Mindfulness Plus
Bite sized, live mindfulness based workshops to improve your wellbeing.
Upcoming Mindfulness Plus Workshops – Scroll Down to See All Workshops.
Loosen the grip that anxiety has on your life and even see it as a friend that’s there to help and guide you.
Anxiety can be one of those things that help energise us to get through our to do list with a sense of urgency … Or it can be debilitating, have you feeling on edge and nervous about what’s coming up, or replaying a conversation that didn’t go so well. During this relatable session, Nat will share insights and techniques that you can use to loosen the grip that anxiety has on your life and even see it as a friend that’s there to help and guide you.:
What You Will Learn:
- An understanding of anxiety including the neuroscience behind why anxiety is important for human evolution
- A toolkit of options to help reduce your anxiety that you can draw upon in the heat of the moment
- A new perspective of living with your anxiety as a friend who is there to support and guide you.
Facilitated by Nat Mallia
Nat is a certified Mindfulness Works teacher. She has immersed herself in a life of mindfulness since 2015 after facing the prospect of going blind from a corneal degeneration disease. Nat never gave up on the prospect that if she calmed her mind and accepted her situation, she would be ok. After spending three months in a Buddhist meditation centre in 2018, a shift occurred in Nat’s eye and with the help of surgery, a miracle occurred — she regained her sight!
Nat decided to leave her Executive role in the Australian Government and followed her long-time dream of moving to the beach, where she established her own meditation and wellness practice to share the gifts of mindfulness with others. Nat is a certified Wellness Coach, a meditation teacher and an ACT Mindfully Practitioner and is also accredited with Meditation Australia.
Learn how to transform from feeling overwhelmed to experiencing joy through essential self-care skills.
Modern life is challenging. There are constant financial, relationship, work and family demands. Self-care practices are vital for mental and emotional wellbeing. In this transformative workshop delivered by mindfulness expert, Michelle Eckles you will learn practical ways to reset your nervous system, reduce symptoms of stress, increase your resilience and experience greater joy and freedom in your life.
Self-care also ensures you have enough gas in your tank to support others. After all, you can’t pour from an empty cup!
Discover the science behind self-care and learn how to easily incorporate it into your daily life.
What You Will Learn:
- An understanding of happiness chemicals – what they are and how they influence your state of mind.
- The difference between pleasure and happiness, and why it matters.
- Tools for incorporating self-care into your daily routine.
- A comprehensive list of self-care activities to explore and enjoy.
- Guidance on how to create a personalised self-care plan that suits your unique lifestyle.
- This workshop also includes short self-care practice workbook.
Facilitated by Michelle Eckles
Michelle Eckles is a qualified and accredited Mindfulness Meditation teacher and owner of Meditation Sunshine Coast. She has been teaching mindfulness meditation programs and workshops to kids, teens and adults since 2018. She has completed qualifications in Guiding and Teaching Meditation (Australian Centre for Mindfulness and Meditation), Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Training (Gawler Foundation) and Mindfulness for Peak Performance (Monash), as well as various courses for working with kids and teens. She is a member of the Australian Meditation Association and Mindful.org and author of Cultivating a Calm Mind.
Navigating memory changes and dementia with confidence. Learning to protect, prevent, and support.
Maintaining brain health is vital, especially from midlife onwards. Annie Harvey will lead an interactive hour on brain health, covering normal memory changes, warning signs and mindfulness practices to help.
As a recently trained Dementia Doula, she will also share strategies for supporting loved ones with dementia, but more importantly, how to support yourself.
Understanding and aiding those in our communities is essential.
Take charge of your brain health and help others do the same.
Facilitated by Annie Harvey
Annie is a certified Mindfulness Works teacher. She is also a tutor, keynote speaker and has been a wellbeing coach since 1999, Annie works one-on-one and in workshops to help with stress management and encourage people to live their lives with purpose. Trained formally in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), Annie believes that living a life on purpose whilst using mindfulness skills in everyday life, is the only way to experience real joy and success.
Life doesn’t always have to be a struggle. Tap into your natural capacity for joy to make it more accessible and present in your life.
Life can often feel like a struggle. There is always something to do and something to sort out.
You may feel like you are constantly grinding instead of living. There are relationship, family, work, health and financial challenges.
The pressure of modern living affects us all, and joy can seem far away.
The good news is that there is an effective solution! And it’s closer and easier than you think.
It does not take much to remember and re-awaken your capacity for joy.
Learn how to put down the burden and allow yourself to relax into an easier and more supportive way of being in this workshop.
Chani will lead you through mindfulness practices that re-awaken your in-built natural capacity for joy, ease and equilibrium. Book now and re-awaken and strengthen your innate and natural capacity for joy and ease.
In This Session You Will:
- Re-discover your natural joy and ease, right now.
