The Vulnerability Effect Podcast interviews people around their experiences facing into vulnerability and adversity. The intention is to change the perception around vulnerability and showcase it as a point of growth, strength, and connection with others who have faced similar challenges.
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Stitchery Stories... Where textile artists share their life in fabric & thread. Embroidery. Textile Art. Inspiration, Techniques, Disasters & Delights. Join embroidery enthusiast & textile art dabbler, Susan Weeks, in her friendly chats with UK textile artists. Discover how they got started. Share the lessons learned along the way. Get excited about what they are working on at the moment. Learn how they keep their business growing, their creativity flowing, and get a sneak peek into what is ...
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The Oxford Mindfulness Foundation is internationally recognised for mindfulness teaching and training. Whilst some of our podcasts are designed for those with an established mindfulness practice, there are others that are suitable for the general public, meaning you do not need prior experience to listen.
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Jack Roberts: Freehand Machine Embroidery Fine Artist
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Dr. Jack Roberts, also known as JPR Stitch, is a fine artist specializing in freehand machine embroidery, creating stunning abstract shapes from dense, intricate webs of stitches. His art reflects the calmness and tranquility he experiences while stitching, making sewing his form of meditation. Jack shares insights into his artistic journey, curren…
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Barney Dunn & Megan Colletta: "Letting the Light In: Using Mindfulness to Reconnect with Positive Emotion and Build Wellbeing"
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The predominant focus of mindfulness-based approaches to date has been supporting individuals to manage challenging situations, so that negative emotions do not escalate out of control and skilful life choices can be made. There is now increasing interest in using mindfulness techniques to also help individuals make the most of life opportunities, …
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Alison Holt: Freehand Machine Embroidery Landscapes
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Alison Holt is a contemporary textile artist, teacher and author who combines silk painting and freehand machine embroidery to create beautiful landscapes and glimpses of the natural world. Alison shares how her career and art continues to evolve, as she looks for new challenges. Following new opportunities as well as ongoing marketing and visibiit…
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Caroline Hyde-Brown : Weaving Plant Material Into Textile Art
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Caroline Hyde-Brown is a textile artist with a long-established career. Inspired by botanical research, she combines foraged plant material with a variety of textile art techniques to create fascinating weaves and vessels with fragile beauty. Combined with her purposeful art practice experience, Caroline shares plenty of wisdom on Stitchery Stories…
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Norman Farb and Zindel Segal - Better in Every Sense
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In collaboration with ACCESSMBCT, we are delighted to bring you this guest talk from Norman Farb and Zindel Segal, introducing their new book, "Better in Every Sense".By Oxford Mindfulness Foundation
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MBCT for OCD: A Manualized Treatment Program with Dr. Fabrizio Didonna
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Dr Fabrizio Didonna is a clinical psychologist, senior mindfulness teacher, trainer, supervisor and author. He is also a Founder Director of the International MBCT for OCD Center, in Vicenza, Italy, and the developer of the therapeutic model. His manual "Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder" (Guilford Press, 2020 - …
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Trish Bartley - Holding Groups: Exploring the ‘Inside Out Approach’ to Working with Groups
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In this special guest talk, we're pleased to welcome back Trish Bartley, an OMF guest trainer, mindfulness teacher trainer and author of a number of books including ‘Mindfulness: A Kindly Approach to Being with Cancer’, ‘Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer’ and ‘Teaching Mindfulness-Based Groups’ which Trish co-authored with Dr. Gemma Gr…
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Mark Williams - Deeper Mindfulness: The New Way to Rediscover Calm in a Chaotic World
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In this special guest speaker event, we’re delighted to welcome back Professor Mark Williams who will introduce the topic ‘Deeper Mindfulness’ – the subject and title of his new book with co-author Dr Danny Penman. “Proven effective at treating anxiety, stress and depression, the practices in ‘Deeper Mindfulness’ offer a new and more fruitful direc…
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Hannah Thompson: A Transformational Year As A Creative Business
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Hannah Thompson has always loved crafting, quilting & textile art. In 2017, at a crossroads in her life, dealing with emotional & family upset, she left her corporate career and set up Stitching Kitchen. On Stitchery Stories textile art podcast, Hannah shares her story and we dive into what she describes as her transformational business year in 202…
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Susan Bogels - Living Mindfulnessy With Autism or ADHD
