Further Resources

The meditations we use for the mindfulness courses for staff and students are from Mindfulness: a Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World, by Mark Williams and Danny Penman. They are available freely here on SoundCloud, and also on Spotify and iTunes.

A large number of mindfulness practices recorded by the Oxford University Mindfulness Centre are available here.

We run twice-weekly lunchtime drop-ins, the guided practices of which are recorded and available here.

For after-hours mindfulness practice online, the Oxford Mindfulness Centre offers free weekly mindfulness sessions, Wednesdays 7-8pm, which it releases afterwards as a podcast.

Books

The coursebook for our student and staff courses is the bestselling Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World, by Mark Williams and Danny Penman. The book is based on Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy, and can be used to take yourself through a mindfulness programme at home.

The Mindful Way Workbook, by Teasdale, Williams and Segal, is a Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy workbook that you can take yourself through at home. 

Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction.

Mindfulness: Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology by Willem Kuyken and Christina Feldman.

Videos

Jon Kabat-Zinn, founder of MBSR

Mark Williams, co-founder of MBCT

Ron Siegel on mindfulness 

Richard Davidson on mindfulness and neuroscience

Chaplaincy video

An introductory video to mindfulness is available below.

Mindfulness-based Approaches research centres and professional organisations

Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, University of Wales, Bangor

Oxford Mindfulness Centre, University of Oxford

BAMBA, British Association for Mindfulness-based Approaches

The Mindfulness Network

For further mindfulness resources, please contact kitty.wheater@ed.ac.uk.