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Good News Shared: Making Children’s Mental Health a Priority Today: Mindfulness in Schools Project Pledge to Reach One Million School Children Within Five Years

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 […]

The Guardian: ‘It stops the scary stuff’: pupils thrive with mindfulness lessons

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 […]

Highlights of our 2018 Conference: The Future of Mindfulness & Education

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 […]