MiSP is a leading provider of mindfulness classroom curricula in the UK.
In 2009 MiSP was established as a not-for-profit company by Richard Burnett and Chris Cullen, school teachers and mindfulness practitioners, in the belief that the young people in their classrooms could benefit from learning mindfulness skills.
There were no classroom-based curricula teaching mindfulness skills available in the UK in 2009, so MiSP created .b (pronounced ‘dot-b’, which stands for stop and be) for 11-18 year olds. In 2013 came Paws b for 7-11 year olds, and in 2014 came .b Foundations. Developed as an accessible 8-week introduction to mindfulness for school staff and those working in education, .b Foundations allows schools to share an understanding of, and common language around, mindfulness practice. MiSP does not deliver these curricula directly themselves but provides training to adults to teach them to young people and adults (in the case of .b Foundations) in schools.
Most recently, .begin – a live, online 8-week introduction to mindfulness – has been developed for those who would otherwise be unable to access traditional 8-week group courses for adults due to school budgets, time, geographical or mobility issues.
With a total of over 4,100 teachers now trained in these curricula, MiSP continues to develop and grow the resources and training it offers as part of its charitable aim to bring mindfulness to young people and those who work with them.
Charitable Aims
In September 2016 MiSP became a charity with the vision that every child should possess the skills to help them manage difficulty and flourish, and an understanding of how and when to use those skills.
We aim to promote the teaching of mindfulness to young people by offering free support, advice, and information to schools, teachers, pupils and parents in the UK as well as the highest level of training in MiSP’s curricula. To take mindfulness to as many young people as possible we offer supported places on all MiSP training courses to schools who have above average numbers of pupils receiving Free School Meals. For more information please click here.