Living Mindfully Meditation Center

What is mindfulness…?

A way of taking charge of your life, a way of doing something for yourself that no one else can do for you – consciously and systematically working with your own stress, pain, illness, and the challenges and demands of everyday life.

Mindfulness…

If we learn through mindfulness to relate to positive, negative, or neutral experiences with less reactivity, we may then lessen the impact of those difficulties, especially those that are tinted with automated, judgemental, and critical thinking. Throughout the wealth of research, books, and articles relating to mindfulness the words ‘awareness’ and ‘attention’ are scattered like leaves on a blustery autumn day. Explanations of what mindfulness is are in abundance, but for the sake of argument the following has been chosen for its clarity, and simplicity: The programmes delivered by Living Mindfully include The Living Mindfully programme (5 weeks), Mindfulness-based stress reduction (8 weeks), Living Mindfully in Education (LME), and T.I.M.E (Mindfulness-based coaching). As an NHS service provider Living Mindfully delivers a referral-only mindfulness service across County Durham in North East England.

As a participating member of the UK Network of Mindfulness teacher trainer organizations Living Mindfully offers the Mindfulness Practitioner Training Programme for those wishing to teach mindfulness.

The company is committed to raising public awareness of the benefits of mindfulness-based approaches, delivering mindfulness and mindfulness-based coaching programmes to the public, private, and voluntary sector.

At Living Mindfully, we aim to work in a safe and responsible way, maintaining an active link with current research, and adhering to relevant guidance on the delivery of coaching and training. In the absence of a regulatory framework written specifically for mindfulness practitioners, we commit to the principles and guidance set out in the UK Network for Mindfulness-Based Teachers, Good practice guidelines for teaching mindfulness-based courses, and the Association for Coaching Code of Ethics and Good Practice.