Author: Sarah Francis (Sarah Francis)

We are busily working on our important research project; currently recruiting for the final group in the study. We will have recruited 120 participants. We are very grateful to all those who volunteered and we look forward to processing the data. We will be resuming the public programs in 2019, to continue to make the...

As we are rushing towards the middle of the year we are well underway with the research project. We have 99 participants in the study and we need to recruit a further group to complete. We are so grateful to participants who have persisted with the program and completed all the measures. We look forward to...

  As we start the New Year we are excited to be continuing with the Mindfulness-integrated CBT research project and hoping to have collected all the data by about October. We are so grateful to all those who already volunteered to be in the study – both those who have attended the 8 weeks of...

We are so excited that the first of the Mindfulness Research groups is almost finished the 8-week program and the first Day program has nearly enough participants to commence. The research is investigating the efficacy of MiCBT as a group program targeting people who are struggling with stress, anxiety and depression and other psychological issues....

This Saturday (29th July) we have an afternoon of mindfulness meditation – a wonderful opportunity to consolidate the practices learned in our MiCBT programs. It’s a lovely way to use a cold Saturday afternoon! We find that we leave after the afternoon peaceful and calm. The neuroscience is very helpful in allowing us to understand...

As we move into the second half of the year and the weather is definitely wintery, now is a wonderful time to refresh your self care – keeping up with all your exercises – physical and mental. It is so easy to become sluggish and slothful – mentally and physically! So if your meditation practice...

It is wonderful that we now have enough people who have volunteered for the mindfulness research trial to commence the first of the MiCBT groups we will be running. This is so exciting and I am looking forward to working with these groups over the next twelve months. We need 120 volunteers in total so if...

  Afternoon of Mindfulness – we have held the first of our Saturday afternoon mindfulness sessions this year. While others were frantically doing their Saturday activities, a small group of us took some time out to “just be”.  Anyone who has learned MiCBT is invited and we do this at intervals throughout the year –...