Media coverage of Mindfulness Initiative International Mindfulness In Politics Day October 17th 2017 The Guardian 'Way ahead of the curve': UK hosts first summit on mindful politics Ministers to meditate with politicians from Israel, Sri Lanka and Sweden as part of event exploring benefits of mindfulness The Times (Front Page): Hour in the Bath Each Morning - How an MP Begins Work The Times (Satirical Politcal Sketch): Zen-like MPs find peace in the Westminster bubbles BBC.com The Papers BBC Radio / Online Tim Loughton: The MP who loves being in hot water The Telegraph Tory MP reveals secret to success - an hour long bath every morning West Sussex County Times County News: Sussex MP’s hour-long morning bath routine sparks national headlines Mirror Tory MP who has an hour-long bath every morning claimed £662 water bills on expenses The Daily Mail Oh the bliss of bath time! QUENTIN LETTS comes clean on his love for a good soak after MP Tim Loughton lands in hot water for saying he spends an hour in the tub every morning Huffington Post Conservative MP Tim Loughton 'Starts Day with Hour in Bath' The Guardian Tory MP who has hour-long baths claims £662 water bill on expenses The Metro In hot water: Tory who is keen to take an early bath The Metro In the week of the first UK summit on mindful politics, we find the best ways to take a breather (this has a good bit about the conference at the bottom of the article) Evening Standard 145 MPs sign up for 8-week mindfulness course 'to help with policy-making' The Telegraph Tim Loughton MP is right - you can't beat a long bath (even in the morning) i Newspaper - Hour-long bather Tim Loughton MP expenses £660 for water bill in last two years The Times Clearing the waters about my bathing routine (it’s all about mindfulness) The Guardian Master of mindfulness, Jon Kabat-Zinn: ‘People are losing their minds. That is what we need to wake up to’ Mindfulness Initiative in the news: Mindfulness to help children's mental well-being in schools (BBC) Over 5,000 teachers in the UK have been trained to teach mindfulness, according to the Mindfulness Initiative How Mindfulness will Protect You From Being Replaced by a Robot (Mindful) A radical vision of our future places self-awareness and contemplative practice at the center of human endeavor. More than 140 MPs undertake ancient meditation classes INSIDE Parliament (Daily Mail) Close your eyes and breathe: schools sign up to mindfulness (Guardian) Coverage of Mindful Nation UK Launch: BBC Breakfast (part 1) - Launch of Mindful Nation UK BBC Breakfast (part 2) - Mindfulness in schools Mindfulness in the mainstream: an old solution to modern problems (Guardian) Mindfulness has huge health potential – but McMindfulness is no panacea (Jon Kabat-Zinn, Guardian) Tracey Crouch, MP, Reveals How Mindfulness Helped Her Combat Anxiety And Depression, At Mindful Nation UK Report Launch (Huffington Post) 195 MPs, peers and staff attend mindfulness classes (BT.com) Mindful Nation UK Report on Mental Health in Public Policy (Mindful) From personal mindful practice in Parliament to community-wide policy level (Euroscientist) Britain's most dangerous prisoners to get meditation lessons (Guardian) Dangerous prisoners taught mindfulness and meditation (The Telegraph) Britain's most dangerous prisoners to be taught meditation by prison guards in high-security units to 'quell their violent anger' (Daily Mail) Free your mind: violent prisoners are given meditation lessons (The Times) Mindfulness training reduces workplace stress and absenteeism (Workplace Savings and Benefits) Mindfulness at risk of being 'turned into a free market commodity' (Guardian) Can You Imagine a Mindful Parliament in Britain? (Blog, Huffington Post) Could ‘mindfulness’ make Britain happier? (Scotsman) Coverage Before the Launch of Mindful Nation UK: Meditation may prevent absenteeism by stressed public servants, MPs claim (Guardian) Politicians joined by Ruby Wax as parliament pauses for meditation (Guardian) Why we will come to see mindfulness as mandatory (Guardian) Can Mindfulness Transform Politics? (Mindful) Mindfulness: has it been hijacked by business or can it change lives? (Guardian) Mindfulness: What is most personal is most universal (RSA) All Party Parliamentary Group launch (Oxford Mindfulness Centre) All Party Parliamentary Group to study the benefits of bringing mindfulness into public policy (University of Exeter) Stop, think, breathe... vote: Mindfulness in Parliament (Prospect Magazine) Manage Cookie Preferences