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)