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Autism and ADHD are neurodevelopmental conditions that continue to profoundly influence the way we are in the world also in adulthood. In our current urban world, characterized by high speed, deadlines, full agendas, multitasking, (social) performance pressure, and a bombardment of stimuli, all of us but people with autism and ADHD even more so may…
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Holly Jackson : Mixing modern stumpwork embroidery with mixed media : An artists journey
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Textile artist Holly Jackson shares her recent journey in developing her art career. Developing her 'sneaky' stumpwork embroidery using modern materials and mixed media, there are plenty of exciting 'firsts' to celebrate with Holly! We join Holly at the start of her first art exhibition. She shares her preparation and hopes from the show. We chat a…
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David Treleaven - Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness: Nuturing Resilience and Empowerment
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Discover the profound intersection of mindfulness and trauma resilience in this engaging three-hour webinar on Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness. Led by esteemed expert David Treleaven, this transformative event will delve into the art of creating safe, empowering mindfulness spaces for all, regardless of their trauma history.…
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Jayne Emerson Returns: Impatient Textile Rebel
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Textile artist Jayne Emerson revisits the Stitchery Stories textile art podcast today! She takes us on a journey on how she has pivoted her creative business to focus on teaching people around the world through her online courses and her unique membership The No-Rules Textiles Society. Jayne was a guest here back in 2018 and gives a quick update as…
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Emma Horan: Cornwall Cross Stitch Kit Designer
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Cornwall Cross Stitch Kit designer Emma Horan shares behind the scenes of her 'accidental' creative business based around counted cross stitch hand embroidery kits of the beautiful Cornish coast. For the last 10 years, Emma has grown her cross stitch kit business from a therapeutic hobby as she recovered from illness, to a thriving creative busines…
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Ed Halliwell interview - Supervision in the workplace
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Ed Halliwell interview - Supervision in the workplaceBy Oxford Mindfulness Foundation
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Lottie Cockell : Growing Her Creative Business From Hand Embroidery
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Lottie Cockell started her creative business Purple Rose Embroidery fresh out of school, and has been busy growing shaping her business over the last 5 years. With a love of 'grid-based' hand embroidery, Lottie focuses on cross-stitch, blackwork and surface embroidery kits. She is keen to try new things in her business and will often dive into the …
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Prism Textiles Group: behind the scenes of their annual textile art exhibition
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Prism Textile Group members Hayley Mills-Styles and Maria Walker share behind-the-scenes challenges of helping to organise an annual textile art exhibition which features work from the groups' international members. Hayley & Maria explain the background and history of this well-known exhibiting group, and then we dive into the details of organising…
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Lotty Roberts Why is mindfulness a key ingredient for effectively leading and navigating change?
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Lotty Roberts - Leaders in our modern world are constantly dealing with change and uncertainty. In order to navigate this ever changing landscape, leaders need to remain focused, nimble and resilient, supporting their teams and organisations to embrace complexity with openness and agility. Lotty Roberts shares her experience, passion and approach o…
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Sarah Gwyer : Contemporary Embroidery Beaded Pop Art
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Today I explore hand embroidered and beaded pop art with contemporary pop art textile artist Sarah Gwyer. We talk about her magpie-like 'obsession' with colourful beads and charms and the artistic path to creating beaded portraits. But beneath the colourful sparkling beads lies strong social commentary on celebrity, wealth and consumerism, all expr…
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20230301 Science-backed tips for maintaining practice Dr Carly Hunt
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20230301 Science-backed tips for maintaining practice Dr Carly HuntBy Oxford Mindfulness Foundation
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Vanessa Marr: Domestic Dusters: Embroidery On Women And Domesticity
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Back in 2014, textile artist, academic & designer Vanessa Marr posed the question: Women & Domesticity - What's Your Perspective? And invited those thoughts to be embroidered upon a yellow duster, in red thread. Little did she realise what she had unleashed... Nine years later, Vanessa has an amazing collection of embroidered dusters and an even mo…
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Kirstie Macleod : The Red Dress Global Embroidery Project
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Textile artist Kirstie Macleod shares her life in fabric & thread on Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast today! She shares her fascinating story of The Red Dress. It's an amazing project which has enabled unheard women, many in poverty, vulnerable through trauma and abuse, to share their personal stories, using the universal language of embroidery…
