Follow up and advanced mindfulness and meditation courses and workshops

Want to learn and experience more mindfulness? Try one of our follow up courses or workshops. All courses are offered live and online via Zoom so you can learn from anywhere.

Mindfulness Plus are weekly Zoom based mindfulness and meditation booster sessions for people who want more mindfulness and meditation in their life.

Learn mindfulness or deepen your mindfulness practice with private one on one sessions with one of our expert mindfulness trainers.

One on one mindfulness training provides you with specialist coaching and training to address what you require or would like to explore in a private, safe and confidential environment.

“Thank goodness I came across Mindfulness Works. I have learnt so much in a year and am the happiest, most authentic and content that I have ever been. Learning acceptance without judgement has been an eye opener for me.” — Rebecca Young

“Mindfulness helps you to keep your thoughts in the present moment. As you practice, you tend to get better at calming the mind and keeping things in perspective. ” — Dr Grant Blashki is a practising GP and Beyond Blue’s lead Clinical Advisor

✔ Private, safe and confidential environment

✔ One on one personal attention and support

✔ Work privately with a highly experienced mindfulness trainer and coach

✔ Learn and explore practices that are suitable for your own level of experience from absolute beginners to those with extensive mindfulness experience

✔ Get straightforward and practical assistance and support for your mindfulness practice

✔ Reduced stress and anxiety

✔ Improved sleeping patterns

✔ Less self-judgement and more self-acceptance

✔ Greater feelings of joy and freedom

✔ How to get started with mindfulness including beginners mindfulness and meditation practices ✔ Working with difficult thought patterns ✔ Working with difficult emotions ✔ Mindfulness and relationships ✔ Self-compassion and self-acceptance ✔ How to establish mindfulness as a daily practice ✔ Questions and answers

One on one mindfulness training and coaching is for beginners as well as people with mindfulness and meditation experience. Your trainer will customise their training and coaching to suit what is most important to you. You are free to come to each session with questions or areas for exploration or you can ask your trainer to be more directive and suggest areas for exploration.

This one on one mindfulness training and coaching is delivered via Zoom. The steps involved are:

1. You select the mindfulness trainer or coach you would like to work with.
2. The mindfulness trainer or coach will contact you to provide pricing for you based on what you are requiring.
3. You decide if you would like to progress and if so, your sessions are booked in and you begin your one on one mindfulness training and coaching.

Carissa Brown

Carissa is passionate about all forms of natural healing, energy and its inter-dimensional power. She is of Maori descent and has practised many forms of healing through Massage / Mirimiri most of her life; aromatherapy, reflexology, Swedish massage, deep tissue, relaxation, sports massage, including Maori Healing, and the more ancient practice Kaha Ra Mirimiri, using hot stones and sound and working at a cellular level to help release and recalibrate cellular memory, releasing traumatic emotional triggers.

She is passionate about Meditation and its importance in everyday life, in staying balanced, centred and safe. Becoming an observer of her own innerness has been one of the biggest learnings and healings of her journey to date and is ongoing. The daily practice of meditation helped her find freedom from depression and PTSD. She feels honoured to have this opportunity to share this practice with others, to help them, as she helped herself, to remember how to be still, to be present, to be kind to oneself; knowing firsthand how powerful it is for people to understand this process for their own wellbeing and that of their families.

She has completed training in other methodologies of meditation — Transcendental Meditation, Beautiful State. So when the opportunity to become a part of the Mindfulness Works team, it absolutely felt 100% meant to be. She is really excited to have the opportunity to work with and share the freedom of nothingness, clarity, absolute LOVE, and did she say FREEDOM?

Carissa really looks forward to working with you, and sharing this gift of Mindfulness with you; trust her when she says it will change your life forever, if that is what you choose.

Chani Grieve

Chani has had a dedicated meditation practice since her mid-20s and has been teaching mindfulness classes, workshops and retreats in both New Zealand and Australia since 2012. She has participated in annual solo and group retreats ranging from a few days up to 3 months in length since 2009.

Chani moved from Australia to the Nelson region in 2017 to be in close proximity to her key meditation teacher and community, and receives daily inspiration from her community and ordinary people working to contribute to a healthier, happier, saner world. She also works as a Feldenkrais Practitioner and is passionate about helping people connect with their bodies and how they support a full and satisfying mindfulness practice.

Chani is an amateur painter and musician, loves the glorious outdoors, and is committed to promoting rest as deep practice to care for ourselves and the planet. She is delighted to share the powerful benefits of mindfulness in the community with Mindfulness Works.

