Mindfulness, Compassion & Creativity Programme
A 4-week in-person programme for those working with children and young people. It blends evidence-based mindfulness and compassion practices with creative activity, giving you practical tools to manage pressure, recover faster, and stay grounded.
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Your staff show up for everyone else. This is for them.
Those who work closest with children and young people are absorbing a lot. Behaviour challenges, safeguarding pressures, emotional dysregulation, day after day. Over time, that accumulates. And when it does, it shows up as short temper, reduced patience, sickness absence, and eventually, good people leaving roles they genuinely cared about.
This bespoke programme gives staff something most CPD doesn't: time and tools to work on themselves.
Developed by MindfulnessUK and delivered in partnership with CICCIC, this 4-week programme blends the core foundations of the evidence-based Compassionate Mindful Resilience (CMR) programme with creative practice.
It's practical, it's grounded in published research, and it's already being used across the NHS, GP practices and social care settings.
Crucially, what they learn doesn't stay in the room. Participants leave with practices they can draw on in everyday life and adapt, appropriately, within their work with the children and young people they support.
CICCIC, Taunton
Mindfulness, Compassion & Creativity Programme
12th Jan - 2nd Feb 2027
Tuesdays, 09:30-12:30
£520pp
Spaces are limited to 10 people with deadline for deposit payments by Dec 15th to confirm your place
8 CPD points
Ability to manage pressure instead of reacting on autopilot
Tools to communicate with more care in high-conflict moments
Creative processes and techniques to support personal mindfulness and others
Karen Atkinson’s book on Mindfulness and Compassion
Refreshments & workbook materials
What Our Partners Are Saying
"The CMR programme gives organisations a practical, evidence-based tool to reduce employee stress and build genuine resilience, transforming workplace culture from the inside out."
“We ran a pilot and the feedback on it was amazing. It was easy for them to digest the information and to remember what was in the course and then go out and change habits and behaviours.”
"One young person told us that when he felt himself getting frustrated at home, he remembered the box breathing technique from the sessions and used it. They leave with strategies they can actually rely on."
"I would highly recommend this course to all education professionals and colleagues."
"We don't feel like robots anymore. I've started to respond with kindness, not just react on autopilot."
Meet Your Workshop Facilitators
KAREN ATKINSON
CEO of MindfulnessUK
Karen is the founder of MindfulnessUK and the creator of the CMR programme. With over three decades of experience in mindfulness and compassion training, she has worked with individuals and organisations across the NHS, social care and education.
ANGIE WARD
CXO of MindfulnessUK
Angie is MindfulnessUK's CMR Lead and brings this programme to life in the room. With over thirty years of experience across education, health and social care, and a celebration of neurodiversity woven into the way she teaches, she has guided hundreds of professionals through the CMR.
JENNY KEOGH
Jenny is an artist & creative wellbeing practitioner with over 15 years’ experience using art to support mental health & emotional well-being. Blending a Fine Art degree with qualifications in counselling, Jenny creates safe, non-judgmental spaces for pressure-free creative exploration. She has experience facilitating art groups for mental health support at the Arts Hub, Taunton.
Who Are MindfulnessUK & CICCIC? And Why Have They Partnered?
MindfulnessUK was founded in 2010 and has spent fifteen years developing and delivering mindfulness and compassion training across the UK and internationally. Based in Taunton, we are one of a small number of accredited mindfulness teacher-training organisations in the country, having trained hundreds of teachers now working across healthcare, education, workplaces and communities. Our programmes are internationally recognised, research-backed, and aligned with the leading professional bodies in the field.
CICCIC is Taunton's independent arts centre and ArtsHub, in the heart of the town. For over a decade, CICCIC has been a cornerstone of the local creative and cultural scene, running exhibitions, community workshops, wellbeing programmes, and arts education for all ages. Winners of the Best Creative Sector Support award for the South West of England, they have a long-standing reputation for doing something rarer than it sounds: using creativity as a genuine tool for community health and wellbeing, not just as entertainment.
When the two organisations met, the fit was immediately obvious. Mindfulness and compassion give people the inner tools to regulate and recover. Creativity gives those tools somewhere to land. Together they offer something neither would produce alone, a bespoke programme with the depth and warmth to create lasting change.
For more information on the programme, please contact either info@mindfulnessuk.com or info@creativeinnovationcentre.co.uk and we'll be happy to help.