Mindfulness has been the subject of great interest and popularity in recent years, thanks to a rapidly expanding scientific research evidence base confirming that it can be helpful for many mental and physical health problems, as well as for improving well-being more generally in life.

Mindfulness practices are not new and have origins 2500 years ago in the contemplative traditions of Asia, especially Buddhism. In the last 40 years they have been formulised into the therapies of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). Leading universities are now researching and teaching mindfulness, and there is a large all-party parliamentary group promoting its use in health, education, criminal justice and the workplace. Increasingly, research is showing the profoundly beneficial effects that mindfulness can have on the mind and body, on our sense of wellbeing and on our relationships with ourselves and others. This workshop is a chance for you to find out what it’s all about and to try it out for yourself.

In basic terms, mindfulness is a simple yet profound state of mind and body which is focused and self-aware. It is a life-enhancement skill and approach to living which can deepen our sense of well-being and fulfilment. It involves learning to notice what is occurring in our present moment experience, with an attitude of openness and non-judgmental acceptance so we can feel more connected, real and alive. When we practise mindfulness we are more aware of the things that help us to be calm and happy. We are also more aware of our thought patterns that take us in the opposite direction. With this awareness, we can take positive choices in everyday life.

Mindfulness is both a skill and a way of living. It is about living in the here and now rather than being caught in the past or worrying all the time about the future. It’s knowing what’s going on inside your mind and body, and what’s going on in the outside world as well. Mindfulness is easy to learn and accessible to every one of us. It is a quality or skill we all have inherently, but like any skill it can be improved through exercises and practice. It is just like training a muscle – instead we are training our attention to be where we want it to be.

Evidence is growing as to the many varied health benefits of mindfulness practice, such as:

• Increased ability to manage difficult situations, build emotional resilience and make wise choices.
• Enhanced physical and emotional wellbeing
• Deeper sleep, with reduced disturbances
• Increased capacity for memory
• Increased concentration
• Enhanced creativity
• Increased tolerance and relief from physical/mental/emotional pain
• Improved listening skills
• Reduced anger
• Improved mental clarity and focus
• Reduced emotional reactivity

Mindfulness is an invaluable tool when facing high stress situations and relations in your daily life and in your workplace.

Course details

This workshop is designed to give you an introduction to mindfulness theory and practice and a thorough understanding of what contemporary mindfulness practice is, allowing you to progress at your own pace. It will help you understand how the practice leads to real and sustainable change, how these changes come about and how you can incorporate a mindfulness practice in your own life.

Topics covered during the workshop will include:

• Origins of mindfulness
• Understand what is meant by mindfulness
• Scientific research and evidence
• Understanding of benefits
• Experience of mindfulness practice
• Introduction to the skills of mindfulness, concentration and relaxation
• Learn how to use mindful breathing as a tool for relaxation and being in the present moment.
• Range of techniques for relaxing the body, calming the mind and living more fully in the present moment
• Putting into practice
• Learn the key elements of practicing mindfulness on a daily basis
• Practical tips for practising mindfulness
• Develop mindfulness triggers
• Dealing with difficulties that arise in practising
• You will learn new ways to handle challenging emotions, physical sensations and moods.

By the end of workshop, you will know, through your own experience as well as exposure to the research evidence the benefits that mindfulness could offer you personally. Most importantly, you will have the practical tools to incorporate mindfulness into your everyday life.

Who Can Attend?

Open to all. No prior experience is necessary. This is the perfect workshop for those who are interested in exploring what mindfulness is and how to start practicing it. It is especially useful for anyone who is looking for ways to address stress and daily anxiety or who wants to be more present, less reactive, and more open in their life

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Duration: 3 hours

Course fees include:
~ All class tuition
~ A comprehensive course manual
~ An MSCM Certificate of Attendance for your professional portfolio
~ 3 cpd points
~ A complimentary pack of worksheets, exercises and tips

Mindfulness practice has powerful implications for our complementary therapy treatments enabling us to slow down and be present, calm busy minds and relax tense bodies, be non-judgemental and compassionate with clear professional boundaries and intentions.

Beyond the obvious health benefits, mindfulness practice creates conditions for treatments that go way beyond the ordinary. Those conditions pave the way for creating a cooperative and highly effective healing relationship with your clients.

Through an intention and desire to pay attention, mindfulness practice trains you to be aware of what’s happening in the present moment, you will be more connected with how your client is feeling and how they are reacting to the treatment. The simple act of drawing your attention to what is really going on can produce far more results than technique administered with no awareness. This is further enhanced by encouraging your clients to be mindful during the session.

The body/mind connection is a powerful doorway to well-being. By offering a safe, sacred, and confidential space for your clients your mindful approach to treatments will project warmth, caring and openness and will enable you to work deeper with intention and focus. This in turn will offer your clients the opportunity to touch the restorative power within as they unwind their busy minds, escape the pace of everyday life and emerge feeling focused, with a sense of renewed positivity.