Glenda Irwin

Glenda has a long established practice of mindfulness and meditation and is a lead facilitator for Mindfulness Works. She developed the official Mindfulness Works follow-on courses, Mindfulness 2.0 and Mindfulness and Relationships. She is a Trainer Master Coach for ANZCAL and in such, she trains both mindfulness teachers and coaches. Glenda is currently working on attaining a Grad Dip HSc Psychology with AUT.

Glenda is happy to see you in person or via Zoom. Situated in East Auckland, she offers ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and CFT (Compassion-Focused Therapy) both of which use mindfulness trainings, for clients working through relationship challenges, parenting issues, sleep concerns and all manner of goal setting.

During 2019 Glenda trained with UK specialist Dr Paul Gilbert, so as to offer compassion practices within mindful therapeutic support. The focus of Glenda’s approach, named ‘Respons-ability’, builds on our capacity to respond to life experiences rather than falling into the habitual patterns of reaction.

Dr. Heidi Douglass

Dr. Heidi Douglass is an American-trained Clinical Psychologist with over thirty-five years experience in the field of Psychology. This Scientist-Practitioner is an expert in the treatment of obesity, emotional eating, binge eating and behaviour change. She developed, and is the lead trainer of, the Mindfulness Works Mindful Eating program.

Dr. Douglass uses the power of scientifically proven behavioural strategies, mindfulness skills and talk therapy techniques to help her clients regain control of their eating behaviour and to feel more at ease in their body and mind. Her clients learn how to manage their weight safely; without dieting, counting calories or food restriction. Dr. Douglass delivers her training materials with an emphasis on science, kindness, compassion and fun.

Inspired by the research literature on how yoga can help her clients, Dr. Douglass became a registered yoga teacher at the age of 50. She is certified in plant-based nutrition-T. Colin Campbell Institute at Cornell University. She works with clients in person and online.

Lea Godfrey

Lea is a mindfulness teacher, specialising in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. Currently completing advanced supervision as a psychotherapist, she works in private practice specialising in Mindful Somatic Psychotherapy.

With a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Psychology from Waikato University, Lea has worked as a Lifeline counsellor, and also as a Bereavement Counsellor at Nurse Maude hospice. As a certified Buddhist Chaplain, she also assists the Spiritual Care Team, supporting the terminally ill and co-facilitating the Grief Support Group.

Lea has a long personal meditation practice, with seven years living in India and Nepal, she had the great fortune to meet meditation masters from the Tibetan tradition and to study and undertake retreats under their guidance. She also worked in the translation and publication of Buddhist texts.

Aware that meditation and mindfulness is a key to a healthy body and mind, she is passionate for others to experience the benefits of mindfulness practice and cognitive-behavioural skills training.

Lynne van Bilssen

Lynn  is a British trained cognitive behaviour therapist from 1979. When her professional organisation began promoting training workshops, she immediately signed up. She has done this for the last 12 years but prior to this, had the opportunity to complete a month-long course at Kopan Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal. The main focus, however, has always been teaching the 8-week Mindfulness Stress Reduction programme created by Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn, initially for pain management.

Lynne’s interest in mindfulness came through reading the work of Prof. Mark Williams who along with others, developed the use of mindful practice for severely depressed people. She has seen the benefits of this as a relapse prevention strategy in her own CBT practice.

Lynne returned to NZ five years ago and has continued using her CBT skills, firstly in community mental health in the Coromandel and more recently as a Health Improvement Practitioner at Invercargill Medical Centre.  Lynne also works privately as a CBT therapist.

Lucy Schwabe

Experience an integrated approach to bringing mindfulness and care more fully into your daily life.

Lucy’s philosophy of mind-body work has evolved over years of education and practice. Beginning with a Bachelor of Health Science, she qualified as a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner and certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher. She is passionate about a holistic approach to health and wellbeing, enjoys working with individuals and groups in the community and practising tai chi in her spare time. Her favorite slogan is ‘Choose to stay curious.’

Martin Wilson

Martin is the principal of and a personal/leadership coach with Selfmade Coaching and a graduate of Coach U Inc. He’s also been an associate for the Mental Health Foundation of NZ’s Working Well Programme as well as a director of the International Coach Federation Australasia Inc.

