Mindfulness for everyone
For individuals and organisations
Openground offers evidence-based mindfulness programs that create lasting transformation and positive change.
Our mindfulness courses, retreats and workshops are designed for individuals and organisations and are led by our team of highly skilled, experienced and dedicated teachers.
Openground exists to share the practice of mindfulness with everyone. We’ll get you started on your journey of cultivating the lifelong skill of mindfulness, encouraging you to engage with the heart of the matter and discover more resilience, effectiveness and authority in your life, moment-to-moment.
Find out more about Openground, and explore our courses to take your first step towards real and lasting transformation.
Openground is thankful to be endorsed by Emeritus Professors
Jon Kabat-Zinn (founder of MBSR) and Mark Williams (co-founder of MBCT)
Courses
Find an evidence-based 8 week mindfulness course in your area
Workshops
Get more specific about the applications of mindfulness
Retreats
Enjoy delicious food, space and ample time to practice mindfulness in a community
Organisations
Book a complementary consultation about how mindfulness can improve your workplace
What is mindfulness
Put simply, mindfulness is the practice of paying attention, on purpose, and with open-hearted curiosity, to the present moment – to what is happening in your body, your mind and in the world around you.
Mindfulness is all about living in the present - being aware of what is happening right now, instead of dwelling in the past or focusing on the future. Cultivating this ability to observe, without judgement, can help us to respond to our experiences with clarity and focus, rather than reacting out of old habits and patterns.
Cultivating a regular mindfulness practice can help us move towards greater balance, choice and participation in our lives. It can give us the capacity to feel more curious, to live with greater acceptance, and to accept our thoughts, emotions, physical sensations and situation, without judging them as good or bad.
Mindfulness opens up the possibility of living with more authority and working wisely and compassionately with life’s challenges, so we can choose what is most nourishing, for ourselves and others.
Learn MoreMindfulness training has changed millions of lives around the world.
How will it change yours?
Focus and presence
Cultivate more concentration and capacity to be in the moment with what matters to you most, here and now.
The practice helps interrupt endless rehearsing the future and rehashing the past and to arrive in the moment, again and again.
Savour your precious life.
Stop procrastinating.
Become present with loved ones and your work
Emotional calming
Reduce reactivity, learn to befriend your emotions and to express them in ways that set clear and caring boundaries.
The practice helps to digest difficult emotions and cultivate more positive states including calm, interest, warmth, vitality and compassion
Dissolve anxiety and irritation.
Find more peace and ease.
Understand the process of your own mind
Clarity and wisdom
See your patterns and values with more clarity so that your actions can be more beneficial to yourself and others
The practice helps to grow confidence in building new habits and more choice in responding to challenges
Be curious.
Recognise your situation.
Act with courage.