When: 13 Mar 2025
Where: Online Event
Tutor: Bridgette O'Neill
About the event:
Following on from the International Conference on Mindfulness (ICM:2024), hosted by Bangor University and the Mindfulness Network, we invite you to continue the conversation with a series of monthly, donation-based events. Each session will explore a different conference strand theme, featuring a recorded keynote presentation and a community discussion.
We’ll begin with a welcome, introduction, and brief mindfulness practice, followed by a 1-hour viewing of a keynote session and a 30-minute discussion. Join us to watch the keynotes freely and connect with fellow mindfulness practitioners - whether you attended the conference or not – everyone is welcome! Sessions will take place monthly from January to May 2025 for a chance to explore each strand. Please check the calendar for dates and register separately for each session.
Full access to all conference recordings, including keynotes, panel discussions, over 100 research presentations and bonus content, will be made available for purchase from January 2025.
Strand Three - Social, cultural, and systemic approaches
How do different perspectives shape mindfulness? In this strand, take a look at mindfulness-based approaches in light of today's big challenges, like social inequality, racial injustice, and the ecological crisis, and how these affect individuals and groups. In the keynote "Deepening the Roots of Socially-Engaged Mindfulness: Awareness-based Support for Change and Transformation in Troubled Times," Rhonda Magee examines how mindfulness may be the key to developing the moral flexibility and empathy needed to better manage today’s challenges. The address describes why and how socio-ethical mindfulness can maximise our capacity to choose actions that connect rather than divide, and to deepen the roots of wellbeing for us all in these times.
The event will take place online using Zoom from 7 – 8.45 pm UK time.
Who is the event for:
The session is freely offered and open to all.
What you will need for the event:
To participate online, you will need:
- A room where you can close the door and engage in the practice away from family distractions. Confidentiality must be maintained by ensuring that those who are not at the event cannot see your screen or hear the audio. It may be helpful to use headphones.
- Log in via a computer that is resting on a hard surface and which has audio and a webcam. Please don’t use handheld devices.
- A space for practice, a mat, cushion, and blanket may be helpful for your comfort.
The Facilitators:
Each session will be facilitated by a member of ICM:2024 Conference Team. Check the link at the top of the page to find out more about your host.
ICM:2024 - Mindfulness in a Changing World took place in August 2024 in Bangor, Wales, and online. Hosted by Bangor University’s Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) in collaboration with the Mindfulness Network, ICM:2024 served as “a rallying call for diverse perspectives on the relevance, significance, and potential of mindfulness in our world today.”
The Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP), based at Bangor University, is one of the largest and oldest mindfulness teacher training organisations in the UK, established in 2001. The Mindfulness Network is a registered charity in the UK, offering high quality mindfulness training, supervision, retreats and other mindfulness-based services.
Attendance information:
The event will take place via Zoom - a weblink and joining instructions will be sent to you before the session takes place.
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Timings:
The session will start at 7pm and end by 8.45pm (UK time).
Donations:
We invite you to share any benefit you may receive from this community gathering by making a donation. Thank you in advance for supporting the work of ICM:2024 hosts - The Mindfulness Network charity and Bangor University - to widen global access to mindfulness-based approaches. Our aspiration is for the conference to continue inspiring, resourcing and encouraging the wider community, mindfulness teachers and researchers to develop their work and to take it to new levels of impact. Any donations you offer, large or small, will contribute to ongoing efforts to explore how mindfulness and compassion can address the challenges of a changing world – and our commitments to making mindfulness teaching and research accessible to all.
We look forward to seeing you!
The application and donation process:
Our application and donation process involves the following steps:
- Please complete your chosen application form and you will be given the option to donate via PayPal or card at this stage should you choose to do so.
- Application is received and you will be booked into the event.
- We will email you the further details in advance of the event.
Payment and cancellation policy:
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Contact us:
Please feel free to email us at events@mindfulness-network.org to discuss any questions you may have about the event.
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