Previously, Martin was a commercial lawyer. Juggling being a busy lawyer, parent and an over-thinking, over-achieving self, contributed to Martin’s first ‘foray’ into meditation many years ago. He then developed a broader interest in mindfulness/self-awareness growth work, much of which he engages in as a coach. His principal meditation experience is from the Vipassana tradition and yet he is a keen explorer of other approaches.

Martin operates in a highly integrative way, ensuring mindfulness and coaching are not ends in themselves, but complementary ‘vehicles’ for negotiating successfully life and/or work changes or challenges and for growing as a person in a more self-aware, integrated way.

Pat Alexander

Pat is a Mindfulness Works facilitator, mental health clinician and registered social worker. She has a private practice and contracts with ACC, EAP and PHO. She works primarily with adults but also works with younger people.

Pat has been a mindfulness practitioner for the past 10 years and has recognised the value this brings to her and the people with whom she works. She keeps engaged and interested in this work through her own practice and supervision with a mindfulness teacher and by regularly attending retreats. She also facilitates workshops and retreats.

The focus of Pat’s work is based on awareness; emotional regulation and opening the heart using the breath, our senses and nature. She believes this helps us connect to our true authentic selves which helps anchor us in the present and manage whatever arises in our lives with greater compassion and support.

Rachel Tobin

Rachel has over 20 years experience working with people of diverse backgrounds and ages. She offers a mindfulness and movement-based approach. Through listening and skilful intuiting, she will guide you in the learning and practice of mindfulness and movement tools relevant to you. She is trained in mindfulness, qi gong and the Feldenkrais method.

Sessions will help you to accept and understand yourself more fully, to relax and let go of tension, overcome anxiety and depression, improve your relationships with others and generate health and wellbeing.

“I have found Rachel to be positive, warm and accepting in coaching sessions. This meant I was fully able to share myself and at the same time feel completely safe. It was the first time I felt deeply, in my bones, that I am totally OK, just as I am.”  — L. B. Wellington

Rachel loves helping and guiding people to open to their innate wisdom, and live their everyday lives with more joy, ease and wellbeing.

Susan Manning

Susan is a passionate mindfulness facilitator and coach. She offers a stimulating approach to bring mindfulness to life and accessible to people ready for change.

Mindfulness has been central to Susan’s approach to life over the past four years — reconnecting with her interest in meditation and personal growth while navigating great change. Experiencing the impact of mindfulness first-hand Susan wanted to bring this forth for others, clearly seeing the powerful application for both personal and business growth.

Susan is the Founder of Mindful People, a company focussed on optimising individual and organisational effectiveness using mindfulness approaches. Her corporate, entrepreneurial and personal experience positions her well to inspire and support leaders, small business owners and business start-ups in navigating growth and change. She also works with individuals navigating or wanting change in their lives, offering a range of courses including the 8-week MBSR programme, the most globally recognised, evidence-based mindfulness programme.

Her extensive background spans 25+ years in roles including training, human resources, senior leadership, organisational development, teaching and business start-ups. She has a Human Resources degree and Teaching degree (UK) and is currently completing a Diploma in Psychology. Susan is a Professional Member of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand (HRINZ) and is a Chartered Member of Personnel & Development (CIPD, UK).

Susan is a trained meditation and mindfulness teacher. She has completed Level 1 Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher training through Mindfulness Training Institute – Australia-New Zealand. Susan teaches from her own experience, gained through her own daily practice and regular attendance at seven-day silent retreats.

Susan moved to Napier eight years ago from Auckland. Originally from the UK, Susan now thrives on life in the sunny Hawkes Bay along with her husband and twins.

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Mindfulness Works is the largest mindfulness training organisation in Australia. Over 10,000 people have completed the Mindfulness Works Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation 4-week course. Mindfulness Works is committed to:

• Providing accessible and affordable mindfulness courses.
• Offering a diverse range of experienced and skilled mindfulness trainers.
• Providing courses in a practical format with exceptional supporting resources.
• Improving the mental health of all of us and fostering self-love in all.
• Supporting our facilitators with options for further professional development.