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Richard Burnett (Co-Founder and Chair), Ben Chalwin (Head of Training) and Emily Slater (CEO) from Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP)
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Join Richard Burnett (Co-Founder and Chair), Ben Chalwin (Head of Training) and Emily Slater (CEO) from Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP) as they look back over 12+ years of experience in the UK (and internationally), and where next for mindfulness with children, young people and those who care for or work with them.…
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Susanne Olbrich - New Year, New Inspiration social evening 27th January 2023
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Susanne Olbrich, Pianist & Mindfulness Facilitator leading a session entitled New Year, New Inspiration. Join Susanne for a deep dive into your own creative resources with the help of mindfulness and music. An hour with calming piano music, creative conversations, Deep Listening – and you might even find yourself writing a flash poem! As an experie…
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Merrilyn Heazlewood : Creative Counted Canvaswork Embroidery
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Embroidery artist Merrilyn Heazlewood shares her life in fabric & thread on Stitchery Stories embroidery podcast today! She takes us on a journey through her interesting and busy lifelong creative business career based around counted canvas work hand embroidery. And for those of you in the USA, you will know canvaswork as needlepoint. Anyway, over …
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Building compassion and inspiration through the simple act of noticing - Nick Hammond
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Nick Hammond - Building compassion and inspiration through the simple act of noticingBy Oxford Mindfulness Foundation
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Stitchery Stories Listeners Creative Joy Highlights 2022
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A cheerful & inspiring episode as global listeners of Stitchery Stories textile art podcast share their stories of creative joy from 2022, and shoutout those 'joy bringers' who helped them in some way to achieve that joy. Hello & Welcome to my final episode of 2022. A recurring theme is how much comfort & joy creative activities bring us. So I thou…
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The Practice of Sila: How Mindful Self-Restraint Could Transform the Workplace
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Sila (or moral conduct) is the principle of human behaviour that promotes orderly and peaceful existence in a community. It is regarded as an anchor practice for Dhamma practitioners, and crucial for developing insight and wisdom. In this podcast, Erin shares how this ancient Eastern practice has been crucial for sustaining and strengthening her ow…
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Elizabeth Griffiths : Using hand embroidery for Portrait Artist Of The Year competition
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Elizabeth Griffiths is a mixed media artist using hand embroidery, lino print-making, inks and watercolours to explore a range of themes. She shares the uplifting experience (and challenge!) of using hand embroidery as a competitor in Sky TV Portrait Artist Of The Year. We dive behind the scenes! Who was her portrait subject? How was it organised? …
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Shannon Harvey My Year of Living Mindfully (What Happened Next)
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Shannon Harvey My Year of Living Mindfully (What Happened Next) in this talk Shannon tells the story of what happened next. Hosted by Clare Kelly (OMF)By Oxford Mindfulness Foundation
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Stacey Jones : Modern Abstract Hand Embroidery
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Stacey Jones creates colourful, modern, abstract hand embroidery art. Her work powerfully reflects her thoughts & emotions through her life experiences. Stacey shares her story of how her life with her husband has strongly informed her embroidery designs, particularly his illness, tragic death and her mourning process as she evolves into living alo…
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We are excited to announce that OMF teacher and supervisor, Liz Lord, has represented us on BBC Radio. She spoke to BBC Radio 5 Live about the OMF and its work, including how mindfulness can support us in today’s world. This was to celebrate the launch of our new daily lunchtime sit which is available to all for free. To register for these sessions…
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Tim Dalgleish - Part 2 -The findings of the MY Resilience In ADolescence (MYRIAD) project
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Tim Dalgleish from the University of Cambridge has kindly offered to return for an evening of further questions and discussions around the MYRIAD research findings. The intention is to offer an opportunity to practise together, ask any further questions and share further thoughts on the implications of the MYRIAD study for mindfulness in education …
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Floriane Schmitt : Creative Fabric Manipulation Ideas
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Floriane Schmitt loves to experiment with creative fabric manipulation ideas. Under her brand name of FloHomeDesign she creates accessories and home decor items from smocked neoprene and is writing a fabric manipulation book, due out end 2023. Floriane shares her story of how her dream of a career in fashion evolved into specialising in fabric mani…
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Tim Dalgleish - Part 1 - The findings of the MY Resilience In ADolescence (MYRIAD) project
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Mindfulness and cancer Gently turning towards with Trish Bartley
