On Sunday 5th July a number of dedicated MiSP supporters undertook personal challenges to raise funds for our five year appeal ‘A Million Minds Matter’. This fundraising, which enables us to provide lifelong skills to children and young people, is more important than ever. In this often challenging and confusing world, we want children and […]
By Chivonne Preston Last Saturday I had the honour of making some closing remarks at our Teaching Mindfully conference. It is an interesting time to be leading a charity, with some significant challenges, and speaking at our conference gave me the opportunity to reflect on the times we find ourselves in, and what it might […]
We were delighted to welcome so many delegates to our maiden online conference on Saturday 20th June. Over 900 educators joined us throughout the day for a series of insightful and informative talks, presentations and case studies from our broad range of expert speakers. Punctuating the day with some short mindfulness practices, we also had […]
Tom Franklin founded and runs the City Kids Surfing charity which gives children from city schools the chance to ‘fall in love with the ocean and change their life for the better.’ In 2019 MiSP provided a supported place for Tom on the Teach Paws b course … this is his story: Mental health problems […]
By Claire Kelly On a recent one-day .breathe training course (one of the first of many courses MiSP has transferred to an online format), there were some really rich discussions around transitions. The main focus was on the challenges and opportunities for the 9-14 year-old age group, including the transition between primary and secondary school; […]
We are delighted to be sponsoring the upcoming MiSP Conference and to be part of such an important debate. We are looking forward to the discussions and practice around this year’s theme of Teaching Mindfully, as now more than ever, this feels like the right time to be encouraging wellbeing and mental health, and we […]
Many of you will remember Martha Wright of the award-winning charity Mindful Music speaking and playing the clarinet so beautifully at our A Million Minds Matter conference last year. Her team of talented musicians have now created some wonderful resources to support families and individuals of all ages during these times. In response to the […]
by Jem Shackleford The human body is amazing. And it’s even more amazing that it mostly looks after itself. Whenever we get out of balance (when we feel cold, hungry or need the loo and so on), the body knows how to ‘push’ us to rebalance, so we shiver, reach for a doughnut or head […]
Our supporter Caroline Wilson has a head of lovely thick hair. But not for much longer! She has persuaded her reluctant husband Graham to help her shave it all off at 11am on Friday 8th May 2020 to raise funds for our A Million Minds Matter appeal… As an adult mindfulness practitioner and trained mindfulness […]
by Caroline Wilson When MiSP launched ‘Sit Together’, I was keen to join in. It seemed like such a great initiative and, as a MiSP trustee, I wished to be as supportive as possible of both the initiative and the amazing MiSP team setting it all up. With my own regular mindfulness practice it also seemed it might be possible to make […]