Mindfulness in Schools Project
For the flourishing of young minds
Mindfulness in Schools Project: How it all began 20th September 2023 – 7pm to 8pm UK time Watch the recording of this event here. For the first time since the inception of Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP) in 2009, we invite Chris Cullen and Richard Burnett, MiSP’s co-founders to share those early days – what […]
Supporting you as you develop your personal mindfulness practice The stage of development, following an eight week course, where you continue to develop your personal mindfulness practice, can feel a bit isolated if we don’t have other people around us who practice. It’s also a period of time where we might want to build on […]
Guest blog by Tim Anfield who is an associate trainer with the Mindfulness in Schools Project, a Mindfulness in Action trainer and founder of Mindful Families. “a passion to help make mindfulness accessible for more audiences…” I started teaching adult mindfulness in 2016, with a passion to help make mindfulness accessible for more audiences. The […]
Guest blog by Chris Alekkou, Primary School Teacher & Associate Trainer for MiSP “slowly, slowly, mindfulness will hopefully begin to help my colleagues in the same way it has helped me, and the practice and its approach might become a bigger part of school life.” I am one of those few lucky ones that knew, […]
Mindfulness in Schools Project is delighted to have agreements with a small number of organisations to run our courses outside of the UK. We have worked closely with these international organisations to ensure that they are able to maintain the integrity and quality of our courses and that they have a suitably qualified, professional local […]
Thank you for engaging already! A massive THANK YOU to everyone who already engages with our social media channels by tagging us in their posts and through liking, sharing and engaging with our posts. This really helps get the word out about what MiSP offers and encourages new schools and teachers to consider mindfulness for […]
Guest blog by David Bignell, Associate Trainer for MiSP These are challenging times for everyone working in the public sector for reasons that everyone knows – can mindfulness help? My answer based on my personal experience of twenty years as a primary school headteacher is yes it can. Why? Well, we can’t control external events […]
Mindfulness in Schools Project is delighted to to have agreements with a small number of organisations to run our Teach .b and Teach Paws b courses outside of the UK. We have worked closely with these international organisations to ensure that they are able to maintain the integrity and quality of our courses and that they have a suitably […]
Thank you to all trained teachers who attended the MiSP MYRIAD reflections surgery on Wednesday 21st September 2022, at which MiSP’s Co-founder and Chair, Richard Burnett, shared some background. In response to feedback from attendees, here are some more of Richard’s reflections on the recently published findings from the MYRIAD project; a large randomised control […]
Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP) welcomes high-quality research into mindfulness in education settings, and we are grateful to the team at Oxford University that carried out the MYRIAD (MY Resilience In Adolescence) research and to the Wellcome Trust for generously funding it. Background to MiSP’s curriculum used in the research MiSP’s curriculum for 11-18 year […]