Introduction to Mindfulness – 8 Week Course, Live online training
Date: 23rd September – 11th November 2025
Time: 7 – 8.30 pm (Irish Standard Time)
Venue: Live Online
About this Course
This transformative learning experience is designed to help you manage stress, enhance well-being, and build inner calm through the structured, evidence-based practice of mindfulness.
This programme aims to help you develop mindfulness skills for everyday living, reducing stress, improving quality of life, and living with greater ease and less suffering.
Through mindfulness, we discover that it is our relationship to life’s moments and not the moments themselves that shape our path. Learn evidence-based skills to improve your relationship with yourself and the world around you.
This course is designed to guide you to a deeper awareness of your inner world, helping you meet yourself and others with greater compassion, understanding, and care. Through guided practice, reflection, and meaningful group connection, you’ll learn how to build a more grounded and nourishing way of relating to life.
Weekly Themes Include:
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- Foundations of mindful presence
- Discover the pleasure and power in being present
- Working skilfully with thoughts, emotions and reactive patterns
- Identifying your Stress Reaction Cycle & cultivating a healthy stress response
- Compassion and self-compassion in daily life
- Mindful communication with self and others, and relational presence
- Deepening inner wisdom and awareness through reflective practice
- Cultivating gratitude and joy in connection
- Endings, new beginnings and taking care of ourselves for life
The Benefits of this course
Others who have embarked on this learning experience have reported:
- Overall reduction in stress and increased calm
- Manage unwelcome thoughts and emotions effectively
- Improved sleep
- Reduced anxiety
- Increased self-management, especially when triggered by external events
- Increased emotional intelligence
- Growth in the ability to respond to internal and external stress, challenge and difficulty
- Reduced worry, catastrophizing and rumination
- Increased happiness, confidence and fulfilment in life and relationships
- Improved mood and zest for life
- A deeper sense of self and increased self-confidence
- Trust and acceptance, along with recognition of what one can and cannot control, enabling a profound sense of liberation and peace.
A Safe Space to Grow 
This course is live, interactive, and thoughtfully guided. You’ll be supported in real time by Hilary Connor, a highly experienced and certified mindfulness teacher.
Hilary is an MBSR Teacher (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction). She holds an MSc in Mindfulness-Based Wellbeing and is registered with the Mindfulness Teachers Association of Ireland (MTAI).
With over two decades of facilitating compassionate, trauma-sensitive spaces and mindfulness courses for the HSE, Department of Education, Cancer Support Charities, and corporate organisations, Hilary brings a warm, grounded presence to every session.
Whether you’re a mindfulness beginner or returning to practice, you’ll be in expert hands, met with care, clarity, and genuine understanding every step of the way.
What do I need to bring?
A good WIFI signal is required. Please bring a journal and pens to participate in reflective practice. All other course materials are provided, including 3 mindfulness meditation practices via MP3 and PDF Course Handbook to support your learning experience.
A Kind Invitation
You don’t need any meditation experience. All this course asks is that you arrive with a willingness to slow down and meet yourself with a little more compassion. Each week offers space to reconnect, reflect, and grow in a way that feels gentle, real, and human.
Interested in joining us?
Spaces are limited to ensure a safe and connected group.
Introduction to Mindfulness
| Duration | 8 weeks |
| Location | Online (over Zoom) |
| Time & Date | 7 – 8.30pm / 23rd September – 11th November |
| Investment | €225 / EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: €195 until 8th August 2025. |
| Facilitator | Hilary Connor, MSc., PG Cert., H Dip – Mindfulness Teacher, MBSR Teacher & Spiritual Wellbeing Coach |
What Past Participants Say
I Feel So Calm
I feel so calm. Before taking this mindfulness course, I would often react to what people said. Now, I know how to manage myself and my emotions. I’m able to take a step back and choose my response, allowing whatever is here to be here. This has been a great gift for which I am deeply grateful.
Marsha Wexford.
Improved Sleep
After six 6-weeks of mindfulness training, I am sleeping so much better. I used to lie awake for hours, night after night, worrying about the past and what might happen in the future. Now, I turn to mindfulness meditation, which helps me focus my mind in helpful ways. Each time. I drift off to sleep. I feel the benefits in my mood and energy levels the following day. Everyone should practice mindfulness.
Geraldine, Wicklow
Calm & Peaceful
I can now place a distance between myself and my thoughts and emotions. Before this course, I was consumed with worry. I was anxious about the future, and my fear used to run away with me. Now, I know how to create space so that the problematic thoughts and emotions don’t take over. I feel calm and peaceful. Mindfulness should be taught everywhere, to everyone.
Roisin, Wexford
Positive Shift In How I Respond To Stress
I thoroughly enjoyed this course — the people, the content, and especially Hilary’s calming presence and voice. I’ve been practising the skills we learned and can already feel a positive shift in how I respond to stress. This course has provided such valuable support during a time of change. My only wish is that it had lasted longer or continued somehow.
mary Walsh, Wexford.
A Safe & Supportive Space
Hilary’s classes were a joy to attend. She brings a deep well of knowledge and a warm, kind presence to her teaching. The space she created felt incredibly safe and supportive, allowing each of us to explore even the most challenging experiences with honesty and care. I truly enjoyed every moment of the course and would love to join more of her classes in the future.
Regina Power, Carlow.
Practical, Knowledgable & Kind
This course gave me practical tools to manage stress and be gentler with myself. Since starting the guided mindfulness meditations at night, my sleep has improved dramatically — and with that, my resilience and mood have too. Hilary is wise, knowledgeable and kind, creating a safe, welcoming space where everyone felt able to open up and explore even the challenging experiences. I truly enjoyed every moment and would love to take more classes with her.
Irene O’Reilly, Wexford
