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Watching The Mind: A Gentle Practice Of Awareness In Metacognition
With Mark RowlandThis five-day course invites you to develop a gentle awareness of how your mind works, moment by moment. Through short teachings and longer guided meditations, you’ll learn how to notice thoughts as they arise, recognise familiar mental patterns, and relate to your inner experience with greater ease. Rather than analysing or changing the mind, the focus is on cultivating awareness itself as a steady, supportive presence. Over the course of the week, this practice helps create space around thinking, supports emotional balance, and offers a more grounded way of meeting daily life. The intention is to help you rest more often in awareness, carrying this quality of noticing into everyday moments beyond the meditation itself.
A course for learning to notice thoughts without getting lost in them.
About this course
This five-day course invites you to develop a gentle awareness of how your mind works, moment by moment. Through short teachings and longer guided meditations, you’ll learn how to notice thoughts as they arise, recognise familiar mental patterns, and relate to your inner experience with greater ease. Rather than analysing or changing the mind, the focus is on cultivating awareness itself as a steady, supportive presence. Over the course of the week, this practice helps create space around thinking, supports emotional balance, and offers a more grounded way of meeting daily life. The intention is to help you rest more often in awareness, carrying this quality of noticing into everyday moments beyond the meditation itself.
Meet your Teacher
Mark Rowland is a meditation teacher and sound practitioner who guides reflective, awareness-based practices on Insight Timer. His teaching focuses on developing a kind, steady relationship with the mind through simple, accessible meditation. Drawing on mindfulness, awareness practices, and lived experience, Mark offers grounded guidance that supports emotional balance and inner clarity. His courses are designed to help people feel more at ease with their thoughts and to bring a sense of spacious awareness into everyday life.