We convene conferences, workshops, webinars and retreats that bring together Network members to share ideas and make connections.
Past events include:
- Mindfulness on the Margins 2: The power and politics of mindfulness in society, 19-20 April 2018, Birmingham, UK
- Mindfulness and Social Change Network retreat, 2016, Norfolk, UK
- Mindfulness and Social Change Network workshop, November 2015, London, UK
Past webinars include:
- How to build resilience among changemakers? Experiences and questions from Movement for Change – with Milla Gregor
- Missing Class: strengthening the mindfulness movement by seeing class structures – with Colette Power
- Young people, identity and citizenship – with Maureen O’Callaghan
- Applying mindfulness to social work practice and self-care: enhancing social worker consciousness to support anti-oppressive practices – with Dr Alan Maddock and Dr Pearse McCusker
- Doing the work of dismantling ‘whiteness’ – with Paula Haddock and Crystal Johnson
- Mindfulness-based inclusion training – with Dean Francis and Aesha Francis
- Sharing the learning from a Training for Change course – with Paula Haddock
- Mindfulness, consumerism and sustainability: what are the links? – with Alison Armstrong
- A mindful path to compassionate inclusion – with Byron Lee
- Developing and leading a mindfulness for social change course: sharing the learning – with Paula Haddock
- Mindfulness for social change: is it a quick fix, or transformational? And how would we know? – with Rachel Lilley
Other related events organised by Network members include:
- Mindfulness in Public Discourse – 8th December 2018. This was a one day conference offered by SOAS University. Many of the speakers were network members.
- Mindfulness: adaptations, ethics and impact, September 2016, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK (convened by Rachel Lilley)
- Mindfulness on the Margins, July 2017, Emerson College, East Sussex, UK (convened by Steven Stanley and Meg-John Barker)
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