About the training:

Integrated Action: Mindfulness-based Climate Resilience
Instigating global recovery through mindfulness, compassion, and the work that reconnects

The challenges of our age demand immediate action but there is a mismatch between our awareness of the threats we face and our level of response to them. Mindfulness and compassion-based approaches develop a greater awareness of, and kindness to, the self, other people, and the world around us. Such training equips us to turn towards and befriend difficulty in ourselves and in our lives. Integrated Action builds upon this approach, enabling us to turn towards, befriend, and act upon global difficulties such as polarised aggression, social inequality, and environmental breakdown. Mindfulness helps us to face the issues, compassion connects us with our care for them and Integrated Action engages us in skillful behavioural response. This 2-and-a-half-day in-person, non-residential Integrated Action course combines mindfulness and compassion-based approaches with exercises from Active Hope and The Work that Reconnects to bring about courageous change in the face of a global emergency.

Intentions for the workshop:

To build on capacities cultivated in 8-week mindfulness-based practices.
To broaden the focus of mindfulness and compassion-based approaches to global suffering and the flourishing of the planet.
To initiate active hope, kindful action, pro-social behaviour, and responsiveness to the challenges of our age, through the application of ‘the theory of planned behaviour’.
To cultivate an awareness of external conditions, such as the practice of ethics, that contribute to both individual and global suffering and well-being.
To cultivate ‘experiential knowing’ of the ‘deep ecology’ of our species, interconnection, and the ‘oneness’ of life and the planet.
Elements of Training

This training includes:

A deepening in mindfulness and compassion practices.
Embodied experience of interconnection through insight practice.
An exploration of both external and internal conditions for global suffering and flourishing.
Exercises that engage people in responsive action over-reactivity and can be integrated into both personal and teaching practice.
Who is the workshop for?

This training is for people with a grounding in awareness and/or compassion-based approaches who are interested in social change. Participation in an 8-week mindfulness or compassion-based course such as MBCT/MBSR/MSC or equivalent will inform attendance. Those training to teach such approaches may be interested in exploring ways to integrate this work within their teaching context.
This in-person event is non-residential and you will need to book your own accommodation. See below for more details.

Pre-requisites:

Participants need to have been meditating regularly for at least six months using practices that are compatible with mindfulness-based approaches.
Participation in an eight-week mindfulness-based program would be of benefit
Please include details of participation and training on your application form.

Participants must commit to the entire in-person training. Unless there are exceptional circumstances, we are unable to negotiate late arrivals or early leaving. If this is not possible, please contact us to discuss it before applying.

What to bring/wear:

This training will utilise the Mindfulness Network Community site for joining information and course materials.

Please note: This in-person event is non-residential and you will need to book your own accommodation.

Please consider the timings of the event when you plan your accommodation.

Mats and cushions will be provided. Please bring your own equipment if you prefer.

Loose and comfortable clothing is advisable.

Refreshments will be provided throughout the day and participants will need to purchase or bring their own food at mealtimes.