Welcome to this week’s update: a summary of everything we’ve shared on social media throughout the week.

DAILY SIT SCHEDULE

Week commencing 01 April 2023

Ahead of Monday’s reminder, here is the daily sit schedule for the week commencing 01 April 2023. To register, click on the image. If you have already signed up to our daily sits, keynotes, or social evenings, there is no need to register again, we use the same zoom link for all these sessions (please do check your spam folder if you have recently registered and not received the link). Please reuse the link given to you on your first registration for each future session.

SHARING FROM THE OMF

With thanks to academics in the field, we are sharing research with the OMF community.  You can read more from a 2023 paper – Beneficial Effects of an Online Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Sleep Quality in Italian Poor Sleepers during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Randomized Trial by clicking on the image below.  The research and reporting in this article are independent of the OMF.

This week’s quote comes from Sharon Salzburg, New York Times bestselling author and teacher of Buddhist meditation practices in the West.

This week’s book reading is the poem Wild Geese by Mary Oliver. Read by OMF’s Sally Bolton.

We’ve also shared some mindfulness news. Click on the image below to read the Guardian article: Mindfulness better than CBT for treating depression, study finds.

The research and reporting in this article are independent of the OMF.  Image taken from the article.

KEYNOTE

Next week we have our April keynote. Caroline Hickman will discuss: How can Mindfulness help us when facing the difficult truths of the climate emergency; apocalyptic disaster or transformational moment in history?

For more information, please click on the image below.

LEARN MINDFULNESS

There are plenty of opportunities to discover Mindfulness for Life with us in April 2023. We have a course with Liz Lord and Sara Pikkarainen starting on Friday 07 April 2023. For more information, please click on the image below.

We are also offering a Frame by Frame course in April 2023. This will be led by Tim Sweeney starting on Tuesday 18 April 2023. For more information and to apply, please click on the image below.

TEACH MINDFULNESS

Mindfulness-informed Cancer Care. Due to the last programme being oversubscribed we have worked with Trish Bartley and Christina Shennan to schedule another workshop starting in August 2023. For more information, please click on the image below.

RETREATS & PRACTICE DAYS

We are offering several practice days throughout April and May. These offer an opportunity deepen your mindfulness practice in a supportive online group setting. They are designed for those with an existing practice and teachers (or trainee teachers) of mindfulness-based programmes. For more info and to apply, please click on the image below.

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