Membership

Lorna Walker
Befriending the Inner Critic

Lorna is a lead trainer with Youth Mindfulness and founder of Compassionate System. In this workshop, Lorna explore's how we can become aware of, and bring compassion to, the harsh and judgmental inner voice that tells us we're not good enough. Rather than something to be eradicated, this inner voice is a reflection of our natural and innate wish to be well and happy. With awareness and compassion we can gain insight into its roots and bring about its transformation.

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Annick Nevejan
Visualising Compassion

Annick Nevejan has extensive experience over the past 25 years in facilitating personal and collective transformation. Since 1990 she has studied and practised intensively in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, including completion of a 3-month solo silent retreat. She is a systems-centred facilitator and coach and presviously taught on the University of Aberdeen's MSc in Studies in Mindfulness. In this workshop, Annick will share on cultivating compassion and lead a guided compassion visualization.

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Jamie Bristow
Developing Agency in Urgent Times

Jamie Bristow is the director of the Mindful Initiative - an advocacy and policy think tank that has led the project of bringing mindfulness to MPs at the UK Parliament. Recently Jamie co-authored the paper Mindfulness: Developing Agency in Urgent Times. In this event, Jamie will speak on mindfulness as a foundational capacity, necessary to respond to the challenges we face. You can find Jamie's recent paper here: https://www.themindfulnessinitiative.org/agency-in-urgent-times

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Michael Bready
Impermanence, Creativity and Spontaneity

Michael Bready is the Founder and Director of Youth Mindfulness as well as the author and co-author of the Youth Mindfulness Kids Programme and SOMA Programme respectively. In this workshop, Michael will explore how meditations on the everchangingness of experience can enable us free ourselves from fixed mental habits and live with a more dynamic and fluid engagement with life, allowing for more spontaneity, freedom and meaningfulness.

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Katherine Weare
Implementing Mindfulness in Schools

Katherine Weare is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Southampton and the co-author (along with Thich Nhat Hanh) of Happy Teachers Change the World. She recently published a comprehensive and highly-acclaimed evidence-based guide to Implementing Mindfulness in Schools. In this event, Katherine will share her findings, as well as discuss the challenges and promises for mindfulness with young people. You can find the paper here: https://www.themindfulnessinitiative.org/implementing-mindfulness-in-schools-an-evidence-based-guide

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Andres Gonzalez
The Story of The Holistic Life Foundation

Along with Ali and Atman Smith, Andres is one of the founders of the Holistic Life Foundation, a Baltimore-based non-profit bringing mindfulness based wellbeing programmes to children, teenagers and people of all ages. The Holistic Life Foundation were one of the first organisations to start teaching mindfulness to children and young people and were one of the first to bring these transformative practices to hard hit communities. During this event Andres shares his experience and insights in how mindfulness can change lives and inspire hope.

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Brother Phap Linh
Towards a more beautiful world

Brother Phap Linh is a Dharma Teacher in the Plum Village Tradition, ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh as a Zen monk in 2008. He is a mathematician and composer and has always had a passion for engaged mindfulness: how mindfulness can be part of the solution to the ecological, educational and social crises we face. In this session, he guides us in a meditation, shares about his experience of being a monk, and reflects on the role of mindfulness in bringing about a more beautiful future.

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Lorna Walker
Mindfulness and Poetry

In this workshop, Lorna explores the powerful combination of bringing together mindfulness and poetry. The workshop involves a practice called "insight gathering" which is a practice of listening to how the body, heart and mind responds to the words and images shared in poetry as well as the practice of spacious awareness to work with what arises to craft words to express experience.

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Michael Bready
4 emotional systems for flourishing

In this workshop Michael offers a scientifically grounded exploration of an emotions-based framework for flourishing. These four systems are represented in the archetypal elements of Earth, Water, Fire, and Air. Earth is our capacity for embodied awareness. Water is our capacity for love and compassion. Fire is our capacity for aggression and determination. And Air is our capacity for play, creativity and humour. When brought into balance and fullness we flourish into the our potential.

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Tiu De Haan
Ritual Design

Tiu is a world renowned expert on rituals and has been featured in The Guardian, The Times and Radio 4, and her past clients include the United Nations and Google. In this workshop, Tiu leads us through a process she developed called Ritual Design, in which you design and create your own ritual. In this process, you'll learn to use ritual to bring greater magic and significance to the moments of your life.

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Youth Mindfulness Community

Connect with others, deepen your practice, develop your skills and knowledge.

Live Masterclasses Every Month

Live Weekly Meditations

Regular day-long online retreats

Online community

Access to recordings of previous events

Join our Community Retreat
8th January 2023

Youth Mindfulness Teacher's Directory

Our Membership is £10 per month

Joining our community gives you access to regular inspiring workshops

Mark Ovland
More Than Mindfulness - An Introduction to Other Ways of Looking
8th February, 2023, 7-9pm

Orlaith O'Sullivan
Mindfulness and character strengths for all ages

2nd March, 2023, 7-9pm

Joining our community gives you access to all previous events

Lorna Walker
Befriending the Inner Critic

Annick Nevejan
Visualising Compassion

Jamie Bristow
Developing Agency in Urgent Times

Michael Bready
Impermanence, Creativity and Spontaneity

Katherine Weare
Implementing Mindfulness in Schools

Andres Gonzalez
The Story of The Holistic Life Foundation

Brother Phap Linh
Towards a more beautiful world

Lorna Walker
Mindfulness and Poetry

Michael Bready
4 emotional systems for flourishing

Tiu De Haan
Ritual Design

Live Masterclasses Every Month

Live Weekly Meditations

Regular day-long online retreats

Online community

Access to recordings of previous events

Mark Ovland More Than Mindfulness - An Introduction to Other Ways of Looking 8th February, 2023, 7-9pm

Orlaith O'Sullivan Mindfulness and character strengths for all ages 2nd March, 2023, 7-9pm

Lorna Walker Befriending the Inner Critic

Annick Nevejan Visualising Compassion

Jamie Bristow Developing Agency in Urgent Times

Michael Bready Impermanence, Creativity and Spontaneity

Katherine Weare Implementing Mindfulness in Schools

Andres Gonzalez The Story of The Holistic Life Foundation

Brother Phap Linh Towards a more beautiful world

Lorna Walker Mindfulness and Poetry

Michael Bready 4 emotional systems for flourishing

Tiu De Haan Ritual Design

Mark Ovland
More Than Mindfulness - An Introduction to Other Ways of Looking
8th February, 2023, 7-9pm

Orlaith O'Sullivan
Mindfulness and character strengths for all ages

2nd March, 2023, 7-9pm

Lorna Walker
Befriending the Inner Critic

Annick Nevejan
Visualising Compassion

Jamie Bristow
Developing Agency in Urgent Times

Michael Bready
Impermanence, Creativity and Spontaneity

Katherine Weare
Implementing Mindfulness in Schools

Andres Gonzalez
The Story of The Holistic Life Foundation

Brother Phap Linh
Towards a more beautiful world

Lorna Walker
Mindfulness and Poetry

Michael Bready
4 emotional systems for flourishing

Tiu De Haan
Ritual Design