Mindfulness Resources

Documentaries
The Mindfulness Experiment	Mindfulness Documentary – Catalyst Series 20 The Mindfulness Experiment
My Year of Living Mindfully	2020 Shannon Harvey’s award winning documentary

Mindfulness pre-course questionnaire
MBSR pre-course questionnaire	Complete prior to attending MBSR course

Learn more about Mindfulness
Openground	Information on MBBSR
Harvard Research	When Science meets Mindfulness
Harvard Research	Benefits of Mindfulness
Openground	The Science behind Mindfulness
The Conversation	Articles on Mindfulness
ABC Science	How mindfulness works – and changes the brain’s architecture
Sara Lazar, Harvard	Stress, Meditation, Yoga and the Brain
MiCBT Research	Co-emergent Model of Reinforcement Bruno Cayoun Mindfulness integrated CBT

Dan Siegel – Wheel of Awareness & Nature of Mind
Dan Siegel	More information on The Wheel of Awareness & the Nature of Mind
Like Mind, Like Body	The Wheel of Awareness with simple explanation
Aware book	Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence by Daniel J Siegel, MD Published August 21, 2018 Tarcher Perigee

Books
Available from Booktopia	Mark Williams and Denny Penman, Mindfulness. A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World (Piaktus, 2011).
Available from Booktopia	Goleman, D., and R. J. Davidson. (2017). Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body. New York: Penguin Random House.
Available from Simon & Schuster	Wes Nisker, Forward by Jack Kornfield, Being Nature: A Down-to-Earth Guide to the Four Foundations of Mindfulness by Wes Nisker. Publisher: Inner Traditions (2022). Originally published as Buddha’s Nature in the late 1990’s.

Videos
Jon Kabbat Zinn	What meditation really is. 6 min YouTube clip

How MBSR came about and the science behind it

The MBSR course was first developed by Professor Jon Kabat-Zinn in 1979 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. It has been widely researched over the past 30 years and is at the cutting edge of integrative and preventative medicine. It is the gold-standard of secular mindfulness based approaches for mental and physical health and leads to measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy, and stress as well as improving the immune response.