Course Details

This hands-on workshop explores how we can use mindfulness techniques to create intention, focus and improved connection for more powerful and truly special treatments as well as empowering clients with effective everyday relaxation tools and techniques.

During the workshop we will cover the following topics:

• A mindful treatment room – setting the scene
• A mindful consultation
• Mindful observation and listening
• Grounding/protection and clearing – creative techniques helping to centre and balance yourself and your clients
• Creative Visualisation techniques
• Breathing Exercises and how to use in the treatment room
• Mindfully introduce your touch
• A mindful treatment
• How to introduce mindfulness to clients
• Mindfulness tips and guidelines as self-help for clients after the session
• Resources to help you take your understanding and practice further
• Mindful self-care techniques for yourself as a therapist

Who Can Attend?

This workshop is for therapists of any discipline who wish to make their treatments more special by working mindfully. To attend you must have completed the MSCM Introduction to Mindfulness course or similar Mindfulness training elsewhere as a good understanding of mindfulness is a pre-requisite.

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Duration: 3 hours

Course fees include:

• All class tuition
• A comprehensive course manual
• An MSCM certificate of attendance for your professional portfolio
• 3 cpd points
• A complimentary pack of worksheets, exercises and tips to us with clients

Ear Candling is a pleasant and non-invasive treatment of the ears, used to treat a variety of conditions and designed to be a natural alternative to syringing. Many people suffer from excessive earwax, clogged ears, ‘glue ear’, ear ache, snoring, sinusitis, headaches, migraines, sore throats, irritation in the ear, rhinitis, catarrh and all the associated side effects that these may bring. Few people, however, are aware that there is a wonderful, painless, soothing, cleansing treatment available, the effects of which are deep and long lasting.

Using natural candles made according to the traditional Hopi Indian recipe, the ingredients include pure beeswax, precious honey extracts and organic linen. These are combined with powdered Indian medicinal herbs, such as Sage, St. John`s Wort and Chamomile, well known for their healing properties. These ear candles induce a revitalising heat upon the head and ears, which soothes, relieves and relaxes.

This wonderful, gentle and natural therapy will enhance your existing practice, enabling you to offer clients additional treatments, which have immediate beneficial effects. This is a particularly useful therapy to use alongside Indian Head Massage.

Course Details

This course is only open to qualified therapists. It covers everything you need to know in order for you to safely and professionally conduct a therapy session in Ear Candling. You will also learn a special face and neck massage, which enhances the effects of the Candles.

The course content will include:-

• History of Hopi ear candles
• Structure and functions of the ear
• Common diseases of the ear
• Ingredients of Biosun Hopi ear candles
• How ear candles work
• Benefits of ear candling
• Results of the burning of the Hopi ear candles
• The appearance and meaning of the debris in the opened candle after it has been burned
• Ear candling technique
• Safety instructions
• Storage instructions
• Suggested items needed for a treatment session
• Contraindications to treatment
• Massage routine
• Face and neck sequence
• Treatment record sheet
• After care instructions
• Professional conduct

The intention is to train you, a practitioner already experienced in other complementary therapies, in the techniques and science of Ear Candling. You will learn which conditions are suitable for treatment and any contra-indications.

Who Can Attend?

This workshop is open to qualified therapists

Recognition by Professional Associations:

Validated by IPTI – (Independent Professional Therapists International) and widely accepted by most Professional Bodies

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The course will be largely practical in content and students will be required to wear appropriate workwear for the duration of the course. During the practical sessions you will practise on each under supervision of the tutor who will offer guidance and feedback.

Course Fee Includes:
~  All class tuition
~  A comprehensive course manual
~  An MSCM Certificate of attendance for your professional portfolio
~  5 cpd points
~ Candles will be provided for your use during the practical sessions

Duration: 1 day

We cannot find the right words to say how honoured and fortunate we are for Carla Vescovi, of Aromaluz in Brazil, to have chosen MSCM to host this unique, extraordinary and special workshop in the UK. It is an incredible opportunity for UK Aromatherapists to experience the inspiring and nurturing teachings of one of the finest internationally renowned educators in the aromatherapy world.

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The childhood is an important part of our lives and we sometimes don’t remember traumatic happenings. All of us are affected by the past. When we become adults suddenly it seems as if our lives do not flow anymore; we wake up unhappy, we have depression, our relationships don’t fulfil us. Many times this is related to traumatic memories we experienced when we were children. A well-documented feature of trauma is our inability to articulate what happens to us.

How we arrived in our family, how we felt welcomed by our parents, our deep relationship with them and even the trauma which our parents and grandparents have experienced can interfere adversely in our lives.