What people are saying about the Mindfulness Works Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation course and course facilitators

“I feel calmer. I am able to use techniques when my triggers go off. Using the meditation at night has allowed me to get a better night’s sleep.” — Sue Mathew

“Am so glad I did the course and would recommend it to everyone.” — Rosie Smith

“Huge reduction in anxiety, calmness of mind and body and empowerment over my symptoms.” — Jo Kirwan

“Since doing this course, I have been sleeping much better, I feel much more in control of my emotions. This means I am re-enjoying many things that I had been taking for granted.” — Sandy Good

“Thank goodness I came across Mindfulness Works. I have learnt so much in a year and have the happiest, authentic and content that I have ever been. By learning acceptance without judgement has been an eye opener for me. I’m continuing my journey of self compassion and feel excited and hopeful for my future. But am grateful of the now and who I am today…” — Rebecca Young

“Using mindfulness to help me better manage unrelenting anxiety, obsessive worrying & sadness. I have found that using the apps is helpful when having a stressful day, & I intend to keep practicing daily. Thank you.” — Cecily Wilson

“Mindfulness is now my go-to tool when I’m overwhelmed or need to re focus.” — Biljana Rufati

“The facilitator was exceptionally good. Really highly skilled.” — Victoria Barkway

“The facilitator took her time to explain things, asked questions, and was very enthusiastic and knowledgeable.” — Janine Taylor

“The facilitator was interesting, captivating, funny, down-to-earth, compassionate and extremely good at what she does.” — Rosie Smith

“The facilitator presented well and had a very calming demeanour. I looked forward to the class every week.” — Paulette Fraser

“[The course] covered all key areas of peoples’ basic issues and addressed them well. I also like the apps you recommend and all the extra info in the booklet!” — Biljana Rufati

Online learning delivered live via Zoom. Online mindfulness and meditation courses and courses for beginners as well as those with  experience.

FOR BEGINNERS

FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE COMPLETED A BEGINNERS COURSE OR WORKSHOP

FOR EVERYONE

Mindfulness Plus provides weekly Zoom based mindfulness and meditation booster sessions for people who want more mindfulness and meditation in their life.

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 $99 FOR A 3-HOUR WORKSHOP ON MINDFULNESS AND RELATIONSHIPS

‘Ultimately, Mindfulness is the wisdom that affords choice.’

IN THIS WORKSHOP

LEARN what it means to be mindful in our relationships.

UNDERSTAND how our own beliefs, patterns and hang-ups affect how we see ourselves and others.

EXPERIENCE the freedom gained through increased self-awareness and how this improves effective communication in relationships.

DEVELOP the power or attention and intention to support deeper, more meaningful, intimate and real relationships with significant people in your life.

LEARN to trust your own experience more and when to set boundaries based on it.

RE-DISCOVER your innate ability to form a healthy relationship with both yourself and others.

EVERYTHING IS A RELATIONSHIP

We are in relationship with our partner, our children, our family, our work, with our friends as well as with people we find challenging. We are in relationship with ourselves and ultimately with life itself.

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 ‘When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.’ – Dr Steve Maraboli

LISTEN

FEEL

LET GO AND LET BE

Explore the power of being present for both your own experience and being in the company of other people. Understand more fully what it is truly like to be heard and why we all need this.

Notice more fully the under-currents in our relationships; how often our words don’t match or can’t fully express what we are feeling. See how a greater awareness of our present moment feeling experience empowers us to make better choices and to be able to respond to challenging situations like conflicts with wisdom, including both asserting, being able to walk away and to set healthy boundaries.

Discover the tremendous freedom and joy that arises when we deepen into our experience and lessen off the need to fix ourselves or fix other people. Explore what it means to start from a place of genuine self-compassion.

WHAT IS COVERED IN THIS MINDFULNESS AND RELATIONSHIPS WORKSHOP?

DESIGNED BY GLENDA IRWIN | KEEPING IT REAL

This Mindfulness and Relationships Workshop was developed and is facilitated by Mindfulness Works lead trainer, Glenda Irwin in response to people’s requests for more mindfulness practices, especially those that are helpful in our day-to-day lives as well as  the major life challenges we all encounter.

Glenda began teaching mindfulness to children in 2010 as a response to her own challenges as a parent. She trained with Amy Saltzman (USA ‘Still Quiet Place’) and went on to write many courses and parent/child mindfulness lessons. She is the creator of ‘Mindful Colouring for Kids’.

Glenda is a director of Mindfulness Matters — teaching mindfulness to organisations and the general public. She is also trained in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy). Her principle teachers are Joseph Goldstein, Rick Hanson, Dr Paul Gilbert and her own son, Cameron Irwin.

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Refund and Transfer Policy

• Full refunds are available up to one week before the workshop starts.
• Free transfers to other courses are available up to one week before the workshop starts.
• Full refunds are available if you attend this workshop and do now get benefit or value.
• For more details about our refund and transfer policy, please read our FAQ.

