Articles tagged with: Mindfulness
FREE Mental Health Courses – February & March 2026
Are you interested in learning more about mental health or finding practical ways to support your wellbeing?
AWARE NI is offering a range of FREE mental health education courses taking place across February and March 2026.
Our mental health courses support individuals, parents and carers across...
FREE Mental Health Courses – December 2025 & January 2026
Thinking about learning more about mental health and how you can best support your wellbeing? AWARE NI is running a number of FREE mental health education courses this December 2025 and January 2026.
Whether you're someone looking to learn more about mental health, or a parent or teacher seeking...
FREE Mental Health Courses – October 2025
This October, AWARE NI is running mental health education courses - designed to help you boost your wellbeing, learn new skills, and feel more confident in everyday life.
Whether you're someone looking to learn more about mental health, or a parent or teacher seeking to incorporate mindfulness...
Holding Space and the Connection with Mindfulness
You may be wondering how the viral meme holding space connects with mindfulness practice - let's explore together!
The phrase holding space has become a viral sensation after Tracy Gilchrist used the term during an interview with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo as part of the Wicked Press Tour....
AWARE's top five home-schooling tips
Is this your first week home-schooling the little ones? We know this can cause feelings of uncertainty and may put a strain on your mental health, so we want to give you our top five tips on home-schooling...
1. Don’t Stress
It’s easier said than done but this is so important, especially,...
Fairhill Launches Employee Wellbeing Initiative with support from AWARE
FAIRHILL Shopping Centre in Ballymena has launched a new Employee Wellbeing Initiative, promoting positive mental health to all traders and employees within the centre.
With an increasing focus being placed on overall wellbeing, Fairhill is setting the standards in employee welfare, with a...
Children's Mental Health Week 2020 - Find your Brave
Monday 3rd February marks the beginning of Children’s Mental Health Week 2020. The week was set up in 2015 by children’s mental health charity, Place2Be and highlights the importance of children and young peoples’ mental health. According to official NHS figures, nearly 13% of children aged...
AWARE to take part of Bangor Cares week 23-29 September 2019
AWARE is thrilled to be taking part of Bangor Cares week for healthy heads, heart and community.
AWARE is hosting a public talk, as part of this weeks events, on Wednesday 25th at 6.30pm in the Aurora Leisure Complex on 'Let's talk about depression and your mental health. It is free to...
Record-breaking donation to AWARE from The Bar of Northern Ireland!
We are so overwhelmed and thankful to the Bar for choosing AWARE as their charity partner this year and raising an incredible £82,500, the most they have ever raised before! This was an amazing way to mark Mental Health Awareness week for us and will help us a great deal in supporting those who...
Beat the January blues with these helpful tips
Christmas is over and so is the excitement that comes with it. The decorations are down and for many it’s time to go back to school or work. The January blues are usually a result of the cold, dark weather and the fact that we often overindulge in luxurious foods over Christmas which results in...
AWARE celebrate their second Mindfulness Day
AWARE is the national depression charity for Northern Ireland. On November 10, AWARE celebrated their annual Mindfulness day to encourage people to place a greater importance on their mental health by using the practice of Mindfulness on a daily basis. The AWARE Mindfulness Day took place in the...
Register for the Mood Matters Parent & Baby programme
AWARE is delighted to be bringing the brand new Mood Matters Parent & Baby programme free of charge to the public on Wednesday 7 September in the Belfast Offices of AWARE.
The Mood Matters Parent and Baby programmes places a strong emphasis on looking after the mental health of both the...
AWARE brings Summer Mindfulness to the people of Newry
AWARE is hosting a 2 hour Mindfulness workshop at the Sean Holywood Arts Centre in Newry. The workshop taking place on Thursday 16th June from 7pm – 9pm will aim to give people a better understanding of what Mindfulness is.
Participants will explore the ancient technique which is proven...
1 in 6 people in Northern Ireland are using anti-depressant medication
Statistics sought from the Health Minister show that a staggering 300,000 people in Northern Ireland have been prescribed antidepressant medication from their GP during 2014/15. More surprisingly however is that 500 of those people are aged under 15.
Mental health charity, AWARE is the only...
Training tips for Malin to Mizen
This summer brave fundraisers will be cycling the full length of Ireland to raise money to help people affected by depression.
AWARE’s 416-mile Malin to Mizen cycle challenge (www.aware-ni.org/malintomizen) is open to anyone with a basic level of fitness – you don’t have to be an...
AWARE launches first Mindfulness Day for Northern Ireland
Leading depression and mental health charity AWARE has launched Northern Ireland’s first Mindfulness Day and is encouraging us to be more mindful of each other, especially on November 10 from today onwards.
The event saw a range of people from the third sector and the business...
AWARE launching their Annual Mindfulness Day
We are launching our Annual Mindfulness Day on Tuesday 10 November at the Stormont Hotel and are inviting all our supporters to attend.
The event will explore the benefits of Mindfulness from a participants point of view as well as hearing all about Mindfulness from our expert...
