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General Resources

 

Books

• Mark Williams & Danny Penman. Mindfulness: A practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world (includes CD with guided meditations).

• John Teasdale, Mark Williams & Zindel Segal. The Mindful Way Workbook: An 8-week program to free yourself from depression and emotional distress. Guilford, New York (includes an MP3 / CD and downloads of guided meditations).

• Jon Kabat-Zinn. Full Catastrophe Living. Using the wisdom of your body and mind to face stress, pain and illness [the original book detailing the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction – MBSR - course].

• Jon Kabat-Zinn. Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the present moment and your life.


• Kate Carne. Seven Secrets of Mindfulness: how to keep your everyday practice alive.

 

Depression

• Mark Williams, Zindel Segal, John Teasdale & Jon Kabat-Zinn. The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness (includes CD with guided meditations; the fuller MBCT course with emphasis on depression but helpful for various kinds of distress).

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Parenting, Childbirth and for Children

• Jon & Myla Kabat-Zinn. Everyday Blessings. The inner work of mindful parenting.

• Shauna Shapiro & Chris Whyte. Mindful Discipline: A loving approach to setting limits and raising an emotionally intelligent child.

• Nancy Bardacke. Mindful Birthing: Training the mind, body & heart for childbirth and beyond.

• Sian Warriner. How to have a Mindful Pregnancy and Birth.

• Susan Kaiser Greenland. The Mindful Child.

• Mark Pallis & Christiane Kerr. Crab and Whale: a new way to introduce mindfulness to kids. 

• Thich Nat Hanh. Planting Seeds - Practicing Mindfulness with Children.

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Digital Resources 

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Websites Courses:

• New Forest Mindfulness: For details of our 8-week mindfulness courses in the New Forest area, retreat days, sitting group and other events.

• https://bamba.org.uk BAMBA -the British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (includes UK listing of approved mindfulness teachers and good practice guidelines for those wishing to teach mindfulness based courses)

• www.mindful.org (Has a monthly magazine you can subscribe to mindfulness articles and resources)

 

Audio of Mindfulness Practices

• https://www.oxfordmindfulness.org/learn-mindfulness/resources/

  Oxford Mindfulness Centre (OMC) free audio meditations including deepening –after the 8 week course practices. 

•  www.guilford.com/MBCT_audio (includes some audios by different MBCT teachers). 

• www.stressreductiontapes.com (Jon Kabat-Zinn’s guided meditations)

• https://insighttimer.com (If you want to choose your own length of time for a meditation, and the frequency of chimes or bells, e.g. 25 mins with bells every 5 mins).

• https://www.smilingmind.com.au a not for profit website and free app with mindfulness meditations / programmes for children and adults

•  https://www.shambhala.com/sittingstilllikeafrog/ free mindfulness meditations for children.

• https://www.headspace.com/ Short and longer mindfulness practices, free for NHS staff. 

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Other Websites

1. https://goamra.org/publications/mindfulness-research-monthly a web-based research publication from the American Mindfulness Research Association

2. http://www.mbct.co.uk Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) homepage

3. http://www.mindfulbirthing.org/ Nancy Bardacke’s website Programmes for Mindful Family Living

4. http://www.umassmed.edu/cfm/ Center for Mindfulness (CFM), University of

   Massachusetts Medical School

5. www.bemindful.co.uk Mental Health Foundation, Online Mindfulness Programme

6. www.gaiahouse.co.uk Gaia House, Retreat Centre, West Ogwell, Nr Newton Abbot, Devon

7.  https://www.sharphamtrust.org Retreat Centre, Ashprington, Nr Totnes, Devon

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Live Online Mindfulness Practice Sessions:

• Friday Sitting Group - Fridays 6-7.30pm with Maret Dymond-Bassett

• http://www.wisdom2conference.com/live - Week Days Daily 7-8pm BST with Jon Kabat Zinn

• https://www.keepcalmer.co.uk - Week Days Daily 6.30-7.30pm BST with UK BAMBA Listed Mindfulness Teachers

• https://www.oxfordmindfulness.org/learn-mindfulness/online-sessions-podcasts/ Wednesdays 7-8pm with Oxford Mindfulness Centre Teachers