Courses for anxiety,
stress and depression
(MBSR)
Mindfulness Course to Reduce Stress (MBSR)
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Mindfulness Stress-Reduction Course​​
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When: Saturdays, Jan 31 - March 28 | 9.30-11.30am
Where : Online (Live via Zoom)
Experience: All levels welcome - from beginners to regular practitioners
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Try it first for free: Join us for a 60-minute online taster session on Tuesday, Jan 6th and 13th | 9-10am.
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What’s Included in Your Journey
We provide everything you need to feel supported throughout the eight weeks:
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Deep Learning: 16–24 hours of live guidance, including an orientation and 8 weekly classes.
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Home Practice: A comprehensive course handbook and MP3 guided meditations to help you practice with ease.
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Stay Connected: Need a little extra help? You’ll have access to optional online drop-ins and direct email/phone support between sessions.
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Hybrid Retreat Days: New for 2026! Choose to join our Retreat Days online or in person for a deeper experience.
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Course Investment
The total cost of the course is £195
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Making Mindfulness Accessible
We believe mindfulness should be available to everyone. We offer a limited number of reduced-rate places for those on low incomes, as well as new flexible payment plans and sliding scale options.
If you’d like to discuss these options, please reach out—we’d love to help you find a way to join us.
Please get in touch to learn more.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction helps you respond to challenges more effectively. Mindfulness meditation and other skills you learn in the MBSR course can help you develop resilience and your overall wellbeing. To learn more about what mindfulness actually is, visit our What is Mindfulness? page.
We teach the MBSR Jon Kabat-Zinn course, the gold-standard course that offers secular mindfulness training. You'll learn how to meditate, and use guided meditations and other mindfulness exercises to learn how to relax. It's a lot more than simply how to stop overthinking, how to get rid of anxiety, or how to be happier.
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Our curriculum incorporates trauma-informed mindfulness practices and emerging research on neuroplasticity to enhance emotional regulation.
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Your 8-week journey to greater resilience and peace/calm
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​The Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program is a step-by-step guide to living with greater ease and happiness. Here is what we will explore together:
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Phase 1: Building the foundation
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Week 1: Coming Home to Your Body​​
We’ll begin by introducing the core principles of mindfulness. You’ll learn the relaxing Body Scan meditation and discover how Mindful Eating can help you enjoy food more and eat in a way that nourishes you.
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Week 2: Settling the Busy Mind​​
Learn gentle techniques to quiet "mental noise" and overthinking. We’ll explore simple breathing exercises designed to help you relax and calm a busy mind
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Week 3: Finding Stillness in Motion
Mindfulness isn't just for sitting still. This week, we explore Mindful Movement, using simple Yoga-style moves, that can be done sitting or standing, to help you feel grounded and calm.
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Phase 2: Navigating Life’s Challenges
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Week 4: Mastering Your Stress Response​
Understand how your body reacts to pressure. You’ll gain practical tools to soothe anxiety and shift from "reacting" to "responding" with ease.​
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Week 5: Finding Calm in the Storm
We dive deeper into managing intrusive thoughts. You’ll learn specific breathwork techniques to navigate intense moments or feelings of panic with confidence.
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Week 6: Emotional Balance & Connection
Discover how mindfulness improves our relationships. We’ll learn to navigate difficult emotions—like fear, sadness, or anger—with compassion and clarity rather than feeling overwhelmed.​
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🌿 A Moment for Reflection: The Retreat Day
Sunday, March 15 | Dorking, Surrey
We hope to host an in-person retreat day! This is a complimentary gift for all MBSR participants. It’s a beautiful opportunity for quiet reflection, guided meditations, and deepening your practice in a peaceful setting.
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Phase 3: Lasting Change & Joy
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Week 7: Nurturing Your Well-being​
This week is about kindness toward yourself. We’ll look at our daily habits and lifestyle choices, learning how to choose the routines that nourish you and gently move away from those that don't.
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Week 8: Cultivating a Life of Happiness
In our final week, we consolidate ideas and techniques from the whole course. You'll develop your own mental health plan, exploring how you might sustain what you've gained from the course, and continue to develop skills for greater calm, resilience and wellbeing.
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Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation
Our MBSR stress reduction course
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- Depression
- Sleep problems ​
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- Intrusive and obsessive thoughts
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- Anger issues
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- Physical pain and illness
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- Compulsive behaviours such as
binge eating
Through mindfulness training,
you develop skills to:
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- Treat anxiety attacks
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- Stop overthinking
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- Treat panic attacks
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- Be happier and more relaxed
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- Increase confidence and
self-compassion
Mindfulness meditation class, Dorking, Surrey
Hear from Catherine - why Mindfulness Meditation?
"If you want to conquer the anxiety of life,
live in the moment,
live in the breath."
One-to-one or private group sessions
For more personal sessions, the one-to-one or small group experiences may be for you. We're happy to tailor mindfulness training for your needs. Small group sessions are available online, and in-person around Reigate, Redhill and Dorking, Surrey, or further afield.
One-to-one coaching can be helpful if you're struggling with:
- a major issue, such as bereavement
- panic attacks
- anxiety
- intrusive thoughts, overthinking
- chronic pain or illness.
Developing your ability to be kind and caring to yourself, as well as to others, is at the heart of our approach to mindfulness training.
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We offer the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course for individuals or a small private group.
Dates can be arranged at a time to suit you, ideally with weekly sessions that last:
- 75 minutes, online,
- 90 minutes, in-person.
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Catherine has delivered one-to-one coaching to young people and adults for many years.
These can be taken in Brockham, Surrey or online via Zoom.
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One-to one or private group MBSR course cost:
Online, one person - £800
Online, two people - £1,300
In-person, one person - £900
In-person, two people - £1,500
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One-off sessions for individuals - £70 online, £80 in-person.
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The in-person classes are in Brockham, near Dorking, Surrey RH3 7JY.
Please contact us to discuss costs for a private group of more than two people, or if you would like sessions in your own home.
Introduction to mindfulness course
Get in touch to ask about our next introduction course
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£45 for 3 sessions
Includes 3 optional, online drop-ins
(6 - 9 hours of teaching)
Weekly course content
Week 1:
Introduction to what mindfulness meditation actually is.
Mindful Eating and Body Scan meditations.
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Week 2:
Techniques to help reduce stress and anxiety, and to help with depression.
Mindfulness meditation to help with sleep problems.
Mindful movement (simple Yoga-style movements).
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Week 3:
Strategies to deal with intrusive thoughts and to stop over-thinking.
Also how to be kinder to ourselves.
Testimonials
"I am learning to label my thoughts, to relax, to be objective. I feel the course is excellent and I really look forward to the sessions."
Jane, Art teacher
"I'm quite a seasoned meditator and have been telling friends that this (MBSR) the best course I've ever done. I wish I'd done something like this many years ago!"
Dione, course participant
Directions to our Surrey venues
Taylor Place
1-22 London Rd,
Dorking,
Surrey RH4 1GS​
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Zoom meditation and mindfulness classes
Mindfulness training is very suitable for online learning via Zoom classes and Catherine is trained to teach MBSR online. No technical expertise is necessary and we're happy to help if you're new to Zoom. You can also connect with your phone.
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In light of the increase in anxiety following the Covid-19 pandemic, mindfulness meditation training was adapted to online formats and digital applications, supported by 2024 studies showing sustained symptom reduction (see 'Smith et al' research.)