The Mindfulness in Schools Project community is coming together to mark Children’s Mental Health Week 2019 and to raise awareness of the need for young people to develop skills to support their own wellbeing, both inside and out. We are inviting teachers and students from primary and secondary schools all over the world who have […]
Tonbridge School has been teaching mindfulness for many years now, through the Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP). As far as I am aware we were the first to put it on the curriculum for all pupils in year 10, an event covered by press, TV and radio in early 2010. Since then it has slowly but surely […]
Teachers are now reaching the end of what is often considered to be the most exhausting term of the academic year. At this time of year, along with dark days, end of term reports, concerts and classroom tidies, many will also have the familiar experience of end of term illness. Talk about kicking someone while […]
Friday, 26th April Friends House, 173-177 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BJ Join us at our annual conference to help us raise funds for our A Million Minds Matter campaign. You will hear from a panel of expert speakers, headlined by Ruby Wax, who will appeal to anyone wishing to broaden their knowledge and understanding of […]
The charity’s ‘A Million Minds Matter’ campaign aims to enable 1 million school children to access high quality mindfulness training for less than £5 per child by the end of the campaign. A Million Minds Matter has been launched in-line with ‘Self-Care Week’, as mindfulness is seen as a “lifelong toolkit for adults and children”. […]
Did you know that 50% of those with lifetime mental illness experience symptoms by the age of 14? There is overwhelming evidence to suggest the urgency of finding preventative measures to counteract the growing scale of this problem. This is something Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP) is working to do. The charity, which provides mindfulness […]
English Martyrs Catholic primary school in Litherland is a stone’s throw from one of Merseyside’s most notorious areas for gangs and gun crime, and most children at the school have been affected by the violence. It is an unlikely place, perhaps, to find a thriving mindfulness teaching programme. But English Martyrs is one of a […]
The charity’s ‘A Million Minds Matter’ campaign aims to enable 1 million school children to access high-quality mindfulness training for less than £5 per child by the end of the campaign. A Million Minds Matter has been launched in-line with ‘Self-Care Week’, as mindfulness is seen as a “lifelong toolkit for adults and children”. Full […]
View highlights from our hugely successful 2018 Conference that took place in London in June, where we invited leading figures to reflect on what the future holds and offer practical ‘next steps’ for those in educational or mental health contexts. Speakers included: Jon Kabat-Zinn, founding father of the contemporary mindfulness movement, who lead a […]