Contemplative practices to support wellbeing, connection, and a deeper appreciation of the simple joys of everyday life
Welcome to Your Mindfulness Journey
In a world that often feels busy and demanding, mindfulness offers an opportunity to pause, reconnect, and notice what nourishes us. Through meditation, reflection, and practising together in community, we can cultivate greater awareness, compassion, and appreciation for the richness of ordinary life, while also learning to relate differently to difficulty when it arises.
Your Mindfulness Journey offers practical, evidence-based mindfulness teaching to support coming out of autopilot and connecting more meaningfully in the present moment, both in work and in daily life. The practices draw upon mindfulness meditation, gentle reflective inquiry, and cognitive behavioural approaches developed through mindfulness-based programmes such as Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).
Whether you are navigating workplace stress, balancing caring responsibilities, managing change, or simply longing for more calm and connection in your life, mindfulness can support you in developing a steadier and more compassionate way of being.
Why Mindfulness?
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
About Joanna
I am a social worker and mindfulness teacher, with over 20 years’ experience working in NHS mental health services. I have supported people experiencing a wide range of emotional distress and mental health difficulties. I am a certified teacher with the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation.
Throughout my life and work, I have been drawn to contemplative practices as a way of meeting both the challenges and the richness of being human. Mindfulness has supported me not only in navigating the emotional demands of work, but also in noticing and appreciating moments of nourishment, connection, and simple joy in everyday life.
Alongside this, I am passionate about creating spaces where people can come together to practise mindfulness in community. While mindfulness can be deeply supportive as an individual practice, I believe there is something particularly meaningful about practising alongside others — sharing presence, reflection, and a sense of common humanity.
As a teacher, I offer warm, grounded, and compassionate spaces for practice. I encourage an approach to mindfulness that includes both learning to relate differently to difficulty and cultivating an appreciative, kind relationship with ourselves, others, and daily life.
Practicing together
Online Mindfulness Sessions, 8pm Monday evenings
Start the week with practices that encourage a sense of balance and connectedness. Sessions may include:
Guided meditation practices
Gentle inquiry and reflection
Practical mindfulness tools for daily life
Space to slow down and reconnect
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
These face to face sessions offer a gentle and restorative space to pause at the end of the week and reconnect with yourself and the world around you.
Sessions may take place in local green spaces or within the calm setting of my home studio.
Sessions may include:
Guided meditation practices
Walking meditation
Awareness of the senses
Gentle inquiry and shared reflection
Mindfulness sessions and workshops to support wellbeing, resilience, reflection, and sustainable working practices within organisations and teams.
Possible offerings include:
workplace wellbeing sessions
stress management workshops
mindfulness introductions
away day facilitation
reflective practice spaces
burnout and self-compassion workshops
Together with a co facilitator, I deliver a range of mindfulness courses including:
Introduction to Mindfulness
Finding Peace in a Frantic World
Mindfulness for Life (MBCT-L)
All Courses draw upon evidence-based mindfulness approaches developed by organisations including the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation.
Practicing together
“Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.”
Mindful Mondays
Ready to take the next step?
Whether you are curious about mindfulness, interested in practising together, or exploring opportunities for your workplace, I’d be delighted to hear from you.