Who is it suitable for?

This course is suitable for people with some existing mindfulness or meditation experience.

About Mindfulness Works

Mindfulness Works is one of the largest mindfulness training organisations in Australasia. Every month over 600 people attend the Mindfulness Works Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation course.

Mindfulness Works is committed to:

• Providing accessible and affordable mindfulness courses.
• Offering a diverse range of experienced and skilled mindfulness trainers.
• Providing courses in a practical format with exceptional supporting resources.
• Improving the mental health of all of us and fostering self-love in all.
• Supporting our facilitators with options for further professional development.

Testimonials for the Mindfulness Works Introductory Course:

“The course was very relaxed and friendly, and full of useful practical advice that recognised the limits to time that everyone faces. Also I liked the mix of people attending, with a range of different reasons for being there.” — Rosie Cree

“Since doing this course, I have been sleeping much better, I feel much more in control of my emotions, I have enjoyed ‘noticing’ my own state, but also it has transferred to everything around. This means I am re-enjoying many things that I had been taking for granted.” — Sandy Good

“The course guidebook was a useful guide and very informative. I also enjoyed the formal practice and the way different strategies were explained.” — Linda Daniell

$145 for a 4-week Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation course in Rotorua. Course includes four one hour classes with an experienced mindfulness trainer, downloadable guided mindfulness meditations and a 45-page guidebook.

“I am so glad I did the course and would recommend it to everyone.” — Rosie Smith

What is Mindfulness and Meditation?

Mindfulness is a simple and practical way to learn to observe our thoughts, rather than be trapped by them and worrying about the past or the future.

Meditation is sitting formally, focusing on our breath or body sensations. As we do this we experience greater ease and freedom. In all Mindfulness Works courses we sit in chairs.

“I feel calmer. I am able to use techniques when my triggers go off. Using the meditation at night has allowed me to get a better night’s sleep.” — Sue Mathew

“Since doing this course, I have been sleeping much better, I feel much more in control of my emotions, I have enjoyed ‘noticing’ my own state, but also it has transferred to everything around. This means I am re-enjoying many things that I had been taking for granted.” — Sandy Good

“I feel calmer. I am able to use techniques when my triggers go off. Using the meditation at night has allowed me to get a better night’s sleep.” — Sue Mathew

“Using mindfulness to help me better manage unrelenting anxiety, obsessive worrying & sadness. I have found that using the apps is helpful when having a stressful day, & I intend to keep practicing daily. Thank you.” — Cecily Wilson

“Thank goodness I came across Mindfulness Works. I have learnt so much in a year and am the happiest, authentic and content I have ever been. Learning acceptance without judgement as been an eye opener for me. I’m continuing my journey of self compassion and feel excited and hopeful for my future, but am grateful of the now and who I am today…” — Rebecca Young

FREE 4 week subscription to CALM included.

Every participant on the Mindfulness Works Introduction to Mindfulness 4-Week Course receives a free 4-week gift subscription to the award-winning CALM mindfulness and meditation app (premium version). This app was the Apple app of the year for 2017.

Meditate Learn the life-changing skill of meditation.

Sleep Get more restful sleep and wake up feeling refreshed.

Masterclass Audio programs taught by world-renowned mindfulness experts.

No Religion. No funny positions. No dogma. This course is practical and non-religious.

This particular course emphasises your own natural wisdom, your own innate OKness, right here and now. The instructions and guidance will be explicitly inviting you to embrace your whole human experience as it happens, moment by moment with a radical acceptance.

Course Outline

Week 1: What is Mindfulness?

• What mindfulness is
• The benefits of mindfulness and meditation
• How to get the most from the course
• Guided body scan mindfulness meditation
• Questions and answers / discussion.

Week 2: Working with the Mind

• Why thinking can be problematical
• Practical ways to work with difficult thoughts
• Self-judgement and how to intervene
• Guided mindfulness meditation – counting the breath
• Questions and answers / discussion.

Week 3: Working with Emotions

• What are emotions?
• Learning to feel emotions
• The RAIN method
• Non-judgement and acceptance
• Guided mindfulness meditation on feelings
• Questions and answers / discussion.

Week 4: Radical Acceptance

• What it means to be present
• How wanting causes stress
• Developing wisdom and insight
• Authentic self-compassion
• Open awareness guided mindfulness meditation
• Questions and answers / discussion
• Next steps.

