Calm Your Mind
A calmer, kinder mind, one small action at a time.
These days we can all feel like we need a bit more room to breathe. Most of us are busier than we've ever been, with more coming at us than ever before and less space to deal with it. Very few of us were ever taught what to do about that.
A rich programme of practical actions you can take that really do make a difference, running from September to November 2026.
We turn expertise into practical action
For Calm Your Mind we've worked with three experts on anxiety, self-kindness and emotions, and studied their published work closely to pull out the actions the evidence shows most likely to bring about positive change.
From September to November, a new action lands each week for you to try in your own life. Each one takes minutes, and how deep you go is up to you.
So what kinds of action will you be taking?
Breathing exercises, meditations and visualisations that the evidence shows are accessible and effective.
Ways of framing and relating to our thoughts that can genuinely change how much weight they carry.
Journaling and reflective exercises designed to turn up real insight about your own life.
Tools, systems and support you can carry with you long after November.
One programme, three core modules
Each module runs through a month and has the same shape: a small action to try each week, a masterclass, and a session with your group. All designed as a comprehensive package to get you applying, not just receiving expertise.
You'll learn about: how anxiety works in the body, and simple ways to settle it - breathing, grounding, meditation.
You'll leave with: a few practices you trust, and a steadier way of meeting the worry when it turns up.
- In your own time: Week 01ActionLive sessions: Introductory call
- In your own time: Week 02ActionLive sessions: Masterclass with Sian
- In your own time: Week 03ActionLive sessions: Group session 1
- In your own time: Week 04Action
You'll learn about: the harsh voice most of us use on ourselves, and how to practise a fairer one.
You'll leave with: a kinder way of talking to yourself, and habits that are more likely to last because of it.
- In your own time: Week 05Action
- In your own time: Week 06ActionLive sessions: Masterclass with Shahroo
- In your own time: Week 07ActionLive sessions: Group session 2
- In your own time: Week 08Action
You'll learn about: what our feelings are telling us, and the levers that shift them - what you do, where you are, who you're with.
You'll leave with: the shifts that work for you, and a sense of when to reach for them.
- In your own time: Week 09Action
- In your own time: Week 10ActionLive sessions: Masterclass with Ethan
- In your own time: Week 11ActionLive sessions: Group session 3
- In your own time: Week 12ActionLive sessions: Wrap-up call
One sign-up covers all three modules. September to November, with the same group of people from the first month to the last.
Join the programmeThree people who've lived the thing they teach
Each gives a masterclass in their area: a live online session, recorded, so you can watch it later if the time doesn't work for you. There's nothing to book separately - it comes to you with the rest of the programme.
A broadcaster who retrained as a counselling psychologist and works with emergency-service staff. She's lived with anxiety throughout her career and doesn't expect to be rid of it. Her work is about stopping the fight with it, and the month begins by settling the body before it asks you to think differently about anything.
Author of The Power of Anxiety: How to Ride the Worry Wave
A behaviour-change specialist who trained in NHS services and used her own method on herself. Her work suggests change is more likely to last when we treat ourselves the way we'd treat someone we love, because being harsh with yourself tends to make you defensive and quick to give up.
Author of The Kindness Method: Changing Habits for Good
A psychologist and neuroscientist who studies how people manage their emotions. His starting point is that our feelings carry information, including the painful ones, and that moving between them is a skill we can learn, and one that gets easier with practice.
Author of Shift: Managing Your Emotions So They Don't Manage You
You won't be doing this on your own
The same group, September to November. Around 20 people, held by a pair of trained volunteers, online for 90 minutes once a month.
You hear what people actually tried. What worked, what didn't, and how much of your own experience other people recognise.
We're looking for people who'll show up. Come intending to make every group session and to take the action most weeks. Some weeks will get away from you, and that's expected.
Calmer minds for a happier world
We're doing this because we'd like there to be more calm about, not just in the people on the programme. How you handle a hard morning tends to change the mornings of the people you live and work with, and that's the part that travels on its own.
Your own steadier mind is a small piece of something much bigger we're building: a movement of people taking practical action for a happier, kinder society.
Ready to give your mind more room?
September to November. An action to practise each week, a masterclass from the expert whose work it draws on, and a group of people doing it alongside you.