Really looking forward to the collaboration with Mind Body Spirit for tonight’s webinar. Inspired by the work of Smallwood and Hasenkamp the webinar will present a neurocognitive model of mindfulness. The intention in sharing this model is to talk you through what happens in your brain and mind in a […]
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Preparing for the next round of teaching of Mindfulness and Resilience at King’s College London Medical School. An interesting article looking at the personality characteristics of medical students (highly perfectionist, competitive and conscientious!) but perhaps lacking the skills that will help them to stay healthy as they study and work. […]
Mind, Body, Movement and Play …. For those interested in the links between movement, creativity, theatre, mindfulness and mental health – this is a great event happening in London on 16th June. I will be demonstrating with a neurocognitive model (based on Hasenkamp’s work) how these practices have their therapeutic […]
Very happy to be teaching on the Mindfulness and Meditation course for http://www.aleftrust.org/. We start today! This is a great organization that wishes to blend the secular and spiritual aspects of mindfulness so that we can really understand what this training is about, its full potential, and provide a platform […]
Ever wondered how we can really innovate and bring mindfulness into the corporate and organizational settings? How can we get around the challenge of asking busy executives and leaders to take time out of their schedules in order to sit and practice mindfulness? Yes this would be great if […]
High excitment today as the book is out! A very long and strange journey I must say – much of it quite mindless but this is how we learn. You can order it here and I will also be doing a book signing at the Battle of Ideas 2015. Special […]
Happy to be working with Clod Ensemble’s Reboot program to explore the different ways in which we can re-wire our brains by paying attention in a mindful fashion. Getting insipiration from this video and also from some nice neuroscience videos showing how the brain connects and disconnects. This video has […]
Lots happening in South London in relation to mindfulness in Autumn 2014. The Dragon Cafe will be hosting an 11 week Body in Mind Mindfulness Training program led by Tamara Russell, commencing September 29th. These one hour sessions cover a short practice, a piece of theory about mindfulness training, some […]
A great workshop with teachers in Brazil who are already using mindfulness in the classroom or who are keen to try. We discussed the different models of mindful working schools and this group really grasped that first and foremost the mindfulness starts with the teacher. They were inspired by the […]