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We are delighted to be joined for our May keynote session by Trish Bartley. Trish will join us in May to share some stories, a few practices, and some of her learning from the experience of teaching MBCT to people with cancer.By Oxford Mindfulness Foundation
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The Dark Side of Social MediaHow Mindfulness Can Help with Erin Lee
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From mindless distractions and addictive behaviours to cyberbullying and encouraging feelings of inadequacy, we are becoming increasingly aware of the detrimental effects of social media usage on our mental health and wellbeing. Mindfulness Coach Erin Lee shares how understanding the skills and practice of mindfulness can help us navigate our love-…
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In this session we will review a three-fold model for understanding how mindfulness supports human agency, our ability to act intentionally, that was proposed in Jamie’s 2020 discussion paper Mindfulness: Developing Agency in Urgent Times, and explore his latest research and publication launched in March 2022 titled Reconnection: Meeting the Climat…
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Understanding the challenging dynamics of mindfulness practice with Norman Farb
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Drawing from emerging behavioural and neuroimaging research, this presentation with Norman Farb outlines the difficulty of understanding what it means to bring acceptance to our most challenging moments, explore what aspects of breath awareness are actually important for wellbeing, and illustrate how the brain can become quiet without becoming dise…
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In this talk, Dr Sara Lazar will discuss her work evaluating the effects of regular mindfulness practice on a metric of adult development related to how we view and interact with the world.By Oxford Mindfulness Foundation
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Cath Janes : Hand Embroidered Human Anatomy
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Cath Janes is an award-winning human anatomical embroidery artist. Under her brand name of Kraken Kreations she combines anatomically correct illustrations with colourful hand embroidery which all have a story to tell. Cath shares her honest and hilarious story of the ups and downs of the creative life of an artist, and her unique and distinctive a…
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Susan Hensel : Communicating Ideas Through Digital Machine Embroidery
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Susan Hensel is a multidisciplinary artist with a long-established career. She combines mixed media with digital machine embroidery to create beautiful sculptural forms flooded with colour. Alongside runs her gallery & curatative experience, giving us a fabulous guest sharing her art practice wisdom, on Stitchery Stories textile art podcast. Art is…
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Bringing Mindfulness to teams in organisations
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In this podcast Silke Rupprecht, Head of Research and Development at Awaris speaks to us about bringing mindfulness to teams in organisations. She offers her thoughts on the reasons behind the growing interest in mindful teams and how team mindfulness training may need to be different from individual mindfulness training. Silke also shares insights…
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Mindfulness and Cancer: Gently Turning Towards with Trish Bartley
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Way back in 2000, Mark Williams opened doors for her to start bringing mindfulness to the patients of a Welsh oncology department where Trish herself had just finished treatment. Over the 20 years that followed, she continued to teach enabling the programme to slowly adapt from the original MBCT, with John Teasdale guiding Trish as they teased out …
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What is the role of mindful leadership in addressing the climate crisis?
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In the latest episode of our workplace podcast series, Liane Stephan, co-founder of Awaris and the Inner Green Deal, speaks to the OMC about sustainability and the climate crisis. She shares her experiences of working with leaders who clearly have the capacity to affect organisational change. Liane offers some thoughts on how as mindfulness trainer…
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Looking ahead to a new year with Mindfulness with Jake Dartington
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Listen again to our first keynote session of 2022. Jake Dartington joined us to look ahead to a new year with Mindfulness.By Oxford Mindfulness Centre
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Mindfulness for people with learning disabilities with Gemma Griffith
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Hosted by Andy Phee and led by Gemma Griffith, this keynote will inform mindfulness teachers how they could adapt their courses making them more suitable for people with learning disabilities. It may also be of interest to others working in the field of learning disabilities who have an interest in mindfulness.…
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The impact of art on the neurobiology of stress with Dr Sará King
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In this keynote presentation, listeners will receive an overview of the neurobiology of mindfulness, and how this relates to a brief history of the use of art-therapy for healing in clinical and non-clinical settings. Listeners will also be introduced to the neurobiology of viewing abstract art, as it relates to stress reduction in clinical and non…
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