Reading
Finding peace in a Frantic World by Mark Williams and Danny Penman - this is an excellent introduction to Mindfulness, and comes with guided meditation practices on a disk. This is a bestseller.
Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn - the book that is the origin of modern mindfulness. Kabat-Zinn is an American medical doctor who first started using mindfulness with patients suffering from chronic physical pain.
Watching
Healing and the Mind – Jon Kabat-Zinn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEJGPuPFIvc
45 minute documentary on the work of Jon Kabat-Zinn - fascinating insight into his early work
BBC breakfast news 12 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMsUGB_KV7s.
A journalist's experience of trying out mindfulness
Other mindfulness opportunities
I am a member of the West Surrey Mindfulness Network. All members of the network subscribe to nationally recognised training and supervision guidelines, as recommended by the universities of Oxford, Bangor and Exeter.
Other practitioners in the network - click on their names to see their websites.
Gill Johnson I attended Gill's 8 week MBSR course in Godalming and she also came to Claremont to teach my colleagues. She is a very experienced practitioner, and offers classes in Godalming and Guildford
Alison moved to Surrey recently having built up an extensive practice in West London. She has worked within the NHS, and the corporate world as well as doing public classes. She offers classes in Godalming and Farnham
Jackie McGarry Jackie is based in Guildford and offers a wide range of classes to a wide range of client groups.