We offer comprehensive, high-quality mindfulness training for beginners and more experienced practitioners in Sussex and beyond. Our programme is designed to help people start and sustain a mindfulness practice, as well as bring mindfulness to the challenges and opportunities of everyday living. Training options include:
One-to-one mindfulness coaching and mentoring
Mindfulness group courses and workshops
Further training for people with an established mindfulness practice
We also offer online training for organisations.
Mindfulness Sussex is led by highly experienced mindfulness and meditation teacher, supervisor and author Ed Halliwell. According to Psychologies magazine, Ed is "one of the UK's most popular mindfulness teachers", while the Guardian calls him "one of the UK's leading mindfulness instructors and writers."
Message or call us to discuss one-to-one mindfulness training with Ed Halliwell
Book a free one-hour group introduction to mindfulness session via Zoom
One-to-One Mindfulness Coaching/Mentoring
Ed offers individual mindfulness taster sessions, courses and coaching. in person in Cuckfield, West Sussex and globally online via Zoom. For beginners, this may take the form of a gold-standard 8-week mindfulness course taught one-to-one. Those with more experience may benefit from mindfulness mentoring, which offers a space for deepening mindfulness and meditation practice, reflection and inquiry to help people stay engaged with the approach for a full and flourishing life. One-to-one sessions offer many advantages, including time and content flexibility, ensuring the training is tailored precisely to your needs.
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Group Mindfulness Courses
An 8-week mindfulness course is the gold standard group mindfulness training, backed by 40+years of research evidence.The course teaches simple meditation practices that can help us be more present to our experience and manage thoughts, emotions and body sensations, as well as our life choices, more skilfully. We run eight-week group courses on Friday mornings via Zoom, starting in January, May and September each year. We also offer free one-hour group introduction to mindfulness sessions via Zoom - book the next session on Thursday 1st October 2026, 1230pm UK time.
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What is Mindfulness and how can it help?
Mindfulness is a way of noticing, staying present and responding skilfully to what’s happening in our lives. It teaches us how to unhook from unhelpful, automatic thoughts, feeling and behaviour patterns, so we can make flexible choices that align with our needs and values. By practising a range of simple meditation practices and approaches to living, we learn how to savour life's delights and manage difficulties with skill and kindness. An extensive body of clinical research has consistently shown that mindfulness is helpful for working with a wide range of conditions, as well as for optimising well-being, and it is now taught widely in healthcare, education, workplaces and other settings.
Who teaches our mindfulness programmes?
All of our sessions are led by Ed Halliwell. Ed is a highly experienced mindfulness teacher, having led Mindfulness Sussex for over 15 years and taught the gold-standard eight-week group mindfulness course more than 200 times, as well as to hundreds of individuals. He also works with more experienced meditators to help them sustain and deepen their mindfulness practice after an initial training. Ed is the author of three books: Mindfulness: How To Live Well By Paying Attention, Into The Heart of Mindfulness and (as co-author) The Mindful Manifesto, and has taught mindfulness in more than 50 organisations, ranging from The Cabinet Office to NHS England to Tate, Unicef and Citibank. Ed also supervises other mindfulness teachers and is a member of The Mindfulness Network supervision team. Find out more about Ed
Watch Ed speak at a special Action For Happiness event on the subject of 'Mindfulness - Beyond The Hype' - video below...
Watch/listen to:
- A selection of short talks and practices on Ed's You Tube channel.
- Ed answering the question 'What Is Mindfulness?' for an interview with InPractise
- Ed talking about one-to-one mindfulness mentoring and coaching at the Mindfulness Voyage podcast
- Anxiety, Depression and Learning To Let Go - Meditation Inspiration Podcast
- The Quality of Paying Attention - The Art of Quality podcast
- A wide range of free guided mindfulness practices, led by Ed Halliwell
- Mindfulness Mentoring: A 1-2-1 approach for deepening and sustaining a mindfulness practice - Video of a talk Ed gave to the Mindfulness Network about one-to-one mindfulness
Read:
- Ed's blog posts for mindful.org
- Meet Ed Halliwell, lads' mag editor turned mindfulness expert (The Telegraph interview)
- Ed Halliwell on how his journey to enlightenment began with a cup of tea (Sussex Life magazine interview)
- Stepping away from the persona (Sussex Style magazine interview)
- Testimonials from people who've participated in our courses.
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