An opportunity for experienced mindfulness-based teachers, trainers and supervisors to come together for retreat and community. We will gather on Bardsey Island – a place of pilgrimage since the 13th century. It was also the place that MBCT crystallised as a programme, and the CMRP team began to form during a retreat led by Ferris Urbanowski in 1998, so it holds a special place in the development of our work.
The retreat will offer a daily rhythm of guided practice structured around the four foundations of mindfulness, including periods of sitting practice, mindful walking and movement; time for informal practice, including solitary space to rest into the experience of being on Bardsey island; spaces for communal activity such as meal preparation; and spaces for interpersonal mindfulness practice, and held reflections and dialogue on our practice, work and current life themes. We will practice in silence through each morning and have spaces for connecting in dialogue during the afternoons.