Mindfulness Resources

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.

Images retrieved from Sara Lazar PhD (harvard.edu). “Her amazing brain scans show meditation can actually change the size of key regions of our brain, improving our memory and making us more empathetic, compassionate, and resilient under stress.” – TEDX TALKS