Learn how to use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)’s powerful evidence-based mindfulness strategies to provide you relief from worry.

As humans we all worry at times. It’s a normal cognitive process.

Worrying is actually the mind’s attempt to problem-solve & to make us feel safer. However, when worry becomes excessive, it can lead to overthinking, overwhelm, anxiety and a paralysis which saps our confidence.

There is good news! Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) provides powerful evidence-based mindfulness strategies that work to provide you relief from worry and overthinking.

In this workshop, you will gain a greater understanding of worry.

• You will learn about the characteristics of worry – what keeps it going & makes it worse.
• You will learn how to increase your awareness so you can intervene and take useful action, for example, turning worry into constructive problem-solving.
• You will participate in a meditation designed specifically for managing worry.
• We will also provide links to useful resources so you can continue your learning about ways to reduce worry and overthinking.

Debbie is an Occupational Therapist with 30 years’ experience working in mental health and cancer care. She is highly experienced in the areas of stress and anxiety management with a particular interest in mindfulness.  She is trained in Mindfulness Based Cognitive therapy and Acceptance Commitment therapy as well as many other modalities.

Feeling angry or frustrated is a normal human reaction—even the Dalai Lama admits to moments of anger. However, when anger becomes unbalanced or out of control, it can be harmful.

Mindfulness techniques help reduce reactivity, allowing us to express our needs healthily and without harm. The key to managing anger lies in understanding its triggers and applying effective antidotes.

Your mindfulness teacher, Nat, knows this firsthand. Growing up in her European family, anger, tears, and storming out were as common as sunrise and sunset.

The Antidote Within isn’t just about calming your own anger; it also helps you understand others’ anger, enabling you to mend and heal relationships.

In this workshop, you’ll learn:

• How anger works, including its surprising link to anxiety.
• Techniques to calm your mind and approach life with patience and compassion.
• Simple mindfulness practices to manage and diffuse heated emotions.

Nat is a certified Mindfulness Works teacher and Wellness Coach, a Buddhist meditation teacher and an ACT Mindfully Practitioner and is also accredited with Meditation Australia.

Learn how to use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)’s powerful evidence-based mindfulness strategies to provide you relief from worry.

Understand the causes of overthinking and what to do to prevent it.This workshop blends heart-centered mindfulness practices, the power of intention and intuition with insights from neuroscience, to reduce overthinking and feelings of overwhelm.

Learn and apply techniques that reorient you so that you can navigate challenging situations and make decisions with less angst and confusion and with greater ease.

Enjoy a sense of being more grounded and in control of your mental and emotional state.

What you will learn in this workshop:

• Heart based mindfulness strategies reduce overthinking and create more calm and stability.
• Neuroscience insights that explain how stress affects your brain, and how you can rewire to enjoy greater calmness and stability.
•  Practical tools to feel more grounded, in control and to stop the cycle of overthinking and overwhelm.

Karen Bradford is a  Certified Mindfulness Works Teacher who specialises in stress management and chronic pain Management. Karen is also a Registered Nurse and has over 10 years’ experience as a corporate trainer creating, developing and delivering education and facilitating workshops to professionals.

Karen is qualified in self-compassion mindfulness through the Centre for Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) and has studied extensively ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy, a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy). She is also a qualified mentor/coach with HeartMath Institute specialising in building resilience. She has a keen interest in neuroscience and has studied with Dr Sarah McKay from the Neuroscience Academy, Applied Neuroscience and Brain Health course. She also has a Certificate, Diploma and Master Diploma of Clinical Hypnotherapy.