The Centre for Western Mindfulness

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The Centre for Western Mindfulness

We help people expand their awareness and adopt mindfulness as a way of life, because that’s where freedom from suffering begins.

At the Centre for Western Mindfulness, we train and support people to become Western Mindfulness Mentors. These mentors use our client program, Pathways to Mindfulness (PTM), as a framework for helping their clients to understand what living mindfully looks like, and how to incorporate mindfulness as a way of life. Pathways to Mindfulness is a revolutionary approach to living a fulfilled life, free of exhaustion. It is a systematic structure designed to help people bring about the change they want to see in their lives, and have it be sustainable. By becoming free from their fears, stress and judgements they are able to live with more happiness, health and clarity. Clients who participate in PTM consistently report the following benefits from completing the program:

• Less exhaustion and improved health.
• A more consistent state of happiness.
• Feeling more engaged and fulfilled in life.
• More freedom to express their authentic self.
• Increased abundance.
• More focused and productive.
• More clarity of purpose and how to express it in their life. The founding principal of The Centre, Russell Sturgess, created PTM after dedicating 35 years of his life to the health industry and more than 25 years of research and development into spiritual practices and approaches to holistic health. Hundreds of people who have participated in our client programs have reported improved health, clarity, happiness and freedom from their suffering. Most importantly, they have found these changes to be sustainable!

08/01/2026

When we live from the story, we’re reacting to old wounds, not responding to the moment. Presence reconnects us to flow.

07/01/2026

When we’re trapped inside an ego-centred lens, we interpret everything through the narrow filter of our story. We project our fears, insecurities, and past wounds onto neutral situations and assume the world sees us the same way we see ourselves. But the distortion isn’t out there, it’s within the identity we’re clinging to. As our awareness expands beyond ego, we begin to see life as it truly is, not as our story insists it must be.

06/01/2026

How easy do you find it (or not) to not only step into the place of the observer, but to maintain that state of consciousness as you engage the world around you?

21/12/2025

Dr. Bruce Lipton explained that the function of the mind is to create coherence between our beliefs and our reality. So the question becomes: what self-image do you carry? What beliefs do you tell yourself about who you are based on the situations you’ve experienced?

17/12/2025

From a very young age, we learn to adapt to our environment. We rely on others for acceptance and basic needs, so we develop strategies to be “okay.” Over time, these strategies become habits, filters, and ways of navigating the world.

Each experience tends to get observed, labeled, and turned into a plan, how to get more of what we want, how to avoid what we don’t. Instead of experiencing life and letting it pass, we carry it with us, adding layers to the weight we bear.

Awareness is noticing experience without immediately adding meaning, judgment, or strategy. It doesn’t erase challenges or the lessons of life, but it changes how we relate to them. When we stop taking everything so personally and see the impermanent nature of experience, life can feel lighter, more spacious, and more free.

16/12/2025

A chasm is a profound gap between people, viewpoints, or inner experience. It is also the name of the 5-step framework we use in our Pathways to Mindfulness program to help people bridge the gap between a life largely governed by subconscious habits and one lived from conscious observation.

Why does that matter?

Because when we step back into the place of observation, we begin to loosen the grip of subconscious patterns and our suffering begins to soften. And from that space, peace naturally arises, followed by joy, love, and a deeper sense of happiness.

15/12/2025

How willing are you (or not) to surrender your position and simply observe?

05/12/2025

Founder and Principal, Russell Sturgess, teaching trainees about the childhood narrative.

Our Facilitator Training equips you with the knowledge, tools, and guidance towards presence to support others on their journey of self-discovery while transforming your own life in the process. To become a guide for transformation, you can find out more on his website: https://www.russellsturgess.com.au/ptm-facilitator-training

03/12/2025

Next time you find yourself in a disagreement, just pause for a moment and notice your thoughts. See how they’re clinging to your position, justifying why you’re right, judging what should be.

Notice how that clinging shows up in your body, the tension, the tightness, the frustration.

Peace is possible when we simply let go. Sometimes action may be needed, but it can come from a calmer, clearer place rather than from tension or compulsion. The mind may still want to insist on a certain outcome, but you don’t need to follow it. Just notice and return to presence.

Resistance to surrender arises from doubt that grace will provide. When that trust is weak, the mind clings to outcomes, seeks control, and struggles to let go.

01/12/2025

When you start noticing your thoughts and emotions instead of being ruled by them, something shifts. You feel the space between who you are and what you’re experiencing, and you realise you’re not the voice in your head.

This opens the door to a whole new way of living.

28/11/2025

Do you ever react without meaning to? How many times have you told yourself,

“Next time I won’t do that,”
or “Next time I’ll handle it differently”?

And how long did that change actually last?

Willpower alone rarely creates sustainable change. It’s a shift in consciousness that transforms how you meet the moment.

26/11/2025

At times people get caught in analysing their inner-child story. Understanding it is helpful, but trying to make sense of every tiny nuance of the narrative keeps you circling the same place. It keeps you in the past, instead of the present.

Becoming aware of the childhood narrative is simply a way to recognise when an old pattern is active now. Once you notice it, there’s nothing more to process, you stay in the position of the conscious observer rather than entering the story again.

It’s presence that creates healing.

Discovering the childhood narrative and learning how to step out from behind it is the essence of our signature program, Pathways to Mindfulness, and in Feb / Mar 2026 we will be offering this program, for the first time ever, as a small group experience (limited to 15 participants).

The full details of the experience will be available in the coming weeks, but for now, if you would like to remain informed, pop your details in the form below:

https://westernmindfulness.activehosted.com/f/65

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Maroochydore, QLD

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(07) 5475 4442

Website

http://www.westernmindfulness.com.au/

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