About the keynote

The ubiquity of mindfulness training and the multiplicity of its positive outcomes in the supporting science are sometimes given as reasons to dismiss it, and to claim that it's considered a panacea. But its conspicuously diverse application is not a sign that a simple technique is being over-sold, instead it points to mindfulness being a root construct – something ‘critical to how and what one values, thinks, feels, and does in all social domains’.

In this talk we will explore a new narrative account of why mindfulness may fundamentally underpin a host of critical positive behaviours and outcomes at individual and societal levels. We will look at the current 'meta-crisis', the interconnected political, cultural, economic, technological and environmental tensions that are destabilising our societies, and how the training of mind and heart may be vital to help us meet a future of extraordinary uncertainty and peril.

About the speaker

Jamie Bristow is Director of the world's first policy institute about mindfulness, which grew out of a programme of mindfulness teaching for politicians in the British Parliament.

The Mindfulness Initiative provides the secretariat to the UK Mindfulness All-Party Parliamentary Group and helped politicians to publish the seminal Mindful Nation UK policy report. Jamie now works with politicians around the world to help them make capacities of mind and heart serious considerations of public policy.

He was formerly Business Development Director for the meditation app, Headspace.

Read more here: https://www.themindfulnessinitiative.org/