Patrons

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches mindfulness around the world, having developed Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in the late 1970s.

 

Ruby Wax

Ruby Wax is a comedian. She has completed a masters in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy at the Oxford University Mindfulness Centre, and is author of Sane New World: Taming The Mind. She works to promote understanding of the brain, campaigning for greater mental health awareness and destigmatisation.

Watch Ruby and former MI Director Jamie Bristow discuss how transformative practices can underpin systemic shifts here.

 

Trustees 

David Crook

David has extensive experience of stakeholder and relationship management and has particular grounding in inner-led change and mindfulness practice. He has worked for over 25 years on partnerships and resource mobilization with non-profit organisations and foundations. Having practiced insight meditation and ethical training since 2005, his main area of interest now is in advancing the uptake of inner-development and contemplative practices within social and environmental change movements.  Inner-led change, for short. 

Kareen Griffiths

Kareen is a Mindful Change consultant, speaker, facilitator and mental health advocate. She specialises in helping leaders and teams within organisations integrate mindfulness practices to drive positive change for wellbeing and to reduce burnout in the workplace. Kareen has over 15 years change management and communications experience working with global organisations. Kareen is also a Mindful DJ and uses music as a medium to bring communities together and increase access to mindfulness. 

Richard Edwards

Richard is a Senior Strategy and Planning Manager in the public sector.  As former Director of the Mindfulness Initiative, he brings to the Board an in-depth knowledge of the operational needs of the organisation, as well as a wealth of experience in strategy, leadership and organisational development. Richard trained as a mindfulness teacher with Breathworks and is also a change management practitioner.