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So What's the Evidence?

We often read that mindfulness interventions are ‘evidence-based’ approaches. What does that mean? What's the evidence? The American...

The Happy Warrior in Asia

Special thanks to XPAN's Brian Ng, and Jerome and Joy Gonzalez who helped make the session happen. It was also good to meet Assistant...

Mindfulness with the Southern Health and Social Care Trust

It's an honour to work alongside the Southern Health and Social Care Trust. Here's a glimpse of our work as featured in the papers... The...

Four Years of Bringing Mindfulness to NI & Beyond

This is such a lovely week to celebrate our founding--4 October 2013! We are blessed to run three simultaneous 8-week Mindfulness courses...

Only Agenda-Less Mindfulness Works - JKZ

"Mindfulness only works when it's agenda-less. Mindfulness is a way of being, not a collection of techniques" Jon Kabat-Zinn reiterates....

Mindfulness in the Workplace - Does it work?

Mindfulness in the workplace is still in its infancy stage in the whole of the UK. Northern Ireland, being geographically detached to GB,...

UK Mindful Nation: A Year After

The Happy Warrior's Jason Gonzalez with the fathers of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT): Zindel Seagal, Mark Williams and John...

Mindfulness & Parenting in a Tech-Addicted World

Are we equipped to handle tech well? There's a growing concern about technology addiction among children and young people. We adults tend...

What Tech Does to You

What's Your Relationship with Technology? Is technology really addictive? What do you think? Honestly... I've been asked this question a...

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