Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) combines strategies to help individuals better understand and manage their thoughts, emotions, and body sensations, to achieve relief from feelings of distress. Though originally developed to address recurrent depression, many mental health professionals have incorporated mindfulness within therapy sessions, and/or recommend an 8-week course as part of relapse prevention. Mindfulness activities have shown improvements in anxiety, depression, sleep and pain scores.

MBCT is recommended by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence – NICE (2004, 2009, 2022), for the treatment of mild to moderate depression and to reduce the risk of relapse. There is also research evidence to show mindfulness courses offer significant benefit to people who experience anxiety or insomnia, as well as offering benefits for those who have a long-term health condition (for example; chronic pain, diabetes, chronic fatigue).

Learning mindfulness can also be preventative in maintaining our health and wellbeing. Carers can also benefit from mindfulness as well as parents, to better manage the pressures of caring for others in a busy and demanding world.

This mindfulness course is two hours per week for eight weeks. It is for both complete beginners as well as for those who have had some experience of meditation or mindfulness.  Like any skill, mindfulness takes time to practice, and we recommend you set time aside each day for daily home practice to be able to make good use of what you learn each week.

We have courses delivered face to face as well as courses delivered online.

This therapy is delivered online as a weekly group treatment program. Your identity remains confidential and there is no interaction with other participants, although during the live session you can raise questions. Each session is recorded, and the link is then available for three days, allowing flexibility to fit the course around your busy schedule or to access the course from the comfort of your own home.

Each weekly session lasts for two hours. We provide email reminders each week, a comprehensive session workbook and free access to our audio recordings. To get the most from attending a course, either online or face-to-face, it is beneficial to practice every day for 20-40 minutes. 

A personalised link will be sent to you by email a couple of days before the session is due to run each week. This is how you will join the online sessions.

If you are unable to attend a live session at the time it is delivered live, the personalised link contains access to a recording which will enable you to access the webinar at a time of your choosing. These links will be available for 72 hours.

The next online course will be held on Mondays from 1pm until 3pm:

The mindfulness course is also available in a face-to-face group format, where members meet each week to practice together, learn skills together and talk about their experiences of learning and practicing mindfulness over the course of eight weeks. Each group consists of 12 to 16 participants, regular attendance at each session is essential as each session builds on the previous session.

Each weekly session lasts for two hours. We provide email reminders each week, a comprehensive session workbook and free access to our audio recordings. To get the most from attending a course, either online or face-to-face, it is beneficial to practice every day for 20-40 minutes. 

Due to demand we can only offer face to face Mindfulness courses to people registered with a Blackpool or Cleveleys GP