In episode 3, I have a beautiful conversation with mindfulness mediation teacher and teacher trainer Trish Bartley, where she shares practical advice and wisdom around how to bring mindfulness into our lives to support our mood and relationships with others and the world we live in.
Trish specialises in teaching mindfulness-based courses to people with cancer. When she was training to teach mindfulness in the late 1990s she had cancer herself and from there she developed the 8 week Mindfulness-Cased Cognitive Therapy Course for Cancer.
Her practice of mindfulness began many years before her involvement in teaching mindfulness to those with cancer, to support herself during a period of deep grief following her brother’s death. She shares invaluable advice from her many years of practice to those new to mindfulness and inspiration for those who meditate already.
Trish is also one of the founding members of the core training team of the Centre for Mindfulness, Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University. She currently teaches on the masters programme, and trains teachers and leads retreats in the UK and abroad.
In the episode we cover topics such as:
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In the episode she mentions a big project coming up soon which offers free or low cost mindfulness to those with cancer or wishing to teach those with cancer, send her a message via her website if you are interested > http://trishbartley.co.uk/
Trish has written several books, one for those wishing to teach mindfulness to people with cancer called ‘Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer: Gently Turning Towards' and a book to for people with cancer called 'Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer’. Trish has just released her latest book, written with Gemma Griffith called “Teaching Mindfulness-Based groups,” where they share their wisdom of many years teaching Mindfulness-Based Groups and training teachers.
Find her books here > http://trishbartley.co.uk/?q=mindfulness-and-cancer-books
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Find a Mindfulness-Based Course Teacher in the UK (also lots of online teachers for those not in the UK), a great place to look is the BAMBA website: https://bamba.org.uk/ BAMBA stands for British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches.
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About the show host, Katie Austin...
I am mindfulness meditation teacher based in Cornwall in the UK and I am trained through Bangor University to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). This is an evidence-based 8 week mindfulness course that draws from the ancient wisdom of Buddhist meditation, modern psychology and neuroscience to support you to shift your relationship to stress in your life to reduce unnecessary struggle and experience greater peace and ease.
You can find out more about me and my offerings here: https://www.katieaustinmindfulness.co.uk
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The podcast will drop every two weeks on a Friday! Happy listening, happy meditating.