Mindfulness, Compassion and Nervous System Regulation Course
Tuesday 26th September 2023- 7th November 202319.30-21.00 Online6 Tuesday eveningsThis is a unique course, blending psychology, mindfulness and self-compassion practices to support you with anxiety, stress and worry. The course is designed to provide an understanding of why we feel and think the way that we do and how we can draw on tools and strategies to improve and change this.
This course is run by our highly experienced lead psychologist, Dr Charlotte Whiteley, who has many years experience in NHS mental health settings and is also a practicing buddhist with a mindfulness teacher training qualification. She is highly skilled in offering training and teaching courses that provide her participants with exercises, visualisations and home-based tasks to improve their quality of life. Charlotte ensures that her courses and groups are safe spaces for her participants. There is no such thing as a ‘silly question’ and Charlotte creates a culture of imperfection and spaciousness to experiment with questions, ideas and possibilities of change and difference in her groups.
Dr Charlotte Whiteley has a refreshing take on anxiety, stress and worry. Rather than seeing it as something that should be ‘pushed away’ or ‘stopped’, she instead views these experiences as useful insights, providing us with important communications about how we are feeling. When we start to listen to our anxiety, worry and stress from a more compassionate and mindful perspective, it can instead be freeing rather than debilitating. Charlotte draws on evolutionary psychology to help understand and explore this further.
Dr Charlotte Whiteley also finds it of huge benefit to think about our relationship to life and death and how anxiety plays a part in this. Her buddhist practice provides Charlotte with a framework for how we live and die and she finds that talking about exploring our relationship to these topics and can free us up to live life in a richer way.
What you will take away:
A daily meditation practice (many different practices so you can choose which ones work best for you)
Movement meditation
Understanding feelings of overwhelm and how to work with these
Understanding the frenetic nature of the mind and how we can tame our wild thoughts with practice
Understanding how and why the brain can be so unkind to us - why we have such a strong inner critic
Self-compassion exercises (talking more kindly to yourself, having more self-understanding)
Compassion for others exercises (which can be extremely healing for anger responses)
Metaphors, analogies and imagery for understanding your thoughts, feelings and nervous system responses more fully so that you can begin to change the way you respond to stress, anxiety and worry
A new and fresh way of understanding the mind, thoughts and difficult feelings
Strategies to calm your nervous system - messages to communicate to your brain that you are calm, slower and stress-free
A support group from whom you can continue to practice with, if you wish to
A log book, including all the information covered on the course, diagrams and many links to further support your practices
Access to recordings of exercises and meditations practiced on the course
Continued ongoing access to support
Practicalities
Cost - The full cost of this course is £275 however, there are LOW COST and ‘PAY WHAT YOU CAN’ spaces. You can also set up a payment plan if needed.
BOOK NOW or email for more information/ payment plan/ low cost at enquiries@mindfulpsychologypractice.co.uk
Once you have booked, a health information form will be sent to you in addition to practice logs that you’ll need for the course. You will also then be sent the zoom link, which will remain the same for the full 6 weeks of the course.
Please see our Mindfulness Courses FAQ’s for further information on practicalities here.