Mindfulness courses
PLE HEALTH is partnered with A Mindful Practice which was developed and created by Alison Sedgwick-Taylor to provide mindfulness courses to a range people.
The Mindfulness for Life 8-week course (sometimes also called MBCT-L) blends the ancient wisdom of mindfulness with cognitive-behavioural techniques in ways to help you integrate mindfulness into your daily life. It’s an in-depth, skills-based course created to help you cultivate lasting, sustainable and positive change. It offers approaches to support you with challenges, including recurring patterns of thought and behaviour that can create suffering, and also to help you savour life and flourish.
In this course, you’ll learn:
- To recognise the tendency to be on automatic pilot and how stepping out of it, by bringing mindfulness into our daily lives, can help us to live our lives more fully.
- To notice how often we are lost in our thoughts and feelings and practices which help to recognise this and help us to ‘gather the scattered mind’ and return to the here and now.
- How mindfulness can help us to recognise when we’re caught up in unhelpful patterns of thinking, feeling and acting, understand them and bring kindness to them.
- Skills for keeping our balance through life’s ups and down and for responding skilfully when difficulties arise, engaging with what is most important to us and opening up to joy, contentment and gratitude.
About Alison
Alison Sedgwick-Taylor is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, CBT Therapist, Trainer and Supervisor and Mindfulness Teacher and Supervisor. Trained at Guys Hospital and then all further cognitive therapy and mindfulness training with the University of Oxford. She is passionate about helping others develop a different relationship with their thoughts and unstick unhelpful behavioural patterns so they can flourish.
Alison worked in the NHS for over 25 years and clinically led the Gloucestershire IAPT programme. Alison specialises in offering mindfulness training to various groups (staff teams, public and clinical groups) and founded A Mindful Practice, training GPs and primary care staff. The GP programme, funded by NHS England and researched by Uni of Bath (Prof Paul Chadwick) was a Finalist for the 2024 Innovation Award with the Mindfulness Initiative.(https://www.innovationsinmindfulness.org/blog/meet-the-finalists).
Have a look at a couple of short films about this work made with GPs:
