Mindful Somatic Body Mind Behaviour Training ONLINE

Starts Tuesday 21 April | 7-9pm for 7 weeks (No Session on 5 May)

Plus a catch up session in the Autumn - date tbc

PLEASE NOTE :

• first 5 weeks of the course will have both In Person and Online (Zoom) option
• the last 2 weeks will be Online only (Zoom) for all participants

Leader: Pippa O'Connor
Costs: £280 [£225 if on low income; £155 if living off benefits]

For our concessions policy please click here. If you are eligible for a concession, enter “concession-225” (low income) or “concession-155” (if living on benefits) at the Checkout page in the ‘Package, gift or coupon code’ box .
Prices include materials and the additional practice afternoon.

This interactive course will empower you to tap into your body's natural healing intelligence and effectively manage trauma, anxiety, depression, and past conditioning. By gently releasing these experiences and aligning with your natural state, you will be able to achieve a sense of calm and inner peace, managing your symptoms effectively. With the aid of modern psychology, body-based release exercises and neuroscience, as well as knowledge of mindful compassion, polyvagal theory, and gut ecology, you will learn to be present, stable, and at ease with yourself and others. Ultimately, this course will lead you toward greater self-awareness and resource you for emotional resilience.

We are not just the mind, we are a body-felt sense intelligence so we have to understand our feeling body experience, and not just our thinking mind.

• Reconnect with your body’s natural healing intelligence and capacity for regulation
• Learn practical tools to work with stress, fear, anxiety, depression, and past conditioning
• Understand how the nervous system responds to stress through neuroscience, polyvagal theory, and psychology
• Develop skills to manage mental health symptoms and become a “good-enough” manager of your inner world
• Cultivate mindful compassion, presence, and emotional stability
• Understand that lasting change begins with your relationship to yourself before it can transform your outer experience
• Improve and stabilise inner and outer relationships
• Learn simple body movements and practices to help self-regulate the nervous system
• Explore the gut–brain connection and its role in wellbeing
• Work with thoughts, emotions, and body sensations with kindness and awareness
• Build greater self-awareness, resilience, and inner calm

N.B. We will only share information on our direct experience of the skills/tools knowledge and practices from the mindful compassion somatic practices and application to your daily life.

Tutor: Pippa O'Connor (BSc; MSc; PGCE & Dip) Senior lecturer in Mindfulness Based Clinical Applications at the Priory, North London Hospital, Southgate. She is a Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness Teacher / Psychotherapist, at The Tavistock & Portman Hospital, London Clinic Hospital, Harley Street & Priory Hospital, London. Specialising - (CBT) Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Addiction and Trauma Focused Therapy / EMDR. Relationship Diploma.