“Am so glad I did the course and would recommend it to everyone. ” — Rosie Smith

“Huge reduction in anxiety, calmness of mind and body and empowerment over my symptoms.” — Jo Kirwan

“I feel calmer. I am able to use techniques when my triggers go off. Using the meditation at night has allowed me to get a better nights sleep” — Sue Mathew

“Using mindfulness to help me better manage unrelenting anxiety, obsessive worrying & sadness. I have found that using the apps is helpful when having a stressful day, & I intend to keep practicing daily. Thank you.” — Cecily Wilson

“The course was very relaxed and friendly, and full of useful practical advice that recognised the limits to time that everyone faces. Also I liked the mix of people attending, with a range of different reasons for being there.” — Rosie Cree

“Since doing this course, I have been sleeping much better, I feel much more in control of my emotions, I have enjoyed ‘noticing’ my own state, but also it has transferred to everything around. This means I am re-enjoying many things that I had been taking for granted.” — Sandy Good

“The course guidebook was a useful guide and very informative. I also enjoyed the formal practice and the way different strategies were explained.” — Linda Daniell

Mindfulness and Meditation teacher,
Susannah Engel

Susannah has been a searcher and teacher for a better way to live since being introduced to yoga and nutrition by her grandmother at an early age. Her background includes running a therapy practice as a bodywork practitioner and Alchemical Hypnotherapist. She has led an eclectic life travelling, raising a family and extending her knowledge in matters of consciousness and creating a spiritually-based life living in the marketplace.

Susannah knows that the key to overcome change and loss while remaining centred is the key to our life and the infinite.

Susannah has worked with people in the corporate world co-running problem-solving workshops and has hands-on experience beginning and running small businesses.

Over the past ten years she has been involved in the education sector, graduating from Waikato University with a Professional Education degree. Currently working as a primary school teacher, she is embarking on further training to bring mindfulness into the classroom. Susannah is passionate about her yoga practice which in turns strengthens her mindfulness.

Outside the busy world of teaching Susannah loves her organic garden, her little house in the forest and observing nature. She is excited about working with the Mindfulness Programme to reach many people on the path to their own presence.

Mindfulness Works is one of the largest mindfulness training organisations in Australasia. Over 25,000 people have attended the Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation 4-week course throughout New Zealand and Australia.

Mindfulness Works is committed to:

• Providing accessible and affordable mindfulness courses
• Offering a diverse range of experienced and skilled mindfulness trainers
• Providing courses in a practical format with exceptional supporting resources
• Improving the mental health of all of us and fostering self-love in all
• Supporting our facilitators with options for further professional development

Refund and Transfer Policy

• Full refunds are available up to one week before a course starts.
• Free transfers to other courses are available up to one week before a course starts.
• Once a course has started, full refunds are only available if you attend every class of the course and feel you have not got value. In this case you are entitled to and will be given a full refund.
• Refunds are not given if you do not attend every class of the course and if you simply ‘do not like’ the course or decide ‘it is not for you’.
• For more details about our refund and transfer policy, please read our FAQ.

How long is each weekly class and what happens?

Each class is one hour long. There will be a guided meditation for a period. This will include meditation instruction. After the meditation and instruction, there will be a talk or discussion. This includes a question and answer time.

Who is it suitable for?

This course is suitable for any of the following:

• 18-year-olds and over
• Beginners
• People who have never meditated or practised mindfulness before
• People who have just started meditating or practising mindfulness.

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Mindfulness Works is New Zealand’s largest mindfulness training organisation and provides non-religious, practical mindfulness courses for absolute beginners.

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COURSE INCLUDES FREE 4 WEEK GIFT SUBSCRIPTION TO THE CALM MINDFULNESS APP PREMIUM VERSION

ALL INTRODUCTION TO MINDFULNESS & MEDITATION COURSES ALSO INCLUDE…

• 4 classes with an experienced mindfulness educator and facilitator

• A 45 page professionally designed guidebook

• Over 15 guided mindfulness meditations for you to keep (even after the course finishes)

• Weekly emails with instructions and links to videos for the length of the course

• No risk money back guarantee – if you attend the complete course and do not get benefit you are entitled to a 100% refund.

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“Mental Health Foundation mental health promoter Grant Rix says mindfulness has been shown to benefit our brains to such an extent that we can feel calmer, more aware, have an increased ability to focus and concentrate, remember things better and feel happier.”

– NZ Mental Health Foundation Press Release July 2012