About the MBSR Course 

Reduce stress and anxiety in your daily life. On an online 8 week MBSR course, you'll learn practical tools and techniques to help you meet life's challenges with greater ease.

The Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course is the most recognised and established mindfulness course, taught throughout the world.

Developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in the late 70s by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn, MBSR combines meditation, body awareness, mindful movement and the exploration of thoughts, feelings and emotions to help people cope better with stress, depression and anxiety. 

Via guided meditations, group discussions and home practice, you will learn the essential principles of mindfulness and a range of practical tools to help you access its wide ranging benefits. 

Course Format:

The online course consists of eight 2.5 hour sessions and an online half-day retreat. Approximately 40 minutes of home practice per day in between sessions is recommended during the course.

Upcoming Courses

Dates: Spring 2025

Day: TBC

Location: London

Time: 6.30pm - 9.00pm

Frequency: 8 weekly sessions and an online half day retreat between weeks 6 and 7.

Cost: TBC

Course Overview:

  • Session 1: Exploring Mindfulness
    How can we build mindfulness into our daily life. 

  • Session 2: Perception 
    How we perceive the world and ourselves, influences our experiences.

  • Session 3: Being ‘at home’ in the body 
    The power of being in the present. Exploring pleasant experiences. 

  • Session 4: What is stress ? 
    Learning our patterns of stress reactivity. Exploring unpleasant experiences.  

  • Session 5: Working with stress
    Mindful responding versus reacting. Awareness of our conditioned automatic patterns. 

  • Session 6: Mindful Communications 
    Stressful communications and our interpersonal habit patterns.

  • Session 7: Mindfulness and Compassion 
    Skilful choices: care for ourselves, others and the world around us. 

  • Online Retreat Day: Guided half-day of mindfulness practices in a container of silence. 

  • Session 8: Reflections and looking forward

    Developing a practice of your own.

“The mind is like water. When it is turbulent it’s difficult to see. When it’s calm, everything becomes clear.”

Prasad Mahes