This eight-week Interpersonal Mindfulness programme was developed to support people in integrating their mindfulness practice into their relationships with others.

OVERVIEW
Relating to others is a fundamental aspect of our everyday lives, with family, friends, in the workplace and in our wider community. For some of us, it is at the core of our professional practice. Our relationships can be a source of well-being where we feel connected to others and also a source of stress when miscommunication and disconnection inevitably happens.

The Interpersonal Mindfulness Program (IMP) has been developed by the Centre for Mindfulness and the Metta Foundation in the US. It has been designed to teach those with prior mindfulness/ meditation training to integrate the benefits of their personal meditation practice into the context of their relational lives: deepening presence, empathy and compassion. Click here for a first feasibility study on IMP.

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR?
This course is developed for the general public and will be of particular interest to health care professionals wishing to deepen their presence in their working relationships. It also fulfils the pre-requisite for professional teacher training in Interpersonal Mindfulness Programme Teacher Training (IMPTT) offered by the Sussex Mindfulness Centre in October 2027.

WHEN?
Thursday evenings 6.45pm to 9.15pm (GMT). The eight-week course starts on 1 October and runs until 19 November 2026 with a full day (10am-4pm) on 24 October.

WHERE?
Online. You will get Zoom log-in details when your place is confirmed.

THE FORMAT?
Eight weekly two-and-a-half-hour sessions and a full day session where you will learn and practice six relational meditation guidelines.
We will work with carefully guided and timed contemplations drawn from Eastern and Western wisdom traditions to support the development of insight and self-understanding. We will do this in pairs or in small groups, as well as engage in group conversations.
Daily meditation home practice of between 20-40 minutes.

FACILITATOR

Rosalie Dores is a mindfulness teacher, supervisor and trainer. She completed a five-year masters degree in teaching mindfulness at Bangor University, with distinction as well as holding a Certificate of Teacher Competency. She teaches general and workplace populations, as well as one-to-one Distance Learning Programmes. She offers supervision and personal practice mentoring for The Mindfulness Network CIC, as well as conducting MBI-TAC assessments. She has been practicing mindfulness and yoga since 1992. She also teaches Insight Dialogue retreats and Interpersonal Mindfulness courses.