January 2025 Calendar – Compassion Based Living
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Welcome to the Mindfulness Association
Compassion Based Mindfulness
A Four Level Pathway
We are a welcoming and compassionate organisation offering information about mindfulness and a wide range of mindfulness training courses that support people in their practice of mindfulness, compassion and insight.
We believe that Mindfulness is a way of life and not a brief intervention for relieving symptoms. Our unique compassion-based mindfulness courses are for life. Our Mindfulness courses cater for beginners, experienced practitioners, those that want to train to teach Mindfulness and experienced teachers.
We have a members community, a mindfulness for life programme with some great retreats and a continuing professional development program for all the teachers out there.
See our latest courses below to find the course for you. Our team have decades of experience. The Mindfulness Association is a member of the British Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches (BAMBA), and our teacher training meets the requirements of the BAMBA good practice guidelines.
Featured Courses
Feb 28, 2025 - Mar 02, 2025
Mindfulness & Movement in Nature Introduction Weekend
Samye Ling
DG13 0QL
All Courses and Retreats
Below is a selection of our latest courses for beginners, experienced practitioners, those that want to teach Mindfulness and exclusive members retreats
28 February 2025 - 02 March 2025
Mindfulness & Movement in Nature Introduction Weekend
Samye Ling, DG13 0QL
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Daily FREE Mindfulness Meditation
Join our free daily practice at 10:30am & 7pm Monday to Friday.
Mindfulness is proven to be beneficial for mental health and wellbeing in the right circumstances, but please note,
these mindfulness meditation practice sessions are not a treatment for mental health problems or addiction
PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION ABOUT THE DAILY MEDITATION
To join these sessions you will need to have a Zoom account.
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A Word from Our Directors
It has been our extraordinary privilege to work as part of a wonderful team in the development of the Mindfulness Association since the organisation was founded in May 2010. We were all fortunate to have Rob Nairn as a teacher and friend and then work with him to set up the Mindfulness Association. All our lives have changed, beyond recognition, for the better, due to the practice of mindfulness, compassion and insight meditation and it is our delight to share this practice with those that we teach. We hope that the resources on this website, our membership, online and face to face offerings benefit you in a similar way.
Choden
Co-Founder, Director and Tutor
Heather
Co-Founder, Director and Tutor
Norton
Co-Founder and Director
Founder
Rob Nairn
Rob Nairn is the founder of the Mindfulness Association and developed a systematic and effective Mindfulness training on which our Mindfulness courses are based. He has guided us and many of his students meeting obstacles we face with curiosity and self kindness.
Rob’s unique blend of training and experience in law and psychology as well as having received teachings by distinguished Buddhist meditation teachers enables him to explain Mindfulness concepts from a Western psychological and secular perspective. His students have benefited from his experience and friendly sense of humour
Watch and listen to some of his teachings by clicking the button below.
The Everyone Project. Please Help Us to Help Others.
The MA tutor team lead the daily sits on a voluntary basis. If you find the sits beneficial and if you are able to, the tutor team would be delighted if you could make a donation to the Everyone Project. In this way we can all continue to support each other through the benefits of mindfulness.
Just £5 will pay for one session of the Mindfulness Based Living Course to be delivered to one person.
Part of this work has been made possible by an award from People’s Postcode Trust, a grant-giving charity funded entirely by players of People’s Postcode Lottery.
See www.everyoneproject.org for more information about our work.
Thank you!
Friends of the Mindfulness Association
