This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week focuses on mindfulness. What’s the connection between an ancient Buddhist practice and modern mental health needs? Thought for the Day 9/5/2015 In this election, for the first time, we heard calls from a mainstream...
I’d like to share news of a unique, project I’m involved in right now: The Mindfulness Initiative and the Mindfulness All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) in the UK parliament. I’m a Mindfulness Initiative Associate and part of a team editing APPG’s report called, A...
In the wake of Robin Williams’ suicide, we’re talking more about mental illness and distress. Here’s how mindfulness can help in working with difficult mental states Hearing the reflections around Robin Williams’ death, I wonder if we’re finally...
The Wellbeing Economics All Party Parliamentary Group in the UK’s Westminster parliament had a meeting discussing mindfulness on 9th April 2014. Here’s my report; you can see an ‘official’ write-up here. I have just attended a meeting at the...
The mindfulness movements show that, in our speedy, stressed out society ancient wisdom traditions are more relevant than ever The former Speaker, Bernard Weatherill once told a friend of mine that when the Commons was in uproar he groaned inwardly and then turned to...
Here is a clip of a news programme on PM, the BBC Radio 4 afternoon news programme describing the mindfulness courses that have been running in Westminster for MPs and Lords. Listen Now This is the first mainstream coverage of the courses I know of other than a blog...
