Implementing Mindfulness in Schools: An Evidence-Based Guide - Mindful Workplace Community

Implementing Mindfulness in Schools: An Evidence-Based Guide

This publication from The Mindfulness Initiative’s education team is a comprehensive guide written by education policy co-leads Professor Katherine Weare and Adrian Bethune after extensive consultation with an expert steering group.

The guide aims to be a crucial resource for all teachers, educators, and SLT members interested in implementing mindfulness within their schools. It covers what mindfulness is (including the neuroscience behind it), the evidence base and the outcomes of mindfulness in schools for both students and teachers, and the key practical considerations around successfully implementing an ethical and sustainable mindfulness programme within a school setting.

See more about the paper here.

share this

back to publications

Related news & events

What outcomes have mindfulness and meditation interventions for managers and leaders achieved? A systematic review – by Emma Donaldson-Feilder et al.

Image by Marcus Winkler (Unspash.com) ABSTRACT: No systematic review had previously been conducted examining the benefits mindfulness or meditation interventions for leaders and managers. However, the literature suggested that such interventions would have a positive impact on leaders’ own well-being, their leadership capability, their “post-conventional” leadership capacity, and their direct reports. The purpose of this […]

read more

Balancing Well-Being and Performance in the Virtual Workplace

Mindful Workplace Community corporate partner Awaris worked with the Boston Consulting Group to produce this short publication on the part mindfulness can play in supporting employee well-being and performance in the virtual workplace. Give it a read here.

read more

Time for new thinking about mindfulness and social change

Inspired by recent critiques of instrumentalised mindfulness training, Mindfulness Initiative director Jamie Bristow has written a piece for openDemocracy asking why critics paint inner development as a barrier to better systems when, amidst crisis and complexity, we need both. Time for new thinking about mindfulness and social change – openDemocracy, September 3rd 2019.

read more