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The Art of Zen – 6 Week Introductory Course
24 Jan 2025
Online
Experience how Zen and mindfulness can transform your life.
Start of a 6-week introductory course, with a two-hour group session at the same time each week.
Gain a grounding in mindfulness or refresh your practice
Mindfulness and meditation helps us to live a fuller and happier life, by being fully focused on the present moment, not absorbed in regrets, plans, worries or other thoughts.
By practising mindfulness we create stillness, allowing us to see more clearly what brings us happiness and what causes suffering. With this awareness, we can make positive choices in everyday life.
Mindfulness is rooted in Buddhist meditation, with effects verified by neuroscience, and as such is open to non-Buddhists and Buddhists alike.
Experience guided meditations, small group discussions and practical exercises. Available online over six weeks, or as weekend retreats in-person.
We are currently offering the following courses.
The Art of Zen was formerly the “Be Calm Be Happy” course.
Introductory course offering concrete ways to generate energy and wellbeing, and to ease painful thoughts and emotions. In the 6 sessions you will learn how to meditate effortlessly and to bring joy into your daily life. Read more..
A follow-on course from The Art of Zen, refreshing and extending your practice in the Plum Village tradition. The course supports grounding ourselves in Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings, giving deep roots to our peace and contentment. Read more..
Our third course, after The Art of Zen and Looking Deeply, in which we explore how to bring the Five Mindfulness Trainings (5MTs) fully into our lives, using them as practical guidance and spiritual friends on our path. Read more..
Specially adapted course based on the The Art of Zen, reconfigured to focus on the application of mindfulness in support of neurodiversity issues such as ADHD and PTSD. Read more..
course
24 Jan 2025
Online
Experience how Zen and mindfulness can transform your life.
Start of a 6-week introductory course, with a two-hour group session at the same time each week.
course
24 Jan 2025
The Briery Retreat & Conference Centre, Ilkley
Our Art of Zen Mindfulness Retreat 2025 will be held at The Briery, Ilkley, West Yorkshire, a beautiful and tranquil venue set in its own gardens and a short walk from the town of Ilkley. The Art of Zen course was formerly called Be Calm Be Happy.
course
27 Jan 2025
Online
Experience how Zen and mindfulness can transform your life.
Start of a 6-week introductory course, with a two-hour group session at the same time each week.
course
6 Feb 2025
Online
Experience how Zen and mindfulness can transform your life.
Start of a 6-week introductory course, with a two-hour group session at the same time each week.
course
3 Mar 2025
Online
A 6-week follow on course from Be Calm Be Happy.
Refresh and extend your practice in the Plum Village tradition
course
5 Mar 2025
Online
This is a specially adapted course based on Plum Village UK’s traditional Art of Zen mindfulness course, reconfigured to focus especially on the applications of mindfulness in support of neurodiversity issues such as ADHD and PTSD
course
5 Mar 2025
Online
A 6-week follow on course from Looking Deeply
Using the trainings as practical guidance and spiritual friends on our path.
course
8 Mar 2025
Durham Yoga Studio, Crossgate Centre, DH1 4HF, Durham
Experience how mindfulness can transform life’s stresses and increase contentment in this weekend mindfulness course, based on the well-loved, and practical teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh.
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9 May 2025
Liston Hall, Marlow
Experience how mindfulness can transform life’s stresses and increase contentment in this weekend mindfulness course, based on the well-loved, and practical teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh.
course
4 Jun 2025
Online
This is a specially adapted course based on Plum Village UK’s traditional Art of Zen mindfulness course, reconfigured to focus especially on the applications of mindfulness in support of neurodiversity issues such as ADHD and PTSD
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