Dean Capon
Guided Meditations
Download and practice at home
These recordings are just for our work together and to support your personal practice at home. Please do not share them with anyone else. If a practice ever feels overwhelming, please stop, be compassionate to yourself, and we will explore this together in our next session.
Postures, Faces, and Voice Tones
Developing meditation stance(s), facial expression, and inner tone of voice that signals safety and warmth to the brain, helping to activate the body's soothing system.
Coming soonMindful Breathing
Involves paying non-judgmental attention to the natural flow of the breath, using it as an anchor to stay present and observe thoughts without getting caught up in them.
Coming soonCompassion Colour
Visualising a specific colour that represents compassion for you, imagining it flowing through your body to infuse it with qualities of wisdom, strength, and kindness.
Coming soonCompassion Flowing Out: Memory
Utilises a memory of a time you were kind or helpful to another to help you reconnect with your own capacity for compassion and caring intention.
Coming soonCompassionate Other – Compassion Flowing In
Visualizing an ideal, caring other (whether human, animal, or even a part of nature) that directs unconditional wisdom, courage, and commitment toward you.
Coming soonCompassionate Self (With Affirmations)
Uses supportive, intentional phrases (affirmations) to further strengthen your compassionate inner voice and provide direct, kind reassurance to parts of yourself that feel threatened or self-critical.
Coming soonSoothing Rhythm Breathing
Foundational exercise uses a specific, slowed-down breathing pace to balance the autonomic nervous system and create a physiological state of groundedness and calm.
Coming soonMindfulness of the Body
This exercise focuses on noticing different parts of the body and physical sensations with curiosity and kindness, helping to develop greater somatic awareness and emotional regulation.
Coming soonSafe Place Imagery
Creating a detailed mental image of an environment of safeness where you feel completely protected, supported, and at peace.
Coming soonCompassion Flowing In: Memory
Recalling a specific memory of receiving compassion or care from someone else to help you practice the often-challenging skill of allowing compassion in.
Coming soonCompassionate Self
Using your imagination to step into a version of yourself that embodies the qualities of wisdom, strength, and caring commitment, creating an internal 'secure base' from which to relate to your difficulties.
Coming soonRecommended Reading
Books to support your journey
Change & Transitions
Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes
William Bridges
Distinguishes between external change and internal transition, offering a three-stage roadmap to help individuals navigate significant life shifts.
What My Soul Told Me: A Practical Guide to Soul-Centred Leadership
Richard Barrett
Outlines a model for spiritual evolution, guiding readers to align their daily lives and leadership with the deeper purpose and values of their soul.
Compassion Focused Therapy
Mindful Compassion
Paul Gilbert and Choden
Blends evolutionary psychology with Buddhist practices to provide techniques for cultivating compassion as a powerful force for personal well-being.
The Compassionate Mind: A New Approach to Life's Challenges
Paul Gilbert
Provides practical mind-training exercises to help readers develop kindness and compassion to balance their emotional regulation systems.
Evolutionary psychology
Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
Randolph M. Nesse, MD
Applies evolutionary biology to mental ill-health, explaining that negative emotions like anxiety and depression are often useful biological adaptations designed for survival.
The Rational Animal: How Evolution Made Us Smarter Than We Think
Douglas T. Kenrick and Vladas Griskevicius
Explains how seemingly foolish human decisions are actually driven by "deeply rational" evolutionary goals managed by different sub-selves within our minds.
Healthy Habits
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Provides a practical framework for improving by 1% every day by focusing on small, incremental routines that compound over time.
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Susan Jeffers, Ph.D.
Provides practical tools to help individuals move from paralysis to action by teaching that fear is an inevitable part of growth that can be managed through self-confidence.
Just One Thing: How Simple Changes Can Transform Your Life
Dr. Michael Mosley
Identifies 30 simple, science-backed habits that can be easily integrated into daily life to improve physical and mental health.
Mindfulness & Meditation
How to Train a Happy Mind: A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Scott Snibbe
Grounded in modern science and Tibetan Buddhist wisdom, this book offers an 8-step program using analytical meditation to help individuals rewire their brains for contentment.
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World
Mark Williams and Danny Penman
Offers an eight-week programme of simple meditations designed to help people break the cycle of anxiety, stress, and mental exhaustion.
The Healing Power of the Breath
Richard P. Brown, MD and Patricia L. Gerbarg, MD
Provides solutions to stress and anxiety by teaching specific breathing techniques that activate the body's natural healing pathways.
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Jon Kabat-Zinn
This accessible introduction to mindfulness shows readers how to cultivate present-moment awareness to find peace and clarity amidst daily stress
Outdoor connection
Into the Forest: How Trees Can Help You Find Health and Happiness
Dr. Qing Li
Explores the Japanese practice of forest bathing (shinrin-yoku), providing scientific evidence on how spending time among trees can lower stress and boost the immune system.
The Healing Power of Trees: The Definitive Guide to Forest Bathing
Gary Evans and Olga Terebenina
Combines research with practical exercises to show how mindful connection with trees can lower stress and boost the immune system.
The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind
Isabel Hardman
Combining personal memoir with research, this book argues that engaging with the outdoors through activities like botany is a vital tool for managing mental illness.
Slowing down
The Art of Rest: How to Find Respite in the Modern Age
Claudia Hammond
Based on a global survey, this book explores the top ten activities for true relaxation and examines the psychological science behind why they are vital for well-being.
Spiritual growth
Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
Michael A. Singer
Provides guidance for moving beyond stuck thoughts and habits by teaching the spiritual art of non-resistance and surrender to the flow of life.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Drawing from his experiences in Nazi concentration camps, Frankl argues that the primary human drive is the discovery and pursuit of what we personally find meaningful.
The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler
Blending Eastern spiritual wisdom with Western psychology this shows how happiness can be achieved through systematic mind training and compassion.
The Road Less Travelled
M. Scott Peck
This seminal work argues that personal and spiritual growth is achieved by confronting and solving life's difficulties through discipline, love, and grace.
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer
Teaches readers how to achieve inner freedom by observing their thoughts and emotions objectively rather than being controlled by them.
Transactional Analysis
Counselling for Toads: A Psychological Adventure
Robert de Board
Using characters from The Wind in the Willows, this book explains the process of psychotherapy and Transactional Analysis as a depressed Toad attends sessions with a counsellor.
Games People Play: The Psychology of Human Relationships
Eric Berne
Introduces Transactional Analysis by identifying the unconscious social manoeuvres and "games" people can use to avoid intimacy or manipulate others.
I'm OK – You're OK
Thomas A. Harris
Building on Transactional Analysis, this guide outlines four psychological life positions to help readers achieve personal freedom by adopting a healthy, adult-to-adult mindset.
Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
Explains how trauma physically reshapes the brain and body and explores how innovative treatments like yoga and neurofeedback can foster true healing.
Holiday Dates
When I'll be unavailable for sessions
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