Mindful Works

Mindful Works Sharn Rocco (PhD) has extensive experience as a meditation and mindfulness practitioner, teacher and researcher.

Mindful Works offers mindfulness-based personal and professional development, courses, retreats, workshops and seminars – facilitated by Dr Sharn Rocco, in-person and online. Founded and facilitated by Dr Sharn Rocco, Mindful Works offers short courses, retreats, workshops, presentations and mentoring for bringing mindfulness to life by arrangement and invitation. She brings to her facilitation of Mindful Works courses and retreats skills honed during more than twenty years as a teacher educator and consultant. An acclaimed teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and calm abiding meditation, Sharn has taught numerous MBSR courses in New York, Forster, Taree, Townsville and Magnetic Island. For more than a decade she has offered calm abiding meditation courses as a community service. Sharn has led daylong and weekend mindfulness retreats in various locations in NSW and Queensland as well as in New York and Oslo. In 2014 she facilitated the first CARE for Teachers Retreat in Australia. Twice scholar-in-residence for the Garrison Institute NY, Sharn has given conference presentations and published theoretical, magazine and research articles about reflective practice, mindfulness in schools, teaching meditation to mental health workers, and meditation effects on staff and student wellbeing. Sharn brings to her teaching more than a decade of mindfulness and meditation practice supported by retreats and teachings with various renowned meditation masters in Australia, France and USA. Most notably, she has attended teachings with the Dalai Lama in Sydney, Melbourne and New York and with Vietnamese Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh at his monasteries in France and the United States and Mingyur Rinpoche in Germany and India. During her residencies at The Garrison Institute she received teachings from Chokyi Nyima and Tsoknyi Rinpoche; and participated in CARE (Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education) for Teachers facilitator training and Mindful School Curriculum and MindUp training. Courses offered:

Bringing Mindfulness to Life
A short course – 4 x 2 hour weekly workshops

Bringing Mindfulness to Life at Work
A short course – 4 x 2 or 2 x 4 or 1 x 8 hour workshops

Bringing Mindfulness to Life at School
A short course – 6 x 1.5 or 3 x 3 hour workshops

Bringing Mindfulness to Family Life
A short course – 6 x 1.5 or 3 x 3 hour workshops

Mindfulness in Daily Life Retreats
Daylong or Weekend

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
A short course – 8 x 2.5 hour weekly classes

Mentoring and Mindful Life Coaching
One-on-one or small group, face-to-face or Skype – time and duration negotiable

Three questions for living mindfully…
01/10/2025

Three questions for living mindfully…

30/09/2025

“So when Buddhists talk about emptiness as the basis of our being, we don’t mean that who or what we are is nothing, a zero, a point of view that can give way to a kind of cynicism. The actual teachings on emptiness imply an infinitely open space that allows for anything to appear, change, disappear, and reappear. The basic meaning of emptiness, in other words, is openness, or potential. At the basic level of our being, we are 'empty' of definable characteristics. We aren’t defined by our past, our present, or our thoughts and feelings about the future. We have the potential to experience anything. And anything can refer to thoughts, feelings, and physical sensations.”

- Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Yes! Mindfulness of speech starts with noticing how you speak about and to yourself…
06/09/2025

Yes! Mindfulness of speech starts with noticing how you speak about and to yourself…

22/08/2025

Find your bliss… Understanding… Loving… Forgiving… Being…

Be here… (if) you can…
19/08/2025

Be here… (if) you can…

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This from one of the first Tibetan lamas to come to the West. Chogyam Trungpa was the teacher of Pema Chodron and other ...
10/08/2025

This from one of the first Tibetan lamas to come to the West. Chogyam Trungpa was the teacher of Pema Chodron and other well known contemporary Buddhist meditation teachers. He was, and is, sometimes referred to as a 'crazy wisdom master'. My friend, Eileen Jones, a dedicated Dharma practitioner who, like Pema Chodron, met him during the height of the 1970s counter culture, and who sustained a deep respect for his teaching described him as a 'naughty lama who left an amazing legacy'. My introduction to Chogyam Trungpa was reading his biography 'Born in Tibet'. So inspired was I that I went on to read several of his books and remain deeply grateful for what I encountered and learned there.…

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Please give yourself a good time ~ Chögyam Trungpa
https://justdharma.org/please-give-yourself-a-good-time-chogyam-trungpa/

We have to learn to be kinder to ourselves, much more kind. Smile a lot, although nobody is watching you smile. Listen to your own brook, echoing yourself. You can do a good job. In the sitting practice of meditation, when you begin to be still, hundreds of thousands, millions, and billions of thoughts will go through your mind. But they just pass through, and only the worthy ones leave their eggs behind. We have to leave ourselves some time to be. You’re not going to see the Shambhala vision, you’re not even going to survive unless you leave yourself a minute to be, a minute to smile. Please give yourself a good time.

– Chögyam Trungpa

from the book "Great Eastern Sun: The Wisdom of Shambhala---https://www.shambhala.com/great-eastern-sun-663.html"

Chögyam Trungpa on the web:
http://www.shambhala.org
http://www.shambhala.com/oceanofdharma

Chögyam Trungpa biography:
https://shambhala.org/teachers/chogyam-trungpa/

Being your own best friend makes you a better friend all round…
09/08/2025

Being your own best friend makes you a better friend all round…

For teachers, parents, colleagues feeling overwhelmed and unsure of how you can meet each day, each person, each difficu...
02/08/2025

For teachers, parents, colleagues feeling overwhelmed and unsure of how you can meet each day, each person, each difficult situation with compassion… this is the 'take-away' message excerpted from an interview I was invited to record for a mindfulness in education conference while visiting Ljubljana…

dr. SHARN ROCCO, ustanoviteljica in spodbujevalka učenja, Mindful works, Avstralija.Sharn Rocco je izkušena izvajalka meditacije in čuječnosti, učiteljica, r...

Mindfulness of people pleasing… Is people pleasing a habit that serves you well? … What do you need to tolerate in order...
22/07/2025

Mindfulness of people pleasing… Is people pleasing a habit that serves you well? … What do you need to tolerate in order to say, ‘NO’?

‘Mindfulness for Music Lovers’ on the road sharing joy, gratitude and ease, breath by breath, heart to heart. This month...
03/03/2025

‘Mindfulness for Music Lovers’ on the road sharing joy, gratitude and ease, breath by breath, heart to heart. This month at fiddlers convention and Folk Festival. This precious life…

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