Learn meditation
Learn to meditate, properly
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), taught live online over eight weeks. It starts with a free intro session on Tuesday 20 October.
If you’ve always wanted to learn how to meditate properly, with a teacher and a structure rather than an app and good intentions, this is the course.
At the free intro on Tuesday 20 October (Monday 19 October in the US), I’ll explain how the course works and what you’d be signing up for, we’ll do a short practice together, and you can ask me anything. It’s open to everyone. Come along, and decide after that.
It started in a hospital basement
In 1979, a scientist named Jon Kabat-Zinn set up a course in the basement of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. His students were chronic pain patients, the people conventional medicine had run out of answers for. Nearly fifty years later, that course is the most researched mindfulness programme in the world. People who complete MBSR consistently report feeling less stressed and better able to handle pressure, with improvements in focus, sleep, mood and self-compassion. And they describe becoming less reactive: more able to pause and choose a response.
What you’ll have at the end
A daily meditation practice that stands on its own, with no app needed. The full toolkit: sitting meditation, the body scan, mindful movement, and bringing awareness into ordinary moments. A clearer view of your own stress patterns, where they start and what feeds them. And skills that don’t expire when the course ends. It has a beginning, a structure and a finish line. You do the work, and then you have it.
I’ve taught these tools to teams at companies like…
If you’re very good at holding everything together and not very good at switching off, this course is for you.
How it works
Live on Zoom, with me, for 1.5 to 2 hours per session.
I teach the MBSR curriculum, adapted for online. There’s no full-day silent retreat in this one.
Home practice between sessions. MBSR recommends 30 to 45 minutes a day, and if you can do that, wonderful. I know a lot of you are busy and running on empty, though, so here’s what I’ll ask: at least 10 minutes a day, and one longer practice of 30 to 45 minutes each week. I’ll give you the guided recordings for both.
The teaching and the guided practices are recorded, so you can catch up if you miss a week. Group discussions are never recorded.
What is the format?
Eight lessons, every Tuesday at 9am Sydney, which is Monday evening in the US. Lesson 1 is on 27 October and Lesson 8 on 15 December. If I need to skip a week, we finish on 22 December instead, and I’ll run the last lesson again in January for anyone who can’t make it.
Beginner Friendly
You don’t need any experience. The course starts from the beginning. It also suits people who used to meditate and want to get back to it.
Who should do it?
If you’ve tried the apps, and a quiet ten minutes mostly turns into a planning meeting in your head, you’re in the right place. MBSR is a course, not therapy. If you’re in the middle of a very hard time, or you’re being treated for a mental health condition, please have a word with whoever is looking after you before you sign up. You’re welcome to email me too.
What people are saying
“I have loved Chibs meditations for years. But they can’t hold a candle to having the opportunity to be coached live by him weekly. The lessons are so wonderful for someone like me who can carry the world on her shoulders and sometimes forget to take time for herself.”
Sidra
Tired & Wired member
“Today, you have cracked the nut for me that the past 5 years of executive coaching and 20 years of manager feedback has failed to deliver.”
Zara
Tired & Wired member
“I am not alone! I can safely share my innermost thoughts and not be judged.”
Carole
Tired & Wired member
Meditation Course pricing
Two ways to join the course
Tired & Wired membership
The one I'd suggest
The MBSR course is included in Tired & Wired, my membership community. Three months at USD 49 is USD 147, which covers the whole course, and you can cancel when it finishes.
Membership includes:
The live MBSR course
A live group call with me every week
My courses on stress, burnout and sleep
My entire meditation library
Free 7-day trial. The price goes up to USD 59 a month for new members on Wednesday 21 October. Join before then and you keep USD 49 for as long as you stay.
No subscription
Or pay once for the course
The MBSR course
Paid once
USD 250, paid once, with no subscription. You get the eight lessons live, plus the recordings until the end of January.
The course includes:
Eight live MBSR lessons with me on Zoom
Recordings of the teaching and guided practices
Guided recordings for your home practice
Access until 31 January
After you pay, you'll get your invite into the course space by email within one working day.
What do I need to know?
Anything else? Email hello@chibs.co, and I’ll get back to you.
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Each lesson is live on Zoom for 1.5 to 2 hours. I teach, we practise together, and there’s time to talk about how your week’s practice went. Between lessons there’s home practice, with guided recordings to follow.
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The MBSR curriculum, adapted for online. I did my MBSR teacher training at the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School, where the course began. The one difference: there’s no full-day silent retreat in this online version.
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Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. Jon Kabat-Zinn created it in 1979 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and nearly fifty years later it’s the most researched mindfulness programme in the world. When you read a study about what mindfulness does, MBSR is usually the course behind it.
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The teaching and the guided practices are recorded, so you can catch up before the next one. Group discussions are never recorded.
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You’ll have a daily meditation practice that stands on its own, with no app needed, the full MBSR toolkit, and a clearer view of your own stress patterns: where they start and what feeds them.
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Yes, with the recordings. But you’d miss the live discussion, which is a real part of the course. I’m planning to repeat the course in the new year at a Europe-friendly time.
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No. The course starts from the beginning. It also suits people who used to meditate and want to get back to it.
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No. MBSR is a practical, evidence-based course.
Who’s the teacher?
Hey, I’m Chibs.
I’m a stress and burnout coach, a meditation instructor on the Calm app, and a qualified MBSR teacher. I did my MBSR teacher training at the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School, where the course began.