Welcome

Welcome, to the Compassionate Mindful Resilience course.
This course is broken into a series of modules and lessons. You may scroll down the lessons on each module, or use the links in the menus on the left to jump to any point within each module.

Welcome to the Compassionate Mindful Resilience Programme

Over the next 8 modules I will introduce you to a range of  mindfulness and self-compassion meditations, techniques and coping strategies to help you build your resilience, enabling you to feel more content, in control and at ease.

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What you need to get the most out of the programme:

  • Commitment
  • Keep an open mind, and look out for your own expectations
  • Mindfulness and Compassion is an education not a treatment, you get out of it what you put in
  • Keeping a journal helps you identify what is changing in your life as you progress
  • Please wear comfortable clothing

Journaling

You may already have started a journal as part of your mindfulness practice. During this online study you will be asked from time to time to add more reflections to your journal, so please keep it to hand.

If you haven’t already started journaling, find yourself a notebook for this process.

Programme aims

This course is designed with 4 aims in mind.

  • Learn Mindfulness and Compassion to support emotional well-being
  • Understand more about stress and how it affects the mind and body
  • Recognise compassion fatigue and how to overcome it
  • Develop resources creatively to embrace Mindfulness and Compassion within your lives

We’ll do this by working through the following 8 modules together.

This course is delivered in 8 modules:

Module 1: Exploring Mindfulness
Module 2: Exploring Compassion
Module 3: Introducing Emotional Intelligence
Module 4: Cultivating Emotional Intelligence
Module 5: Developing Resilience
Module 6: Enhancing Resilience
Module 7: Feeling Resourced
Module 8: Feeling Connected

Ask yourself 3 questions:

I invite you now to take a moment and reflect on why you are doing this course, by answering the following questions.  Use your journal to make a note of your answers

  1. Why am I here?
  2. What would I like to learn from coming on this course? (include any expectations you may have)
  3. Where would I like to get to by the end of the course?

Introductory concepts

This course helps to identify what happens in our body, emotions and thoughts when we pay attention, whether doing a formal meditation practice or being mindful as we walk, talk, wash up, shower and so on.

mindfulness means

This process of investigation is known as the inquiry process, where we become curious about our moment to moment experiences. This then gives us the opportunity to explore whether what we are doing is helpful and supportive, or whether it would be beneficial to make a choice to change our patterns of thought and behaviour.

After each practice spend a little time, perhaps a minute or two, in reflection, noticing what the experience was like, asking yourself questions such as these:

You may want to make a note of these questions in your journal for ease of reference

  • What did you notice inside your body?
  • Did you notice where in your body you felt emotions?
  • Were you aware of what was happening in your mind?
  • How did you react when you noticed what your mind was doing?
  • Did bringing awareness to your thoughts change your experience?
  • Is there a familiar pattern emerging here?
  • Can you identify your experience with other areas of your life, your relationships for example?
  • How do you think it would feel to bring compassion in here?
  • How could you transfer what you have learnt through this practice to benefit your life?

Completing scales

The CMR course has been researched to  to prove its efficacy in improving participant’s levels of mindfulness, compassion and resilience.  The research focused primarily on the benefits the course has for those who work in the health and social sectors, however was open to all to complete.

The CMR is now Internationally recognised by EAMBA European Associations for Mindfulness and The British Association of Mindfulness Approaches (BAMBA).

If you would like to see the outcomes of this research, please contact info@mindfulnessuk.com for details.

Thank you!