WHY CHOOSE MINDFULLY AWARE?

Mindfully Aware offers high quality Mindfulness courses and Mental Health First Aid training. Established 2014, founded by Donna Brown.

The high quality courses that have been carefully selected from organisations that are leaders in the field of mental health first aid training and mindfulness practice and research and have been proven over many years to deliver benefits.

We try to create a nurturing, relaxed environment and will support and encourage you not only during the course but also afterwards.

Mindfulness

The mindfulness we teach is secular (non-religious, non-spiritual).  We don’t sit crossed legged (unless you want to…. and can!), we sit on chairs, lie down or stand up (whichever is most comfortable for you)… and we don’t chant.

Mental Health First Aid

The Mental Helath First Aid courses are all MHFA England courses and accredited to the Royal Society of Public Health.

Donna Brown, the founder of Mindfully Aware, has first-hand experience of both the physical and mental effects of severe stress, anxiety and mild depression.  This experience – of the combined mental and physical effects of stress along with the benefits that mindfulness can bring – puts her in a unique position to help individuals to improve their own lives.

Prior to setting up Mindfully Aware, Donna worked as an Executive in the public sector and before that as a Director within private industry.

“It was while suffering with severe stress and anxiety in the workplace that I was introduced to mindfulness.   I now believe that I would have been able to prevent a lot of my own suffering had I known how mental health affects physical health and how mindfulness can help.”

Donna has been practising mindfulness for herself since 2008.  She completed her own 8 week mindfulness course with Bangor University and went on to be trained as a teacher with Breathworks in their approach to:

• Mindfulness Based Pain Management
• Mindfulness for Stress.

Donna is now an Associate of Breathworks providing peer to peer supervision.  In addition she trained with Bangor University Centre Mindfulness Research and Practice, Oxford University Mindfulness Centre and Mindfulness Network CIC at University of Exeter.  To qualify as a mindfulness teacher and a mindfulness Supervisor Donna has been trained in accordance with the UK Network for Mindfulness-Based Teachers Good Practice Guidelines for teaching mindfulness-based courses and adheres to their standards.

To become a Mental Health First Aid Instructor Donna trained with MHFA England the only teaching MHFA organisation in the UK recognised by The Royal Society of Public Health.

She is an Associate of Breathworks CIC, a Mindfulness Supervisor and Teacher.  In addition, she trained with Bangor University Centre Mindfulness Research and Practice, Oxford University Mindfulness Centre, Mindfulness Network CIC at University of Exeter.

In voluntary roles Donna works on the SHOUT Crisis text line and at the Surrey and Borders NHS Trust Recovery College n Camberley.