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Mindfulness is changing in a rapidly changing world. These shifts seem to be affecting us all. Clear Mind International has been re-focusing its attention to where we feel it's most needed. We're being more explicit about our role in social mindfulness. The Director of CMI, Cathy-Mae Karelse, explains why ... Here Cath explains more about CMI's mission and vision, and how mindfulness can support social transformation. CMI has taken a pause in recent [...]
Responding Mindfully to the Crises We Face
We currently find ourselves immersed in the unprecedented escalation of the climate and ecological crisis, rising social inequalities, and, in the UK, prospects of a post-Brexit recession. This is unfolding against a backdrop of the culture of individualism, which is wrapped [...]
Reflections on Ramadan
To celebrate Eid with our Muslim brothers and sisters, CMI invited comment on the significance of Ramadan. Ramadan is a time to recharge the body both physically and spiritually. It is more than just one of the five compulsory beliefs [...]
Mindfulness is a political act
On Saturday 10 June, 18 participants from diverse backgrounds and from across the country gathered with three facilitators to workshop diversity, inclusion and social justice in the mindfulness world. We worked together to understand the ways in which mindfulness spaces [...]
The work of love, the power of community
We live in a world that is fractured, and it seems to get more so with each new event that [...]
Closing a mindfulness course
by Tracey Cramond During the final group meet on an 8 week course or teacher training we consciously acknowledge the [...]
A first retreat – finding deeper practice
by Tracey Cramond “Curiouser and curiouser!” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I was apprehensive about my first mindfulness silent [...]
CMI weekend: The Mindfulness Retinue & Neuroscience
by Daran Crush Last November we spent a glorious, engaging and stimulating couple of days looking deeply at the family within [...]
Mindfulness Teacher Training Level 2
by Daran Crush A students view And so at the beginning of March Mindfulness Teacher Training Level 2 began. Getting [...]
Thoughts are just… well, thoughts!
by Deena Mann Whilst having a recent de-clutter, I came across a photo of my 15 year-old-self. As I looked [...]