The Oxford Mindfulness Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Join us for Chapter Two, “Pay Attention!”, of our year-long Guest Speaker Event series: "A Life Well-Lived: Mindfulness for Life in 12 Chapters," in collaboration with Professor Willem Kuyken.

In this session, Professor Kuyken shared valuable insights from the second chapter of his new book, "Mindfulness for Life", providing practical strategies for developing and managing attention in everyday life.

Willem emphasised attention as a valuable resource and highlighted how mindfulness practice can enhance our ability to manage and direct our attention.

If you'd like to join the events live, they're taking place monthly between September 2024 and October 2025 and are free to access. Find out more and register

Oxford Mindfulness is a not-for-profit organisation helping people achieve greater well-being and improved mental health through research-based mindfulness. Visit our website

Join us for Chapter One, “Wake-Up!”, of our year-long Guest Speaker Event series: "A Life Well-Lived: Mindfulness for Life in 12 Chapters" in collaboration with Professor Willem Kuyken.

In this foundational session, Professor Kuyken shared valuable insights from the first chapter of his new book, "Mindfulness for Life" focusing on the importance of values, befriending the mind, and cultivating attention and awareness. 

He also introduced practices for pausing and checking in, starting and ending the day mindfully, and staying present in the moment.

If you'd like to join the events live, they're taking place monthly between September 2024 and October 2025 and are free to access. You can find out more and register here

The Oxford Mindfulness Foundation is a non-profit organisation internationally recognised for mindfulness teaching and training – find out more

Ed Halliwell interview - Supervision in the workplace

Lotty Roberts - Leaders in our modern world are constantly dealing with change and uncertainty.  In order to navigate this ever changing landscape, leaders need to  remain focused, nimble and resilient, supporting their teams and organisations to embrace complexity with openness and agility.  Lotty Roberts shares her experience, passion and approach on what it means to Mindfully lead through change and why she believes change navigated well at work, is in itself mindfulness in action.

20230301 Science-backed tips for maintaining practice Dr Carly Hunt

Join Richard Burnett (Co-Founder and Chair), Ben Chalwin (Head of Training) and Emily Slater (CEO) from Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP) as they look back over 12+ years of experience in the UK (and internationally), and where next for mindfulness with children, young people and those who care for or work with them.

Susanne Olbrich, Pianist & Mindfulness Facilitator leading a session entitled New Year, New Inspiration.

Join Susanne for a deep dive into your own creative resources with the help of mindfulness and music. An hour with calming piano music, creative conversations, Deep Listening – and you might even find yourself writing a flash poem!

As an experienced mindfulness teacher and musician, Susanne loves sharing the combined benefits of meditation and creative practice with people from a range of backgrounds, from professionals to complete novices. She has developed an 8-week course “Mindfulness for Musicians”, and also offers 1-to-1 coaching, group sessions, trainings, workshops and retreats. Susanne’s music is inspired by folk, jazz and classical.

Susanne is a Zen teacher in the tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh. She also trained as a teacher for Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR), the Mindfulness-based Living Course (MBLC), and as  Deep Listening® facilitator with Rensselaer Polytechnic. More recently, Susanne completed a Master’s in Mindfulness with the University of Aberdeen, researching “Mindfulness and Musical Creativity”. Listen to her music and find out more about her work here: https://susanneolbrich.net

Nick Hammond - Building compassion and inspiration through the simple act of noticing

Sila (or moral conduct) is the principle of human behaviour that promotes orderly and peaceful existence in a community. It is regarded as an anchor practice for Dhamma practitioners, and crucial for developing insight and wisdom.  In this podcast, Erin shares how this ancient Eastern practice has been crucial for sustaining and strengthening her own meditation practice;  and offers some thoughts around how it can support the harmonious functioning of modern teams and workplaces as well.

Shannon Harvey My Year of Living Mindfully (What Happened Next)

in this talk Shannon tells the story of what happened next.

Hosted by Clare Kelly (OMF)