust are now offering several mindfulness options free to Health and Social care staff through the NHS Staff well-being HUB.
Mindfulness drop-in sessions are open to all. No need to apply and everyone is welcome, whether you are an experienced meditator or new to meditation. Sessions last for 15 mins and are led by an experienced mindfulness teacher. Our sessions are held online via MS Teams on Tuesdays at 08:30 and Thursdays at 12:30. To access the sessions please email: hubmindfulness@nottshc.nhs.uk and one of the team will share link needed to join the Teams session. If you happen to work at Nottinghamshire Healthcare, you can find a link via the Trust intranet.
This 2-hour workshop includes short mindfulness practices, additional resources and advice on where to find support.
Self-compassion has been shown to be beneficial to our psychological wellbeing, so why can it be so hard to be compassionate towards ourselves? This 2-hour workshop explores ways of cultivating greater levels of self-compassion and ways of bringing this into our lives.
You are warmly invited to join this 2-hour workshop ‘Mindfulness for the menopause’. The workshop is for any woman whether you are pre-menopausal perimenopausal or post-menopausal. The workshop will explore approaching this natural yet often challenging transition using simple yet powerful ways of relating mindfully to thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations.
This 2-hour workshop will explore how our habits associated with eating can occur automatically, out of our awareness. Through mindfulness practices we will begin to see how we can become more aware of our thoughts, emotions and bodily sensations; allowing us to slow down and savour our food.
Leaders play a crucial role in the wellbeing of staff and effectiveness of an organisation. Whilst rewarding, being a leader brings particular responsibilities and challenges that can be highly stressful. Leaders are equally at risk of high levels of stress and other psychological wellbeing problems as the staff that they lead, yet it is recognised that it can be difficult for leaders to acknowledge this and take action to address it. Mindfulness is recommended in the NICE guidelines for staff wellbeing, recent results from the mindfulness service here in Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust show practising mindfulness can improve wellbeing and reduce stress, anxiety and depression.
If you are interested in how mindfulness may support your wellbeing and optimise your leadership potential, then this two-hour workshop might be for you.
Workshops are led by an experienced mindfulness teacher from the Nottingham Centre for Mindfulness and are held via MS Teams, for available dates please email: hubmindfulness@nottshc.nhs.uk
This 6-week course of 1-hour sessions per week is designed to be an easy and accessible way of bringing mindfulness into daily life. This course emphasises not only the importance of managing difficulties such as stress, but also seeks to support a greater degree of wellbeing and flourishing through awareness, self- compassion and appreciation of frequently overlooked aspects of daily life.
The 8-week course of 2 hours a week offers mindfulness practices and cognitive behavioural exercises that can enhance our wellbeing and flourishing. As we cultivate attitudes of interest and friendliness toward all of our experiences, whether pleasant or unpleasant, we learn skills for keeping our balance through life’s ups and downs. When difficulties arise, we learn to respond skilfully and engage with what is most important to us, opening to moments of joy, contentment, and gratitude.
The 8 week course of 2 hour sessions is for anyone who is experiencing depression and wishes to enhance their general wellbeing through a greater awareness of automatic patterns of thinking. The course combines mindfulness meditation with cognitive – behavioural therapy exercises which enable us to become more aware of our mind and body and begin to dissolve some of our unhelpful habits of thinking such as critical thinking, worry and rumination.
This is a new eight-week course of two hour weekly sessions is developed by Mark Williams and colleagues, designed for those who have already completed a mindfulness-based programme and want to explore mindfulness more deeply.
It is informed by recent psychological findings revealing that our understanding of the world is dominated by imagining how we can take action within it, coloured by what is called ‘feeling tone’; the sense of how pleasant or unpleasant each moment is for us. Greater awareness of the ‘feeling tone’ of each moment can support us in getting the most out of our experiences.
During the eight weekly sessions, 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.
All of our groups are led by an experienced mindfulness teacher from the Nottingham Centre for Mindfulness and are held via MS Teams, for available dates and to apply please email: hubmindfulness@nottshc.nhs.uk