HeadRest Mindfulness Training
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Mindfulness Training in Sydney's Innerwest

HeadRest run mindfulness course for the community, schools, and workplaces. We run regular 8-week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction courses in Marrickville and offer follow up workshops and monthly practices to support graduates of these courses. We deliver workplace based courses and will travel to you. Our teacher's courses are accredited by BOSTES. Our MBSR courses are run by accredited mental health professionals.​
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Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
​Our gold-standard 8-week public course. This course integrates mindfulness training with information from neurospsychology to help integrate what you learn into daily life. MBSR s the course that much of the mindfulness research derives from. 

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Living Compassionately With Mindfulness
An annual 8-week course for MBSR grads running each February.

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Parenting Courses
We will run Circle of Security courses in your home and can run Mindful Parenting courses in community centres and schools.

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 Schools and teachers
  We have a 6-week BOSTES accredited teacher training program and a 2-hour BOSTES accredited introductory
  workshop. We can also teach mindfulness to your students and run a 6 or 8 week parents group.

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 Workplace training
  We offer a 6 week program and an introductory workshop. Speak to us if you would like to tailor a program to your
  needs.

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Course Dates
MBSR, compassion courses, quarterly 'Day of Mindfulness', monthly drop-in practices​

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Bookings & Contacts 
Book a course, call and find out more or submit an inquiry.


​About HeadRest
HeadRest was established by Tienne Simons in 2014.  Tienne is a counsellor and mental health social worker with over 20 years of clinical experience working with individuals, couples, and families. She has been a trainer or educator at Opengound, Relationships Australia, UNSW, UWS, UTS, Community Health Centres and in trauma focussed counselling services. Tienne began attending Mindfulness courses over 20 years ago and facilitating mindfulness courses in 2012. All HeadRest facilitators are MBSR trained. Most have additional tertiary degrees often as psychologists or teachers.​


Photography by Dominic Beckett, Marrickville
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