Care: Finding your ground
Managing anxiety, overwhelm, stress and pain
When you're struggling, relief feels urgent. Our evidence-based courses offer real support. It takes just a little bit of effort, and you will notice more space opening up, symptoms becoming less dominating, and best of all, you will develop confidence about how to look after your mind and your emotions too. This is gold. With good help from your teacher and the course structure, you can feel yourself again.
Choose Your Starting Point
Not sure which path is right for you? New to mindfulness? MBSR is a great first step.
In-Person & Live-Online Course
MBSR: Eight Weeks Towards Feeling Better Physically and Mentally
This is for anyone caught in stress, anxiety or overwhelm and also with puzzling physical problems (like headaches, digestive problems, high blood pressure) who wants something practical and proven to work.
MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) offers a practical and evidence-based method for feeling better. With good help from your teacher, some dedicated practice, and the course structure, you will notice more space opening up, symptoms becoming less dominating, and best of all, you will develop confidence about how to look after your mind and your emotions too.
A participants story
Betty has lived with depression and anxiety since she was fifteen. She talks candidly about the particular fear of it returning - and what it meant to finally have a tool that helped her sit with difficult emotions rather than be overwhelmed by them.
Live-Online COurse
From Pain to Peace
This course speaks to anyone navigating persistent pain who's ready for something different: empowering knowledge and genuine relief.
Persistent pain can leave you feeling helpless. Join people who've found genuine support here – leading to meaningful change in their symptoms and in their lives. This course is evidence-based and integrates cutting-edge science with an empowering method to do what psychology and medications alone can't provide. Unlike anything you've tried before.
*Mindfulness training supports wellbeing and coping; it doesn't replace medical care.
Wondering if this course is right for you?
Dr Adele Stewart is a trusted GP, psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher who understands human beings. Down-to-earth and warm, she speaks directly to where you are at, with no-nonsense wisdom about what this work can offer when you're struggling with pain, trauma and uncertainty.
8-Week Live Online COURSE
Understanding Your Emotions
Developing Emotional Resilience and Stability
This eight-week course offers something rarely available: clear, compassionate education about the biological and psychological reality of emotions, and practical tools to transform your relationship with your inner experience. Whether you're struggling with anxiety, depression, or simply want to navigate life's challenges with more ease and authenticity, this course provides the foundational knowledge and embodied skills to befriend rather than fear your emotional world.
What you'll learn: This is good psycho-education (with just a little introductory mindfulness training) to support lifelong emotional well-being.
2-Hour Live Online Workshop
Releasing Rumination
Breaking Free from Obsessive Thought Patterns
Know that feeling of your mind running in circles? This workshop is for that.
When your mind runs in loops, you stay caught. This two-hour workshop reveals how habitual thinking works and offers immediate, practical tools for unhooking from rumination and overthinking. Especially valuable when overwhelm has you spinning.
What you'll learn: Immediate techniques to interrupt thought loops and find mental freedom.
2-Hour Live Online Workshop
Reset Your Nervous System
Simple Ways to Feel Better
Need some immediate tools for calming down and focussing?
Drawing on excellent research into how bodies and minds work at their best, you will learn some immediate skills in calming down, focussing, and self-regulation in this practical class. Best of all, you will feel better and have a good understanding of how your attention can be a powerful ally in changing how you feel.
What you'll learn: How to use attention as a tool for nervous system regulation.
Not sure which program is right for you?
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Ready to talk? Speak with a mindfulness teacher.
Contact a TeacherHave questions about which program suits your situation? Our teachers offer warm, knowledgeable guidance to help you find the right starting point. No pressure, just genuine care and deep listening.
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Led by Evidence – Informed by Research
See the EvidenceSceptical? Want to understand the science behind mindfulness for stress, anxiety, pain and overwhelm? Good. Here's the evidence.
Everything Openground does is informed by research, testing and evidence. Our research partnership with Melbourne University and our links to the leading international organisations support our commitment to evidence-based mindfulness education. -
Not Ready to Commit to a Course?
Try Free PracticesTry these accessible practices to discover what mindfulness feels like in your own experience – no course registration required.
What you'll find: Guided audio practices and introductory videos