One Day Online Retreat
with Sarah Silverton
Join us online Saturday 21st June 2025, 10am – 3.30pm (UK time)
Be led by the wonderful Sarah Silverton on this nurturing one day retreat. Come together in community to create space, recharge and deepen your practice.
Sarah is co-creator of The Present Approach, an accessible, flexible programme that offers a trauma-sensitive, neurodiverse-accessible way to invite us to explore whether mindfulness might fit us, in our lives and, if so, to weave it in to our days.
The Present focuses on learning to be with our experiences mindfully, in daily life and through formal, meditation practice. It’s all about living well with being human.
This retreat is open to anyone who has participated in an approved 8-week mindfulness course. Please share with colleagues and friends!
The retreat is £20 for Hub members and £50 for non-Hub members.
About Sarah Silverton
Sarah Silverton’s professional background is as an Occupational Therapist working in mental health services in the NHS and in Social Services for more than 20 years. Sarah trained as a counsellor to master’s level. In the mid 1990’s Sarah was introduced to mindfulness and was trained by Mark Williams to teach mindfulness. Sarah also studied at the Centre for Mindfulness, Massachusetts in 1999 with Melissa Blacker, Jon Kabat-Zinn and Florence Meleo-Meyer amongst others. Other significant teachers have included Ferris Urbanowski, Pam Erdmann, David Rynick and Rebecca Crane.
Sarah was a member of the core teaching and training team at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University for ten years after it was established in 2001.
Sarah is a co-author of Paws b (with Tabitha Sawyer and Rhian Roxburgh, teachers at Ysgol Pen Y Bryn, Colwyn Bay and the Mindfulness in Schools Project team), and with Dusana Dorjee (neuroscientist). She was also co-author for. b Foundations.
She was a co-author (with Tabitha Sawyer and Dusana Dorjee) of The Present for Schools course (2018). She has also developed Living in The Present, a curriculum to introduce busy adults, in all walks of life, to the learning and support available through mindful awareness.
Sarah has a long-standing passion for movement practices and runs Mindful Movement retreats online and at Trigonos, North Wales. Sarah has published books and contributed to a number of academic papers.
About The Present Approach
The Present Approach is an accessible, flexible programme to introduce mindful awareness and attitudes to busy populations. The approach offers a trauma-sensitive, neurodiverse-accessible way to invite people to explore whether mindfulness might fit them in their lives. School teachers and children from two years old, medics and health professionals, people with Multiple Sclerosis and head injury, long standing mental health issues, parents and other busy people have accessed Living in The Present and been motivated to weave it into their lives. The approach focuses on learning to be with our experiences mindfully, in daily life and through formal, meditation practice. An approach about living well with being human.
Our thanks to Sarah for leading this retreat for us!