Professor Paul Gilbert (University of Derby) and the OMC's Professor Willem Kuyken will be giving a keynote symposium on the relationship between mindfulness and compassion at the Mindfulness in Society Conference in Chester this July.

A newly published review by the Campbell Collaboration has examined the effect of mindfulness-based interventions in schools, summarizing 61 studies and synthesizing 35 studies, with a total of 6207 student participants.

The full details of a randomised controlled trial in the MYRIAD project, which is studying the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a mindfulness training programme in schools compared with normal school provision, have recently been published. This study protocol outlines the methods and design for conducting the study.

Training the next generation of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy teachers and increasing access to high-quality MBCT training internationally.

New paper provides a framework to define the essential characteristics of the family of mindfulness-based programs (MBPs) originating from the parent program MBSR, and the processes which inform adaptations of MBPs for different populations or contexts.

How accessible is MBCT in the NHS, what are the facilitators and barriers to its implementation, and how we can support the NHS in making MBCT accessible?

"Rather than viewing the fact that life is hard as evidence of our inability to cope, maybe we can work towards acknowledging that things are tough, while finding some steadiness in the midst of the storms."

Summer School leaders Melanie Fennell and Mark Williams describe the content of their 2017 workshop

Read this blog from Frauke Eicker on her experience of taking an MBCT course

Being consumed by work is not a pre-requisite for happiness at work - in fact, the opposite may be true, Willem Kuyken tells the Guardian.