Learn practical, science-backed ways to reduce stress, manage difficult emotions and build lasting resilience.

Are you feeling stressed, anxious, overwhelmed or emotionally drained?

This funded eight-week Stress Reduction Course offers a supportive space to slow down, reconnect with yourself and learn practical tools that you can continue using long after the course has finished.

Drawing on modern research, neuroplasticity and practices from the Zen tradition, the course will help you understand how stress affects your mind and body and how you can respond to life’s challenges with greater calm, awareness and resilience.

Throughout the eight weeks, you will explore:

• Practical mindfulness and meditation techniques

• Ways to calm and regulate the nervous system

• Understanding your personal stress patterns

• Tools for working with difficult thoughts and emotions

• Developing greater self-awareness and emotional resilience

• Simple practices to support your wellbeing in everyday life

You do not need any previous experience of mindfulness or meditation. The course is welcoming, accessible and suitable for complete beginners.

Must attend taster session

Wednesday 30 September 2026 at 7.15 pm

Come along, meet Dawn and experience some of the practices before deciding whether the full course is right for you.

Eight-week course dates

Every Wednesday from 14 October to 2 December 2026

7.15 pm to 9.00 pm

Venue

Springbank Manor Hotel

Darwen

Cost

Places are fully funded, but numbers are limited. Please only reserve a place if you are genuinely interested in attending the course.

About your teacher

The course is led by Dawn Juson, an experienced Zen meditation, mindfulness and Zen yoga teacher and Director of Reconnection to Wellness CIC.

Dawn creates warm, inclusive spaces where people can explore practical ways to reduce stress, reconnect with themselves and build skills for lifelong wellbeing.

This course forms part of Thriving with the Seasons and has been made possible with support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund.

For further information, contact:

dawn@reconnection2wellness.org

www.reconnection2wellness.org

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