Welcome! I'm so glad you have found your way here.

I guess you're curious about learning practices to support you or your workplace, community or sporting team, in cultivating mindful awareness, self-compassion or gratefulness. Qualities that support us to live this precious life, as well, full and flourishing as possible, in each of our unique circumstances.

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So, now that you are here, I'd like to introduce myself to you.

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And, as I tell you a bit about me, if anything I say sounds boastful, it is not my intention. You see, those who mentor me on the business side of things, tell me its important to let you know about my qualifications and some of my experience. Personally I'd be more comfortable leaving that all aside and simply sharing mindfulness, compassion and grateful living practices with you.

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My name is Karen Haddon. I'm an internationally qualified senior mindfulness, meditation, mindful self-compassion, gratefulness gatherings and yoga teacher. Each day, in some way, I practice mindful, compassionate, grateful, yogic living.

 

I practice and teach because I've personally experienced the profound benefits of living with these practices and qualities interwoven into the fabric of my life. They have helped me to ride the waves of immense suffering from personal tragedy's with grace.  Professionally, they allow me to be just as comfortable and authentic sitting in an intimate circle, surrounded by people who are struggling with deep personal suffering, holding safe space so that they can explore how mindfulness, self-compassion and grateful living can soothe their pain and allow them to live with more ease, as I am standing on a stage presenting to and engaging with a large corporate audience or hanging out in the depths of a sports stadium working with elite athletes.

 

My inspiration to teach evidence based programs and workshops, imbued with the qualities I have mentioned, comes from the transformations I feel privileged to see unfold, some subtle others profound, in those whose courageous hearts, sparked by hope of experiencing positive change, allow them to take the first steps into cultivating mindfulness, compassion and gratefulness. You can see what they've said here. The most incredible thing is that all I really do is sprinkle seeds, teach you how to plant them and support you in nourishing your new garden overtime, so that as each seed is ready, it sprouts new life and begins to flourish within you.

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Why might you consider taking a program or workshop with me?

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A good question! I would never be so bold or so brave as to teach mindfulness, compassion and grateful living without first taking comprehensive training in delivery of evidence based programs in this space. It is this training, and continuous professional development, that gives me the confidence to know that I am teaching in the most professional and safe way, for the people with whom I engage. The oath, "first do no harm" is profoundly important to me.

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Each of my offerings are strongly rooted in the evidence based programs in which I'm formally qualified, including: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR); Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT); Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC); MBSR for Teens; Mindful Schools (US); Mindfulness in Schools Project .B; Positive Neuroplasticity Professional Training; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy; Circle of Security Parenting (COS); Yoga Teacher Training (500hr); Gratefulness Gathering Host and Feng Shui, the ancient art of creating mindful spaces.

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Whether you choose to attend the formal Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction-Perth course with me to support your own wellbeing; an introductory workshop or comprehensive course in Living and Leading with G.R.A.C.E. to open to the possibilities that abound by intentionally cultivating gratefulness, resilience, awareness, compassion and empathy every day; or you send your teen along to MBSR-T; or engage me to work with your organisation to deliver mindfulness, compassion or gratefulness based training to enhance well-being and performance; whichever you choose, you will experience the true depths of transformation possible in live (in-person or online) mindfulness, compassion and positive wellbeing programs delivered by someone who has immersed herself in mindful, compassionate, grateful, positive living for over 23 years.

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I get to work with some great organisations.

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I offer programs independently and also support Australia’s top two mindfulness program providers, Openground Mindfulness Training and Smiling Mind, through facilitating courses and workshops on their behalf. In fact, I have delivered workshops both in-person and online to hundreds of organisations, ran programs with teachers from schools across the whole of Australia, from our major cities to remote locations like Alcoota in the NT and Norfolk Island. And I've successfully engaged two Grand Final winning elite sporting teams in mindfulness training. I'm often asked to share my knowledge at conferences and I have also been invited to write mindfulness materials for other providers.

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