The OMF provides insight on research, training, and the latest news and information across the field of mindfulness.

New Mindfulness Practice App and Research Project, by Christine Parsons

New Mindfulness Practice App and Research Project, by Christine Parsons

A new app for Mindfulness teachers to use with their students may help answer important questions about the frequency and timing of student practice. Find out how you can get involved.

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Reflections on ACCESS MBCT’s First Year of Service, by Zindel Segal

Reflections on ACCESS MBCT’s First Year of Service, by Zindel Segal

Zindel Segal looks back on the first year of ACCESS MBCT, considers how the membership has grown and looks ahead to plans for the website's future.

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Mindfulness without Borders – trauma adapted mindfulness for displaced people

Mindfulness without Borders – trauma adapted mindfulness for displaced people

A project which explores whether a trauma adapted mindfulness skills training could offer a new approach to improving the well-being of displaced people. The project was funded by the OMC Access Fund.

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MBCT Accessibility Fund 2019 – open for applications

MBCT Accessibility Fund 2019 – open for applications

The Oxford Mindfulness Centre Accessibility Fund is now accepting applications for 2019.

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2018 MBCT Training in Japan

2018 MBCT Training in Japan

Tetsuji Ietsugu, Ikuko Yamaguchi, and Fusako Koshikawa report on the recent Module 1 and Module 4 training delivered by the OMC in Japan.

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Is Mindfulness Relevant to Medical Education? by Dr Lucy Harrison

Is Mindfulness Relevant to Medical Education? by Dr Lucy Harrison

Good doctors are empathic, compassionate and reflective. They are able to take care of others as well as themselves. Yet, there is little agreement on how medical schools encourage these qualities. Dr Lucy Harrison explores the role of mindfulness in training doctors.

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Mindfulness Courses for Staff in Higher Education

Mindfulness Courses for Staff in Higher Education

The Oxford Mindfulness Centre has recently launched a new initiative to offer tailored mindfulness classes to staff working in the higher education setting. Ruth Collins writes about workplace mindfulness and the OMC's plans to take the initiative to staff in universities across the UK.

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Do you aspire to teach MBCT?

Do you aspire to teach MBCT?

The Oxford Mindfulness Centre is now accepting applications for our Foundational Training in the fortnightly format. Professor Ruth Baer explains what's involved and Annemette Frosh, one of last year's students, shares her experience of the course.

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Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore wins Royal Society Prize

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore wins Royal Society Prize

Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, one of the principal investigators on the MYRIAD project, has been awarded the 2018 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize for Inventing Ourselves: The Secret Life of the Teenage Brain.

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The Oxford Mindfulness Centre Summer School 2018

The Oxford Mindfulness Centre Summer School 2018

Photographs from this year's OMC Summer School on the theme of 'Compassion in Action'

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