Practical Mindfulness: Tools to Move Towards What Matters

Practical Mindfulness: Tools to Move Towards What Matters is a 5 week course.

Session dates: 6, 13, 20 May (No Session on 27 May), 3, 10 June

What if you could handle difficult thoughts and emotions without being pushed around by them?
What if you could stay grounded, present, and move toward what truly matters — even when life feels overwhelming?

This Practical Mindfulness: Tools to Move Towards What Matters course is based on the Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) model: a powerful, evidence-based approach that helps you build psychological flexibility — the ability to respond to life with awareness, openness, and purpose rather than reacting on autopilot.

This 5-week course offers an introduction to these practical and life-enhancing skills to help you relate differently to stress, self-doubt, anxiety, and emotional pain — so you can focus your energy on living a rich and meaningful life.

By the End of the 5 Weeks, You Can Expect To:

• Start to relate to difficult thoughts and emotions more skilfully
• Feel clearer about your values and direction
• Develop practical tools for everyday challenges
• Take purposeful initial steps toward the life you want to live

Life will always include challenges. ACT tools help you meet them with flexibility, courage, and intention.

Is This Course for You?

This course is for you if you want to:

• Deepen your self-awareness and better understand your patterns
• Respond to challenges with greater flexibility and resilience
• Reduce the struggle with difficult thoughts and emotions
• Clarify what truly matters to you
• Take meaningful steps in the direction of your values

Whether you're navigating stress, anxiety, low mood, life transitions, or simply seeking personal growth, ACT provides tools you can begin using immediately.

Why ACT?

Research shows that ACT can support people experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain, and stress. Beyond symptom relief, many participants report:

• Greater emotional resilience
• Improved self-understanding
• Increased clarity about values and purpose
• More confidence taking action, even when discomfort is present

ACT doesn’t aim to eliminate uncomfortable feelings — it helps you change your relationship with them, so they no longer run your life.

Course Facilitator: Dhinita Miia Chambers

Dhinita Miia Chambers  is a Trainer and Supervisor in MBSR (Bangor University), MBCT (Oxford University) , ACT City (University College London), MSC, CFT, & Radical Self Care programmes.

Dhinita has worked for and with Mind mental health charity for more than a decade, and currently works with a range of organisations as a trainer, coach and supervisor.

She has been previously been co-chair of the British Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches, and Chair of City and Hackney LGBTQ+ Special Interest Group. As an accomplished mental health practitioner, Dhinita has extensive experience of working with individuals and groups using Mindfulness approaches, as well as developing impactful, evidence-based training and interventions.