23/08/2026
✨ What if this could be the year you began to change your relationship with addiction, cravings and your own mind? ✨
🌿 What if you could meet yourself with more understanding, rather than more judgement?
It’s that time of year again… time to offer the Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery (MBAR) course. 🧘♀️
An 8-week online course for anyone who wants to explore their relationship with addictive or compulsive behaviours, thoughts, emotions and urges — with curiosity, compassion and without judgement.
This course may be for you if:
🌱 You are in recovery and would like to deepen your self-awareness and meditation practice.
💛 You find yourself caught in addictive or compulsive patterns and want to understand what might be underneath them, rather than simply trying harder to stop.
🫂 You are looking for support, connection and encouragement on your journey through change.
🧠 You experience racing or obsessive thoughts, difficult emotions, or a mind that feels impossible to switch off.
🌊 You often feel overwhelmed, anxious, low or disconnected, and would like to develop kinder and more supportive ways of responding to yourself.
🕊️ You’re longing for more peace, choice and steadiness in your life.
🤝 You work in the field of addiction recovery and would like to deepen your mindfulness skillset and experience how this approach can support the people you work with.
The Mindfulness-Based Addiction Recovery (MBAR) course offers a practical, evidence-based approach to understanding the patterns of thinking, feeling and behaviour that can contribute to craving and compulsive habits.
Over the 8 weeks, you’ll learn practical mindfulness tools to help you understand your patterns and meet cravings with greater awareness. To create more space between what you feel and how you respond.
Your guide, Mel, discovered these tools through her own recovery journey and continues to use them daily. Her life has changed immeasurably for the better, something she never thought possible.
Mel is a trauma-informed registered teacher with the British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (BAMBA) and has trained under global leaders Dr Gabor Maté and Valerie Mason-John.
This course is offered in conjunction with Mindfulness Cornwall.
Through guided mindfulness practices, reflection and gentle exploration, you’ll learn to become more aware of what’s happening within you — and begin to create space between an urge and your response.
This isn’t about judging yourself, forcing change or getting everything “right”.
It’s about developing a different relationship with yourself:
More awareness.
More compassion.
More choice. 🌿
The course is suitable for people experiencing compulsive or addictive behaviours, those in recovery, and professionals who would like to explore addiction through a mindfulness lens.
📅 21 September – 9 November
🕖 Mondays, 7–9pm (BST)
💻 Online via Zoom
If you’re feeling that quiet sense of “maybe it’s time to try something different”, you’re warmly invited. ❤️
You don’t need to have it all figured out.
You don’t need to be “ready” for perfect change.
You can simply begin where you are.
🎟️ Find out more and book your place:
https://buytickets.at/mindfulnesscornwall/
🌿 Come as you are. Explore with curiosity. Leave with more tools, awareness and compassion for yourself.
