Mindfulness

Mindfulness advent calendar (winter scene)

To support you in the run up to Christmas, here are our recommendations for some mindful activities that you can build into your day.

The good is there too (image of a flower poking through a fence)

In this post, we explore how focusing on the positive can lead to greater happiness and build a greater capacity to deal with adversity.

Burnout (image of some burnt matches)

In this post, we discuss the concept of burnout and explore the key ways that you can avoid it.

Image of a footprint in the sand, symobolising impermanence

In this post we discuss how embracing impermanence can lead to coaches developing greater resilience and peace of mind.

Mindfulness session

To help you to pause and reset, we will be providing a free guided online mindfulness practice every Monday.

Mindfulness sessions

To help you to pause and reset, we will be providing a free guided online mindfulness practice every Monday.

A winter scene

In a year that has been full of threats, triggers and challenges, how might you pause and really take in the good?

Mindfulness on World Mental Health Day

Catalyst 14 will be supporting World Mental Health Day by offering you the chance to join a free guided mindfulness practice.

Support

As the early months of 2021 bring another lockdown, we will again be offering free mindfulness sessions throughout it — to help you find a regular space to support your self care.

“Our mind becomes more spacious, more open, and happier as we move past our avoidance and denial to see what is true.” — Joseph Goldstein As England moves […]

Mindfulness sessions in June

To support you during the current crisis, we’re pleased to extend our free mindfulness sessions in June 2020.

Wellbeing parachute

As lockdown continues, and the psychological impacts of isolation and staying at home start to be felt by us all, we want to continue to support your personal wellbeing.

Mindfulness sessions

In these challenging times, we want to provide additional support to you by offering a series of free mindfulness group sessions.

Pillars

In this post, we look at nine key principles of mindfulness practice.

Person finding a space to breathe

In this post we look at ways you can make space for reflection and practise self-care; we also explore the benefits of doing so.

A person being mindful at a retreat

Damion Wonfor and Monica Ross discuss the personal and professional benefits of attending a retreat.

Becoming your own friend

In this blog post we look at self-compassion as an important way of building resilience, and share an audio exercise to help you practice it.

A pause (image of a stopped clock)

When we are lost in our negative thoughts, leaders’ ‘buttons’ often get pushed and they start to react – or over-react – before being consciously aware of it. In this post we discuss how attaining a habit of pausing during the day provides us with the opportunity to wake up from autopilot and develop a more conscious style of leadership.

A person being mindful

In this post we define mindfulness, explore some common myths associated with it and give some practical tips on how to introduce mindfulness to your everyday life.

Getting started with a mindfulness practice

In this blog post, we discuss some key things to consider when setting up a formal mindfulness practice, including location, posture and habit formation.

Image of a plane symbolising using mindfulness to wake up from automatic pilot

In this article we discuss how you can snap out of automatic pilot, and embed a mindfulness practice in your daily life.