The Compassionate Mindful Resilience programme was designed to widen access to compassion, mindfulness and resilience, ensuring as many people as possible can encounter, engage with and experience these practises, tools and strategies. For this reason, the course is short, just 8-hours in total, with shorter practices, the minimum being 10 seconds and the maximum only 10 minutes.

It is experiential and practical in nature and what is learnt can be applied in any chosen moment such as in a meeting, when having a conversation, shopping and whilst sitting in a phone queue waiting to be answered.

We saw an opportunity in society to open up something that for a long time has been restricted in its reach, understanding and the time it takes to learn. We recognised that there is now an opportunity, even an imperative, to bring mindful and compassionate practice into the mainstream. To recognise that many of us are struggling at the things the world is throwing at us and the AI shift will increase the number of us falling under and sinking.

So much of what we now do in our lives nowadays encourages and supports us in being separate, a situation that can only lead to isolation and associated mental and physical health problems. The power of learning this in a group setting is tangible and helps us to reconnect, as our neurological systems are hard-wired to do. We aspired to bring into the world an evidence-based training programme that can help more individuals, companies, families, communities build resilience, step back, step out and be more aware of what it means to be human. To connect, be kind and thrive.