Bespoke training tailored to your organisation:
Supporting the mental well-being of your employees
Working with MindfulnessUK At Work
Mindfulness has been proven to reduce stress, anxiety and conflict. It can also increase resilience, emotional intelligence and improve communication in the workplace.
Prioritising well-being for staff can foster a more positive business culture and working with MindfulnessUK is an opportunity to not just "tick a box" but drive true cultural change and embed employee well-being into your business values.
Covid 19 has created so much change in such a short space of time. There have been fundamental changes to everyone's day to day work life from no longer travelling into an office, managing your workload differently, to working with your colleagues in a more remote way.
Why work with us:
Following a MindfulnessUK workshop, will provide improved health and well-being, more resilience, and focus and productivity. All leading to a more collaborative and cohesive team.
Our latest blog 'The Benefits of Creating a Mindful Workplace Culture' explores ways of creating a mindful workplace culture and how, if this is developed, an organisation could look and feel positively different, reaping the benefits in the longer term. To stay up to date with our latest news and blogs click here.
What we offer
4-week Compassionate Mindful Resilience Course
These programmes have been designed for the work environment. Each week we will focus on mindfulness and compassion in a shorter and targeted format, reducing stress and anxiety and improving resilience and communication, which is now more important than ever.
Bespoke Workshops and introductory events
Every business is unique as are your employees and we will work with you to establish the most effective programme that will drive a cultural change, whether that be workshops or a longer-term programme.
Mindfulness Based-Stress Reduction programme for the workplace
The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course in the workplace is evidence-based and proven to significantly change brain activity, improve employee happiness and resilience and lead to a sustained cultural change.
Train Staff To Teach Mindfulness and Compassion at Work
Either train staff in-house to become Mindfulness and Compassion Well-Being Advocates or fund them to gain a Level 4 qualification through an Awarding Body.
About MindfulnessUK
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Meet the team
Karen Atkinson
Karen has been teaching mindfulness for over 30-years and is the Co-founder and Senior Partner of MindfulnessUK, an author of Compassionate Mindful Inquiry in Therapeutic Practice, a trustee of the British Association of Mindfulness-based Approaches (BAMBA), a teacher and trainer of mindfulness and compassion skills and practices, and a Bangor trained supervisor of mindfulness teachers.
Stephanie Unthank
Neil is an experienced meditator and has co-lead on numerous retreats, weekend courses, and 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction courses over the last 10 years. He trained to deliver the 8-week MBSR course with Bangor University and has helped facilitate regular Buddhist teaching and meditation sessions since 2005. He found co-leading at MindfulnessUK’s previous retreats at Sharpham House to be a joyful and enriching experience, and looks forward to the privilege of doing so again within this beautiful and unique setting close to the summer solstice.
Vera Dubrovina-Thompson
Vera is a Director of Mindfulness UK At Work and an experienced Yoga Therapist and Mindfulness teacher. Following a 21-year career in the Financial Services sector Vera is incredibly knowledgeable in how mindfulness can make a difference in the workplace. Vera’s interest in yoga, meditation and mindfulness practices started back in 1992 in Kazakhstan. After moving to the UK and gaining an MSc in Economics and Finance Vera held a number of leadership roles in UBS, Barclays, HSBC and Lloyd’s Banking Group. Understanding first-hand the pressures of working in the city and making it only work for her through the use of meditation and mindfulness practices, Vera finally decided to leave Finance and focus on working in alternative therapies space. Vera’s therapeutic approach is based on delivering simple, effective, and researched-based mindfulness tools that help reduce stress, build resilience and drives employee well-being.
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