Mindfulness for Stress Workshop We can't always choose what happens to us in life but we can choose how to respond. With the right techniques, you can feel lighter as you navigate difficult terrain. This eight-week workshop is taught by an accredited Mindfulness Teacher with experience working with people living with aplastic anaemia and/or similar bone marrow failure conditions, and their families. In a supportive and friendly group setting, you will learn how to boost your happiness and wellbeing, find new sources of resilience, joy, and calm in your life, and to cope with stress, anxiety, fear, and depression. If you think that you have a chance of increasing your quality of life, we warmly invite you to try this workshop. This workshop is offered free of charge, thanks to funding from The Garfield Weston Foundation and The National Lottery Community Fund. What is mindfulness? We can’t always choose what happens to us in life, but we can pause to choose how we wish to respond. It sounds so simple… just press the pause button then calmly decide how to respond in a measured way to the problem, what to do, what to say, how to say it. We all know pausing isn’t simple. Thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations in our bodies are very powerful. So quickly we can find ourselves swept away in a torrent of fears, worries, uncertainty, despair, anger, irritation, guilt, frustration…. Often prompting us to act in ways that just add to the problem. There are creative and imaginative ways of settling the busyness of our minds to find the clear space to choose how we want to respond to whatever life brings us, in our everyday or when going through particularly stressful times, and one way is through Mindfulness. Mindfulness helps us find an extra energizing dimension to our lives, even when we feel overwhelmed, it helps us create clarifying and compassionate pauses for our minds to settle so moment by moment we can choose to be the person that matters to us. Has helped me to look at things in a different way, to sleep better and to stress less. I feel more in control of what my illness throws at me. During this workshop you will: Learn how to find the clear space in your mind to choose how you want to respond to whatever life brings Learn tools to help you be the person that matters to you even during challenging times Find ways to press the pause button in your mind and quieten the busyness of everyday life Meet Clarise, your workshop tutor Clarise is a breathwork guide, mindfulness teacher, and coach who invites people into deeper connection with themselves through accessible practices. Her sessions blend visualisation, breathwork, and gentle reflection prompts to create space for transformation and inner clarity.Clarise's work is rooted in joy, kindness, and embodied presence. Whether guiding you back to your breath or leading you through imaginative inner journeys, she helps you to listen to the wisdom within and come home to yourself. Having worked in the mental health sector for 16+ years, Clarise takes a trauma-informed approach, recognising all emotions as valid. Practical details To join the workshop, you will need access to the internet to join the 8 Zoom sessions (dates below). Ideally you will also need WhatsApp, to join the discussion group and keep in contact with your tutor. We will add you to the WhatsApp group using the number you provide when you register. If you don't have WhatsApp or need technical support, please feel free to give our support line a ring on 0300 102 3202. Session dates Please add these dates to your diary! You will receive an email the day before each session as a reminder, with the Zoom link. Saturday 5th September, 10am-11.30am Saturday 12th September, 10am-11.30am Saturday 19th September, 10am-11.30am Saturday 26th September, 10am-11.30am Saturday 3rd October, 10am-11.30am Saturday 10th October, 10am-11.30am Saturday 17th October, 10am-11.30am Saturday 24th October, 10am-11.30am To ensure you obtain maximum benefit from the workshop, it is important that you attend the very first session, and thereafter as many sessions as you possibly can. If you or your loved one is ill right now, we understand that you might be worried about committing to specific dates. Please don't worry about signing up and having to miss a session or two because of fatigue, appointments, treatment etc! We get it. Register for the workshop below. We will add you into a WhatsApp group, so you can communicate with the rest of the group, and send you a reminder email the day before each of your sessions which will include the link to join the session on Zoom. Please be sure to check your spam folder if you do not receive a reminder the day before each session. We will also pop the link in the WhatsApp Chat on the day of the session too. The Little Mindfulness Workbook In order to benefit from the workshop, we would like you to purchase the Little Mindfulness Workbook by Garry Hennessy. This book is available from most bookstores and online, we've provided a link to bookshop.com below, where you can also purchase it as an eBook for under £3. Order one now This project is supported by The Garfield Weston Foundation and The National Lottery Community Fund – thanks to players of The National Lottery. Book a place Ticket Quantity Price Mindfulness for Stress Workshop - Mar-Apr 26 We don't have this quantity of tickets. Your quantity has been set to the maximum available Decrease Enter quantity Increase £0.00 Book Manage Cookie Preferences