Mindful blinkers and biases: how and why we fail to optimise this transformative practice | SOAS

"Mindful blinkers and biases: how and why we fail to optimise this transformative practice" was given by Rachel Lilley, Aberystywth University (Presentation with Q&A) as part of the Round Table "Mindfulness in Public Discourse" which was held at the Centre of Buddhist Studies, SOAS University of London on 8 December 2018. Find out more at http://bit.ly/2T7ynoY
Many mindfulness advocates believe teaching attention, acceptance and compassion practices will change the world, improve politics, solve climate change and address inequalities and other contemporary challenges. But anyone who works in those areas knows this view is naïve, failing to acknowledge the enormous complexity the issues involve. We need a paradigm shift, to address the biases and blindspots of ourselves as trainers, our participants, and critically of the contexts and research fields we work in. We need to see what we are missing, challenge our ways of working, then we can truly support deep and transformative change at organisational, social, political and global levels.

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