Martin Wilks – Chartered Counselling Psychologist                                                         & Mindfulness teacher

Filed under: Uncategorized on April 26th, 2021 | Comments Off on In the eye of the storm

There’s an opportunity for purpose and meaning in the winter solstice moment – if one might feel that the 25’th, or the 1st is a bit bereft of that? – Here’s a great little article on that theme.

Filed under: Uncategorized on December 21st, 2018 | Comments Off on Merry Solstice folks

This is a really good opportunity to listen to first class teaching from top-class teachers. You can listen live for free- or subscribe for ‘anytime’ access and have the satisfaction of knowing that your subscription will go towards subsidising and promoting training for a new generation of mindfulness teachers Source: Waking Up in the World […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on September 23rd, 2018 | Comments Off on Waking Up in the World Free Access

MAGAZINEEARTH TOUCHINGSOCIETY & ENVIRONMENT The Greatest Danger To open the doorway to realization we must first confront our despair By Joanna Macy WINTER 2011 Photo by Yavor Punchev on Unsplash | https://tricy.cl/2ngMGMv Photo by Shawn Records How do we live with the fact that we are destroying our world? Because of social taboos, despair at the […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on December 19th, 2017 | Comments Off on Joanna Macey – as ever – inspirational

Filed under: Uncategorized on August 22nd, 2017 | Comments Off on Just under a month to go – still places available for both the weekend and the 5 day option

Hello everyone, hope you had a good summer. Here’s a pic of me last week sitting practice “on the rocks” in the Ardeche – cool way of being in a heat wave? I still have a brief chance to remind you that the next eight-week mindfulness courses in Ipswich and Woodbridge that I will be […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on August 15th, 2017 | Comments Off on “Who are you?” You might ask, “to be claiming to be a mindfulness teacher”

Working as a psychologist with mindfulness informed models of psychotherapy is deeply satisfying work. Working in dialogue with people towards finding their own internal resilience against repeated episodes of those all too common, human challenges: of depression, anxiety, stress, and addictive self-defeating patterns of behaviour is rewarding and it is a privilege to be in […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on July 18th, 2017 | Comments Off on Joining us for the autumn 8 week mindfulness course?

The cover story functions as a good call to action – AND, if you follow the suggested links in the article you’ll find a wealth of research papers supporting the proposition as something substantially more than wishful thinking. This is where I find the deeper seam of inspiration for ongoing personal practice, teaching and community […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on June 29th, 2017 | Comments Off on How mindfulness can help the shift towards a more sustainable society

Source: Finally, a breakthrough alternative to growth economics – the doughnut | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian

Filed under: Uncategorized on May 29th, 2017 | Comments Off on Finally, a breakthrough alternative to growth economics – the doughnut | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian

External Conditions for Stress The Buddha made it clear that mindfulness applies to outer circumstances, as well as the inner life. We direct mindfulness to external conditions to work to resolve the widespread social epidemic of stress. The current boom in mindfulness/self-compassion/well-being neglects the dynamics of the inner-outer circumstances. The current culture of mindfulness falls […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on May 19th, 2017 | Comments Off on In a recent blog from Christopher Titmuss: The current boom in mindfulness/self-compassion/well-being neglects the dynamics of the inner-outer circumstances.