Befriending Your Mind, Befriending Your Life: Mindfulness and the Endless Adventure of Growing into Yourself, Jon Kabat-Zinn. This excerpt comes from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s keynote presentation at the Feb 2013 Bridging Hearts and Minds of Youth from the UCSD Center for Mindfulness at the University of California San Diego School of Medecine.
The BBC Breakfast Programme ran a report on the emergence of Mindfulness in UK schools as a means of reducing curriculum and exam stress amongst teenagers. For more information please contact The Mindfulness in Schools Project, the UK’s leading organisation in this field. The piece was aired on Wednesday 27 March, 2013
There has never been a school for girls in the village of Deh Subz, Afghanistan. Afghan-American Razia Jan set out to change that. In 2009, despite pressure to educate boys and threats to ruin the school, the Zabuli Education Center opened a school to educate 200 girls. Razia’s hope is to make life a little …
Now safely back home in the USA, Goldie Hawn’s high publicity UK mindfulness tour has been on the receiving end of a bit of negative press recently, courtesy of the Daily Mail’s Portrait of a Very Unlikely Parenting Guru. More specifically, the actress has been variously ‘observed’ by the newspaper, for letting her hair down …
In case you missed it, here is the link to the podcast of Goldie Hawn talking about Mindfulness and her new book Ten Mindful Minutes on Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. The segment is first up and around 12 minutes long Podcast Woman’s Hour with Goldie Hawn – 6th March 2012 For more information on the …
Since 2005, The Hawn Foundation has been working with schools across the United States to promote children’s academic success through social and emotional learning. At the core of the initiative is the MindUP programme, a social and emotional learning program for primary and secondary school children and is informed by current research in the fields …