Leeds Mindfulness Cooperative
Accessible mindfulness & compassion training for all
We offer mindfulness activities and training for individuals, community groups and workplaces in Leeds, Bradford and Yorkshire.
Here’s some of the things we do
Mindfulness courses
We run 8 week courses based on the Breathworks mindfulness program to support people with their health and wellbeing, teaching skills to help manage stress and anxiety as well as pain and long term health conditions.
Working in the community
We work with partners in the community to make our courses available to all, offering a flexible approach and adapting our program and resources to meet the needs of different groups.
Working with organisations
We can provide courses and events for your organisation, including businesses, charities and schools/education. These range from staff wellbeing sessions to Mindfulness in the Workplace training and bespoke programs for different client groups
Working with professionals
Whether you want to learn to lead simple mindfulness activities, develop your own practice, are looking for mindfulness supervision or want a mindfulness teacher to work with your clients, we can match you with one of our team.
Resources
Explore some of the meditations and ideas we use.
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News & Blog
Over the last six months one of our Directors has been completing a Business for Good programme - on top of all her usual work for the co-op and delivering multiple mindfulness courses! Laura Smith received her graduation certificate at a celebration event following...
Expanding our work in Bradford
Leeds Mindfulness Co-operative have received new funding from the Windhill, Idle and Saltaire Healthy and Happy (WISHH) Community Partnership. We will be running an 8-week Breathworks Mindfulness for Health course and taster session in Shipley/Saltaire for people with...
Mindfulness in Nature at Seacroft Forest Garden
We were delighted to talk about Leeds Mindfulness Co-operative's work at a Climate Action Leeds celebration for new grant holders on October 24th. It was fantastic to hear about all the climate action, nature and community work that is happening around the city. This...
New! Compassionate Mind Training
We are now offering the exciting new 8 week Compassionate Mind Training course, based on the work of Paul Gilbert and Chris Irons. The Breathworks courses that we run introduce the 3 emotional regulation model that is part of Compassionate Mind training. We are really...
Celebrating the co-op’s work
We celebrated our work over the last year at our annual general meeting. This year has seen us continue to work with established partners across Leeds as well as working with a few new partners. We would like to particularly thank Chris Jackson for his work as a...
Climate Action Leeds funding
We are delighted to have been awarded a Climate Action Leeds 2024 microgrant. The project will be delivered in partnership with Climate Action Seacroft and will be based in LS14 (Killingbeck community allotment and Seacroft Forest garden). We will be delivering an...
Research collaboration
Many of our mindfulness teachers have research backgrounds and we integrate research evidence into our CPD and design of our programmes, as well as contributing to research studies. Laura Harrison also works as a researcher in the Department of Environment and...
Working Together
