Mindful Eating - Conscious Living is an eight-week mindfulness programme that will help you to establish a regular mindfulness practice, and help you to make better choices to manage your mood and stress levels.  The focus will be around learning how to be less anxious and more at ease around food and eating.  Through practicing paying attention to the present moment, without judgement, we can cultivate the capacity to tune into the physical experience of eating and how they relate to our moods and emotions.  In time, we can regain our natural freedom around food.

About the Course Tutor

Christine Ramsey-Wade is a chartered and registered counselling psychologist. She has had a personal meditation practice for many years, and has undergone mindfulness teacher training with Bangor University.

Christine teaches mindfulness and mindful eating skills to clients in mental health settings and teaches mindfulness theory and practice to postgraduates at UWE Bristol. She follows the Good Practice Guidelines for Teaching Mindfulness-based Courses as set by the UK Network for Mindfulness-Based Teachers, and is a BAMBA registered Teacher for both Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). 

She has also completed the Mindful Eating-Conscious Living Level 1 and Level 2 Training with Jan Chozen Bays, MD and Char Wilkins, MSW, and is a certified Mindful Eating-Conscious Living teacher with the University of California San Diego.

Important:

This short course is appropriate for anyone over the age of 18 who is interested in mindfulness meditation or mindful eating. You need to be willing to practise the in-class exercises at home between sessions, to fully benefit from the programme.

Before applying, you are required to complete an Mindful Eating questionnaire (DOCX) available in the Download section.  This information is confidential and will only be seen by the course leader, to help provide you with the best learning experience possible.

Once you have completed the questionnaire, please save the document to your device. You will then be able to apply for the compulsory Orientation Session by using the Apply button at the top of this page.

Extra information

This course is fully online; please note that you are expected to provide your own device/headsets/microphones.

If you are interested in this course, you will be invited to attend an orientation session.

The orientation session is a chance to find out more about the course and ask any questions you may have.  It will also be an opportunity for you to experience a short practice in a small group environment, which can help you to assess whether this course is right for you at this time.  

Upon completion of your orientation session, you will be invited to formally register on the course and pay your course fees via the UWE Bristol Flywire System.  Attendance at the orientation session is a course requirement.

Supplementary fee information

Compulsory orientation sessions: Free.

For the full eight week course:

£250 - External delegates

£200 - UWE Bristol Alumni

£150 - UWE Bristol Staff

£100 - UWE Bristol postgraduate student

£50 - UWE Bristol undergraduate student

Dates for orientation sessions (you only need to attend one)

3 September 2026 - 13:00 to 14:30 

or

7 September 2026 - 10:30 to 12:00 

Full eight week course dates 

Week 1 - 21 September 2026, 16:00 to 18:30  

Week 2 - 28 September 2026, 16:00 to 18:30  

Week 3 - 5 October 2026, 16:00 to 18:30  

Week 4 - 12 October 2026, 16:00 to 18:30  

Week 5 - 19 October 2026, 16:00 to 18:30  

Week 6 - 26 October 2026, 16:00 to 18:30  

Half day - 31 October 2026, 10:30 to 14:30  

Week 7 - 2 November 2026, 16:00 to 18:30  

Week 8 - 9 November 2026, 16:00 to 18:30 

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