We offer high-quality mindfulness training for beginners and experienced practitioners in Sussex and beyond (online and in-person). Our comprehensive programme includes:
One-to-one mindfulness coaching and mentoring
Group eight-week mindfulness courses
Group meditation practice sessions
We also deliver mindfulness 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."
One-to-One Mindfulness Coaching/Mentoring
Ed offers individual mindfulness coaching in Cuckfield, West Sussex and online via Zoom. For beginners, this may take the form of a gold-standard 8-week mindfulness course taught one-to-one, or a bespoke programme designed to suit personal circumstances. 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 mindfulness 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.
Find out more and book a 1-2-1 taster session
Eight-week Group Mindfulness Courses
An 8-week mindfulness course is the gold standard group mindfulness training, backed by 40+years of research evidence. This foundational course teaches meditation practices and daily mindfulness exercises that cultivate presence and help us manage thoughts, emotions and body sensations more skilfully and compassionately, leading to greater flexibility that enables flourishing in life. We run eight-week group courses on Friday mornings via Zoom, starting in January, May and September each year.
FInd out more about Group Mindfulness Courses
Group meditation practice sessions
We offer seven hours a month of live guided meditation sessions, with our mindfulness membership programme giving unlimited access to all sessions. These practice sessions support people to develop and sustain their mindfulness and connect with like-minded others. Alternativelt, all practice groups and one-to-one mentoring can be booked and attended on a session-by-session basis. There is also a combined one-to-one and groups membership option, enabling people to benefit from one-to-one coaching with all group meditation sessions included at no extra charge.
Find out more about our membership programme
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 since 2010 and taught the gold-standard eight-week group mindfulness course more than 200 times and to thousands of people. 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 also 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.
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 - Hear Ed talk about his own path to mindfulness on the Meditation Inspiration Podcast
- The Quality of Paying Attention - Ed discusses what makes mindfulness a quality training, on 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. You can also read an edited transcript of this talk, as well as Ed's blog for the Mindfulness Network based on the talk.
Read:
- Ed's dozens of blog posts for mindful.org, on many different aspects of mindfulness training
- 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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