- Feel empowered to navigate life’s challenges without losing your capacity for ease.
- Experience feelings of joy, connection and intimacy.
Facilitated by Chani Grieve
Chani is a certified Mindfulness Works teacher. She has had a dedicated meditation practice, undertaking annual personal retreats for over 17 years, and has been teaching mindfulness classes, workshops and retreats in both New Zealand and Australia since 2012. She supports participants to connect with their inspiration, trust their own experience, and use their practice to contribute to a healthier, happier, saner world.
For the last six years, Chani has been co-facilitator in the six-month online program “Celebrating This Precious Life — Honest Conversations on Death and Dying”. Through this program, Chani has worked with hundreds of people, sharing practices that support mindfulness and connection, releasing and belonging.
Meditation and mindfulness for people who think they can’t meditate.
People give up on meditation because they believe that they ‘just can’t do it’ or it is not for them. You may feel like “Everybody else seems to be able to do it except me”!
Certified Mindfulness Works Teacher Kovido Maddick brings his lifetime of meditation experience to show you that meditation is far easier than you think.
Stating out on his journey as a Buddhist Monk in the Thai Forest Tradition, Kovido has widely traversed the meditation, mindfulness and personal development terrain.
This has included dance, movement, Osho, breathwork, psychotherapy, men’s groups.
Kovido has been curious about how setting meditation up as a goal and trying to get it right, can make meditation far harder than it needs to be.
His quest has been fuelled by a deep desire to know peace, to relax and to be at ease with himself.
Kovido brings his insight and wisdom to offer you a chance to relate to yourself and meditation in a fresh way.
In this workshop you will:
- Learn how to develop a meditation practice that works for you
- Learn how to move beyond overthinking meditation, and trying to get it right.
- Explore meditation in an entirely fresh way, with a greater focus on trusting your intuition and your soft human heart.
Facilitated by Kovido Maddick
Kovido Maddick is a certified Mindfulness Works teacher. He has over 35 years’ experience in mindfulness and meditation and spent 10 years training as a Buddhist Monk in the Thai Forest tradition under Ajahn Sumedho. He has been teaching Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction programmes since 1996.
He is co-facilitator of the Dunedin Men’s group, and is a Hakomi Graduate. Although his training is primarily Buddhist he is very eclectic drawing on the wisdom of many different traditions and contemporary teachers including Rumi, Osho, Ajahn Chah, Ram Dass, Jeff Foster, Thich Naht Hanh.
What To Expect With a Mindfulness Plus Session
100% non-judgmental environment — no pressure, no expectation, no agenda
Experience an environment where you can just be as you are. No pressure to talk and no pressure to be any particular way. If you do talk, experience being actually listened to, without being judged or ‘fixed’.
Connection, compassion and community
Small groups of like-minded and like-hearted people all together in the session. Seek out your favourite teacher and enjoy the genuine support that comes from having a live teacher and practising with a group.
Modern approach. Ancient wisdom
Sessions incorporate the latest neuroscience which are presented in a totally non-religious way but also call upon 2,000 years of insight and wisdom that has been developed by meditation practitioners.
Your authority. Your journey
Mindfulness Plus sessions always emphasise your own authority and your freedom to develop your own practices that work for you.
Reaffirming you are completely OK
All teachers re-affirm your own OKness and encourage you to discover and affirm this in yourself as well.
Designed and Facilitated by Mindfulness and Wellbeing Specialists
Karl Baker
Founder Mindfulness Works. Radical Self-Acceptance specialist.
Annie Harvey
Tedx speaker, Author and mindfulness specialist.
Neil Shepherd
Mindfulness and neuroscience specialist.
Nat Mallia
Mindfulness and mindful eating specialist.
Karen Bradford
Resilience and mindfulness specialist
Cherise Vallet
Mindfulness and MBSR specialist
Paul Bibby
Mindfulness and resilience specialist.
Lucy Schwabe
Mindfulness and MBSR specialist
Linda Mullen
Mindfulness and ACT specialist
Dr Katya Zhuravleva
Mindfulness specialist.
Jade Lee
Mindfulness and breathing specialist.
Tracie Story
Mindfulness, addiction & trauma specialist.
Alan Foley
Mindfulness and resilience specialist
Bodhi Preyer
Mindfulness and forgiveness specialist
Nishtha
Mindfulness and narcissism specialist
Ryan Delaney
Mindfulness and personal growth specialist
Bodhi Preyer
Mindset and self-worth specialist
Stephen Archer
Lead Mindfulness & Meditation Teacher
Simone Davis
Naturopath and Diet/Food Specialist
Want something more in-depth?
Join the next Introduction to Mindfulness and Meditation 4 Week Course. Facilitated by Karl Baker, founder Mindfulness Works.