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Mindfulness for Freedom
Date: 09/02/2027 - 30/03/2027
Location: Online
Mindfulness for Freedom (based on the Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention or MBRP model) is an eight-week mindfulness-based programme that explores working mindfully with difficult to change habits, urges and addictive patterns of behaviour that can leave us feeling stuck, disempowered or frustrated.
Finding true freedom invites us to replace unconscious or unhealthy drives with a clear awareness and conscious intentions.
This programme combines mindfulness practices with cognitive and behavioural approaches. Participants will learn to recognise habitual and automatic patterns, become more aware of the triggers and urges that can influence unwanted behaviour, and develop greater capacity to pause and respond more consciously rather than automatically.
Throughout the course, participants explore how thoughts, emotions and physical sensations can influence behaviour, and how mindfulness may help us relate differently to these experiences. Without any need for detailed self-disclosure, this programme considers what can draw us back towards familiar or unwanted patterns, particularly during times of difficulty or stress, and how greater awareness can create more opportunity for choice in how we respond.
MBRP was originally developed at the University of Washington for people experiencing addictive behaviours, and this remains an important part of its origins and compelling evidence base. The principles explored within the programme are relevant to a wider range of habits and behaviours that can feel automatic, persistent or difficult to change.
Participants meet weekly over eight weeks and are encouraged to develop a regular mindfulness practice between sessions.