Mindfulness: Session 1, Finding Calm – Intro to mindfulness and stress relief techniques

Mindfulness is a technique you can learn which involves noticing what’s happening in the present moment, without judgement. You might take notice and be aware of your mind, body or surroundings. The technique has roots in Buddhism and meditation, but you don’t have to be spiritual or have any particular beliefs, to try it.

Mindfulness aims to help you:

• become more self-aware
• feel calmer and less stressed
• feel more able to choose how to respond to your thoughts and feelings
• cope with difficult or unhelpful thoughts
• be kinder towards yourself.

All our Mindfulness workshops are linked but you don’t need to attend each one.

General information

New Directions is a local project that helps unemployed young women (18-30) build a better future through FREE employability support and life skills development. The support is offered in and around Rushmoor, Hart and Camberley with a drop-in and workshop hub at the Aldershot Enterprise Centre in Aldershot.

The support we offer includes 1:1 guidance with hands-on employability support such as writing and updating CV’s, drafting cover letters, applying on-line, and job interview practice. The 1:1 support includes a needs analysis and development of an action plan. We also use the virtual reality platform Bodyswaps as a tool to prepare participants for job interviews.

All workshops for young women between 18-30 are in person and include lunch, unless indicated otherwise. Come and join us! Free Parking available at the back of the Aldershot Enterprise Centre.

This workshop is made possible with funding from The National Lottery Community Fund.

Bookings   

Eligibility rules apply and in some cases spaces are limited. Attendees need to be female, aged between 18-30 and live locally to Rushmoor.

For bookings, our 1:1 employability support and our events programmes email: hello@newdirections.org or phone Angela on 07934 130666. If you can’t make it, please let us know so we can give your place to somebody else.

Where?

New Directions Hub @ Aldershot Enterprise Centre, 14-40 Victoria Road, Aldershot GU11 1TQ – close to the railway station and local job centre. There is a free car park at the back of the building to the building (please register your number plate at reception when you arrive). We will meet you in reception.

Lunch is provided at our events, please let us know beforehand if you have any dietary requirements.

* based within a 10-mile radius of Aldershot? Talk to us about having your travel costs refunded.