We are inviting applications to our 2018 Summer School Bursary Scheme and to our 2018 MBCT Accessibility Fund.

For the first time since 2004, when MBCT was first recommended by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, there is an England-wide training programme for MBCT teachers.  This represents the realisation of a significant part of the 2015 Mindful Nation UK recommendations around health and is something we hope will be continued and scaled up in coming years. 

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has decided to run a second consultation on its depression in adults guideline.  The consultation opened on 15th May 2018 and comments will be accepted until 5pm on Tuesday 12th June 2018.

In 2017 a partnership between the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, led by Professor Willem Kuyken, and Mente Aberta Centre, led by Professor Marcelo Demarzo, was initiated with the aim of implementing and propagating the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) in Brazil.

Following a review of its training offerings for aspiring MBCT teachers, the OMC has created a revised and updated training pathway.

Through our relationship with Mindfulness-Based Helping Association in Taiwan, the Oxford Mindfulness Centre is working to achieve its goal of training a new generation of mindfulness teachers across the world. Professors Willem Kuyken and Yen-Hui Lee reflect on offering MBCT training in Taiwan.

Dr Chris O’Neill, Psychologist with forty years’ experience of working in schools, and one of the architects of mindfulness training in schools “Dot b” cirriculum, gives some advice on teaching Mindfulness in the classroom

How can I find a well trained MBCT therapist?

A commentry on mindful organisations by Professor Michael West

A University of Oxford team based in the Department of Psychiatry has reached a major milestone in the timeline of a long-term project which will examine whether mindfulness in schools can improve adolescents’ mental health and resilience.