Integrated Mindfulness & MRE June 2019 Update
We hope this newsletter finds you well.
Please find below information about Integrated Mindfulness and Mindful Resilience Enhancement (MRE).
We hope to see you at the one day conference exploring Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness on June 21st or at our Saturday Practice Day on July 6th.
There are also details of forthcoming workshops and our January 2020 retreat.
In addition, we are planning to develop an webinar-based ongoing mindfulness practice group - details below.
Warm wishes
Tim and Annette
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Mindfulness Practice Day in Eccles, Manchester: Saturday July 6th 2019
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For those familiar with our Saturday Practice Days, you may glad to know that the venue is free again after another organisation's long-term booking has ceased; so we anticipate holding these days on a regular basis once again.
The day costs £20 with shorter practices in the morning and longer ones in the afternoon. You are welcome to come for a full or half a day.
You are welcome to come whether you are new to mindfulness or a veteran...
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Please note these practice days are intended for professionals interested in mindfulness; which offers opportunities for networking across the range of professional of those attending (though you are welcome to bring friends or family with you - over 18 only though). They are not designed as days for the general public or as follow-up days for eight-week mindfulness courses delivered for service-users.
Please book via Eventbrite: www.imsats-may-2019.eventbrite.co.uk
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Free, One Day Conference Exploring Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: June 21st, 2019 at the University of Salford.
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Can Mindfulness be Too Much of a Good Thing?
This year's day conference is exploring whether mindfulness can be too much of a good thing (and the value of the middle way).
This is inspired by Willoughby Britton’s important and insightful article of this name (Britton, W. B. (2019). Can Mindfulness Be Too Much of a Good Thing? The Value of a Middle Way. Current opinion in psychology. 28: p.159-165)
Her article is available here if you have institutional access to online journals (please use this link if you can as it helps raise the profile of her article). If you do not have free access her article is available here. I really encourage you to read it as it brings together so many crucial considerations for teaching mindfulness safely to everyone.
Willoughby has very kindly offered to record a video for us to play at the conference in which she will explore some of the issues she raises in her article.
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2019 Conference Presenters
Willoughby Britton will offer a video discussion of her article Can Mindfulness Be Too Much of a Good Thing? The Value of a Middle Way.
Kelly Birtwell is reporting on her PhD research project investigating how to adapt mindfulness to individual need with a particular focus on starting with shorter practices.
Ginny Wall, one of Breathworks’ lead trainers, will be exploring the crucial role of pacing in mindfulness teaching. This has been a particular focus for Breathworks with insightful approaches around pacing integrated into the Breathworks pain and stress management courses.
Tim Duerden will detail an accessible theoretical framework that enables both mindfulness teachers and participants to tailor practices to meet individual need. He will also be reporting on the experience and privilege of working with a Jewish men’s mindfulness group.
Please book for the conference via Eventbrite here.
You can find resources from previous conferences here: www.mindingthegaps.uk.
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A New Cycle of Level 1 and 2 MRE Teacher-Training starting June 2019: Open to all mindfulness teachers
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There are still a few places left on our June 15th and 16th MRE Level 1 Workshop 1 at The Christie in Manchester: it's focus is a trauma sensitive approach to teaching mindfulness.
The remaining level 1 workshops are now available for booking in the autumn.
Please see www.integratedmindfulness.com for these events and the booking links.
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You can find details of MRE level 2 workshops here:
www.mre.re
The Teaching Longer Practices with Compassion is available for booking in November 2019. We will have dates for the remaining Level 2 workshops in due course.
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2 to 7 Day Secular Mindfulness Retreat, Snowdonia, Jan 2020
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The retreat begins Friday evening 17th January and continues to mid-day Monday 20th with the option to stay for additional days until Friday 24th.
This flexible retreat 2-7 day retreat is open to anyone who has attended Integrated Mindfulness/Mindful Resilience Enhancement mindfulness practice days or training workshops. It is also open to anyone who has undertaken training in other mindfulness-based and/or compassion-based teacher training or who has an established mindfulness practice with experience of longer periods of practice.
The retreat is led by Annette Dunn and Tim Duerden who are the lead trainers for Integrated Mindfulness and experienced mindfulness teacher-trainers and retreat facilitators.
The retreat is held in the wonderful Trigonos centre which has views of Snowdon, lovely grounds, walks by the lake and amazing food.
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The retreat can be attended to meet the Good Practice Guidelines for Mindfulness Teachers requirements for retreat attendance whether this is partially through attending for 2-3 days or fully by attending for 5-7 days.
We aim to have a common start time of Friday evening, although arriving early Saturday morning is an option. We find the retreat is well paced by staying on Sunday night until Monday mid-day (though some people leave Sunday evening).
From Monday lunchtime onwards, people are welcome to stay for additional days up to Friday lunchtime. These additional days have the same structure of practice times as the first 3 days, but the practice periods are almost all unguided. We therefore suggest that anyone who has not been on a mindfulness practice retreat before attends, at most, Friday evening to Monday lunchtime.
For booking please go to:
https://integrated-mindfulness-retreat-2020.eventbrite.co.uk
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Ongoing Mindfulness Class by Webinar
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Inspired by discussions with a number of colleagues, we are planning to enter the world of webinars and to trial developing an ongoing practice group.
This is to address the recurrent issue of the difficulty in sustaining ongoing practice groups after the end of a mindfulness course.
There can be the costs of a practice room and and the teacher's time and the travel time for teachers and participants, that can make it hard for ongoing groups to be self-sustaining.
We are interested to test out whether a group of mindfulness teachers can take turns hosting an ongoing mindfulness group.
We would ideally seek to offer ongoing practice sessions that were offered in a person-centred style: e.g. permissive of people finding their own way to practice.
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Our first thought is that, assuming there is enough interest, a group of us could agree to host the ongoing group sessions in a rota, spreading the workload. To test the idea and to develop initial interest we think offering some of the initial sessions for free would make sense. After this period, we would hope to be able to charge for the sessions, with a share of the income going to the teachers and a number of free logins available for each teacher to give to their own participants. If you are interested in exploring this idea, Tim is hosting an on-line meeting on Wednesday July 10th 2019. The link to the webinar is here: but you will need to email Tim @ tim@integratedmindfulness.com to receive the password for accessing the meeting.
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