Mindfulness courses for life transitions,stress and overwhelm

Cultivating Wellbeing, Clarity and Resilience

Mindfulness offers a gentle, evidence-based way to find calm, clarity, and resilience in times of change.
Whether you’re feeling ungrounded, overwhelmed, or simply out of sync with life, these courses help you learn practical skills you can use every day — not just on a cushion.

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters” - Epictetus

Why Mindfulness Matters

In our fast-paced world, it’s easy to get stuck in autopilot: reacting, striving, or just waiting for peace to arrive. Mindfulness helps you step out of that pattern by tuning into your experience with curiosity and kindness.

Through guided practice, reflection, and supportive group learning, you’ll learn how to:

  • Reduce stress and overwhelm

  • Calm a restless mind and reduce anxiety

  • Increase emotional balance and self-compassion

  • Improve focus, clarity & decision-making

  • Build daily habits that support your wellbeing

  • Foster deeper connection with yourself and others

  • Respond to life with steadiness rather than reactionMindfulness isn’t about “emptying your mind.” It’s about befriending your experience and learning to respond with wisdom and kindness — even when life feels difficult.ese are not mere bonuses — they’re the ripple effects of a simple shift: from reaction to awareness.

Mindfulness isn’t about “emptying your mind.” It’s about befriending your experience and learning to respond with wisdom and kindness — even when life feels difficult.

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy can help you to step back from your situation, give you the space to choose how to react to people and events in your life, manage your emotions and support your wellbeing.

Sue Brackstone, Standing and leaning to one side during a mindful movement practice. She has one hand on a cupboard to keep her balance.

The 8 week Mindfulness for Life Course, developed by the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation, has been proven to help with anxiety, stress and overwhelm. This is a structured, supportive online programme based on established mindfulness practices.

During this course you will learn;

  • Core mindfulness practices

  • To be fully present for yourself and others

  • To find your calm

  • To notice when your mind is scattered and bring it back to focus

  • To notice reactivity in yourself, and what to do next

  • New ways to respond to everyday difficulties

  • Simple grounding practices that you can use anywhere

  • To take care of your wellbeing with kindness and compassion

  • How to use these new skills in your everyday life

  • How to cultivate self compassion, curiosity and self acceptance

Each weekly session will be a combination of guided meditation/movement, cognitive exercises, reflection and discussion.

After each session you will be given a daily home practice to help you intergrate mindfulness into your daily life, this will include formal guided meditation as well as bringing mindfulness into daily tasks or events and creating new mindful habits.

Who Will Benefit

These courses are open to everyone — whether new to mindfulness or already practicing. You’ll find value if you:

  • Feel overwhelmed, drained, or “stuck in your head”

  • Struggle with stress, worry, or emotional ups and downs

  • Want to improve concentration, energy, or clarity

  • Seek to be more present in your relationships and daily life

  • Long for a gentler, more grounded way of being

Mindfulness isn’t a quick fix, and it’s not about “emptying your mind.” It’s a practice of befriending your experience and learning to respond with wisdom and kindness — even when things feel difficult.

Sue Brackstone sitting on a meditation stool during a mindfulness practice.

During each session you can lay on a yoga mat, kneel or sit on a meditation stool or cushion or sit on a chair. You may wish to have extra cushions or a blanket to hand and wear loose comfortable clothing.

The formal meditations can be practiced with eyes open or closed and you can remain sitting for the mindful movement if you wish. All sessions are via Zoom with captions and chat enabled.

There is a day of practice which will give you a chance to deepen your awareness. These run throughout the year, the dates will be confirmed at the start of each course.

This course includes a workbook developed by the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation to support your learning, and links to guided meditations for the home practice.

Click here for the 3 week Introduction to Mindfulness Course

Sue Brackstone, hearing loss coach, sitting on a chair and stretching upwards during a mindful movement practice.

This 8 week course costs £250 and includes:

  • Small groups of up to 10 people

  • Practices you can do at home

  • Digital copy of the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation MBCT Workbook

  • 1-1 follow up call after course ends

Mindfulness for Life Course Dates 2026

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You’re Welcome Here

These courses are open to everyone — whether you’re new to mindfulness or already practicing. All you need is an open mind and a willingness to explore your experience with kindness.

Sign up now or email me at sue@liveworkbreathe.com if you any have questions.