Event: The Future of Digital Mindfulness with Rohan Gunatillake
Rohan Gunatillake is best known as the creator of the meditation app buddhify. Through his company Mindfulness Everywhere and its products, Rohan is an advocate of what he calls urban or mobile meditation - using everything around us as the basis for mindfulness practice. Join us as he shares his vision of the opportunities and challenges the mindfulness world faces in the next five years.
We now live in a world where many people who try mindfulness training for the first time do so via an app. This rapid evolution of meditation into a primarily digital and primarily commercial experience is changing how we as a culture understand and practice mindfulness and in this session, Rohan Gunatillake will share his vision of the opportunities and challenges the mindfulness world faces in the next five years with respect to its relationship with technology. How is technology and digital culture changing mindfulness? What can the mindfulness community do to impact the technology industry in return? Why is so much of the mindfulness community ignorant of or in denial about technology? Is mindfulness as we know it in threat of extinction?
Based on his experience as a leading mindfulness entrepreneur and long-time insight meditation practitioner, Rohan will explore these questions in what will likely be a fascinating and provocative talk.
Speaker Bio
Rohan Gunatillake is best known as the creator of the best-selling meditation app buddhify. Through his company Mindfulness Everywhere and its products, Rohan is an advocate of what he calls urban or mobile meditation – using everything around us as the basis for mindfulness practice. Having worked in technology and innovation for over thirteen years for the likes of the Edinburgh Festivals and Accenture, he has also studied meditation for the same amount of time, and now combines his experience to design fresh ways to practice and understand mindfulness in a digital culture. Rohan is the author of Modern Mindfulness, a current trustee of the British Council and in 2012 was named by Wired magazine in their Smart List of 50 people who will change the world.
Thursday 12th October 2017, 4.30- 6pm (refreshments served from 4.30pm, talk starts promptly at 5pm)
The Meeting House, Oxford Quaker Meeting (Directions)
43 Saint Giles
Oxford
OX1 3LW
Event image photo credit: Ashley Baxter