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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)

Published: 21st May, 2019

Updated: 5th May, 2020

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