Mindfulness in Schools Project
For the flourishing of young minds
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 […]
Early Intervention Foundation rates MiSP’s curriculum highly for efficacy and affordability. During this #childrensmentalhealthweek, which shines a spotlight on the importance of children and young people’s mental health, we are proud to announce that following a rigorous assessment process our curriculum, .b, has been awarded high ratings in the well-respected EIF Guidebook. The Early Intervention […]
How to get mindfulness onto your school timetable Effective implementation of mindfulness in schools needs planning and thought. One of the most important strategic decisions however is very simple: get mindfulness on the school timetable. Once it’s there, it can be routinely taught, week in, week out, term after term, and hundreds of children and […]
by Claire Kelly ‘Mindful’ and ‘mindfulness’ are rapidly becoming the words of the moment, a useful shorthand for ‘paying attention’ or even ‘relaxation’, but that isn’t what they mean, and it’s important to know why. As of August 2020, a simple Google search (from within the UK) for the term ‘mindfulness’ offers 268,000,000 results, indicating […]
MYRIAD involves a range of studies, including a seven-year randomised control trial and research project funded by the Wellcome Trust. It is investigating whether and how mindfulness training (MiSP’s .b) can be used to prevent depression and build resilience during early adolescence, to establish whether mindfulness can be an effective and cost-effective approach to promoting […]
Teaching is a challenging profession and work-related stress is a serious problem in schools. Whilst there is a large body of research on the mental and physical health benefits of mindfulness for adults generally, this 2015 study specifically investigates the impact of mindfulness on teachers in schools. Non-Randomised Feasibility Trial Assessing The Efficacy Of A […]
Research into the impacts of mindfulness programmes in schools has tended to focus on older children of secondary school age. There are, happily, a growing number of research projects investigating the impacts on younger, pre-adolescent, children of primary school age. We launched our curriculum for 7-11 year olds, Paws b, in 2013 and in 2015 […]
There have been a number of studies conducted to investigate the impact of our curriculum for 11-18 year olds, .b, on young people. One of the earliest was undertaken in 2013 to assess the acceptability of .b as a universal mindfulness intervention to enhance mental health and well-being in secondary schools. This was a non-randomised […]
This week we will dip in to some of the key research into mindfulness in education. The number of research projects investigating mindfulness has grown exponentially over the last decade, and there is now good evidence demonstrating its benefits and applications. In February 2018 Katherine Weare produced a meta-analysis of evidence – a summary document […]