One of the longest scientific study done about human beings at Harvard University during 35 years has demonstrated that the quality of our relationship with our parents can affect our health in later life. Ninety-one percent of participants who stated that their relationship with their mother was tolerable or strained were diagnosed with a significant health issue such as cancer, coronary artery disease, hypertension, etc. If the participants had a strained relationship with both parents, the results were startling: 100% had significant health issues. So how we look at our parents, the way we arrived here on this planet, can change our lives.

Course Details

Traumatic experiences can profoundly affect peoples’ lives. To deal and talk about them in therapy and with therapists can be very difficult and painful. In this workshop, Carla will be presenting the results of more than eight years of research and clinical care handling with release of traumatic memories across different age groups and genders. This pioneering work is conducted with very dilute essential oils, is gentle and non-invasive since the patient doesn’t have to relive/re-experience the pain to obtain release. The results of this approach are remarkable; life flows more easily and softly in all aspects (relationship, career, financial and others). In the class we join concepts of Anthroposophy (Rudolf Steiner), Family Constellations (Bert Hellinger and others) and Aromatherapy and the following subject areas will be discussed and experienced:

• How to work and heal your inner child
• Dilutions, use and applications
• Formulations to work with mother and feminine issues and father and masculine issues. (It’s important to say that it doesn’t matter if the parents are still alive or if the person is adopted.)
• How to treat any kind of abuse
• Transgenerational trauma
• Victims of world’s traumas as Holocaust, Wars and epigenetic tags
• Formulation to support the daily work
• Formulation to rescue happiness and joy
• Systemic exercises to amplify our point of view about our parents and family

Profound – Powerful and Pioneering

This workshop has been held in many cities in Brazil and in other countries as well, in Serbia, Lebanon, Colombia, England. It’s an evidence-based workshop, supported by many scientific studies as well, developed after many years of intensive work with traumatized people. People report that after some months using these Aromatherapy formulations and after the exercises life has completely changed, it’s really incredible.

Who Can Attend

This course is open to all. For aromatherapists it is ideal to support you with your work with those affected to any degree by family trauma and also for personal benefit.

Qualification Recognition by Professional Associations

Validated by IPTI – (Independent Professional Therapists International) and widely accepted by most Professional Bodies.

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Duration: 2 days (12noon until 6.00pm on the first day and 10.00am until 5.00pm on the second)

Please note – this is running on a Friday Bank Holiday and the next day – it has been scheduled this way so that attendees in fulltime jobs do not have to take up a day’s leave to attend

Course fees include:
~ All class tuition
~ A comprehensive course manual
~ An MSCM Certificate of Attendance for your professional portfolio
~ 10 cpd points

About the Tutor

Carla S. Vescovi has been working with clinical and holistic aromatherapy and has also been working as an aromatherapy educator in Campinas, Brazil for the past 12 years. She is the founder of Aromaluz, a school of Aromatherapy that offers many courses from basic to advanced and workshops with national and international speakers. For many years, Carla has been researching the effect of very diluted essential oils, especially to release and heal traumatic memories. More recently, she has been working with children and teenagers at Hogares Claret Foundation in Colombia, an institution that offers therapeutic support for those who were affected by marginality, violence or the use of psychoactive substances. In this workshop she will share how essential oils are very important tools to bring people back to life and love. Her work with trauma has been well-known in the last years; she has had the opportunity to share part of her work at Botanica2018 and in some conferences in Brazil as well.

Although open to all, it is of particular relevance to practitioners or students with little or no previous First Aid knowledge. It should be a crucial part of all our training and yet is sadly overlooked by most examination boards and awarding bodies.

It is likely that First Aid will soon become compulsory for therapists in order to obtain valid insurance. This has already been implemented by some insurance companies and professional associations and is likely to be mandatory with all in the near future.

Course details

This one-day Emergency First Aid course may be taken at any stage in your training.

Designed and led by a practising therapist and first aid tutor, the course will include:

• Managing incidents
• Priorities of first aid
• Resuscitation
• Control of bleeding
• Treatment of unconscious casualty
• First aid equipment
• Communication & delegation in an emergency
• Aspects of first aid particularly relevant to the group

The content of the day has been tailored to suit complementary practitioners and will cover scenarios likely to be encountered within your practise, making it a unique yet recognised First Aid Qualification.

Upon successful completion of the day’s training, students will receive a First Aid Certificate entitled Emergency First Aid at Work. This will be valid for 3 years.

Who Can Attend?

This workshop is open to anyone.

Recognition by Professional Associations

Validated by IPTI – (Independent Professional Therapists International) and widely accepted by most Professional Bodies

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Duration:  1 day

Course fees include:
~ All class tuition
~ A comprehensive course manual
~ A recognised First Aid Certificate valid for 3 years
~ 5 cpd points