“Race and Trans and Nonbinary Inclusion in Mindfulness” Josetta (they/them), doctoral researcher at University of Aberdeen Email: j.malcolm.22@abdn.ac.uk May 2025 Welcome to an update on my PhD research on the experiences of Black and people of colour (BPOC) and trans and nonbinary (TNB) people in mindfulness spaces. This research aims to explore any barriers…
Wisdom and Modernity: Honouring the Past, Present and Future of Mindfulness. This month saw the publication of the article “Mahamudra and Mindfulness Series, Part 1: Mindfulness” in the Springer Mindfulness Journal by Mindfulness Association tutor and Buddhist monk Choden. This is the first of several articles by Choden that will be published in Mindfulness, an…
Josetta (they/them) October 2024 update The initial title and remit for my PhD was “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Mindfulness” to look across the 9 protected characteristics listed under The Equality Act 2010 (race and ethnicity, religion or belief, sex, disability, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, gender reassignment, age, marriage and civil partnership) [1].…
International Women’s Day is marked on Friday the 8th March, so it may be appropriate to share some of the issues related to gender that have been raised in my research on Equity Diversity and Inclusion (EDI), Secular Mindfulness and Social Justice.[1] A number of studies have shown that the practice of mindfulness on a…
Some Legal, Ethical and Moral Principles that Underpin the Impact of EDI and Mindfulness As I embark on the second year of studies into Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and Mindfulness, I have come across a number of people who have quite rightly questioned the relevance of EDI in mindfulness communities and in fact its…
PhD on Equity Diversity and Inclusion in Mindfulness: A Decolonial Approach – Part 2 EDI? And why a decolonial approach, what does that even mean? Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) are buzz words right now, which is timely and necessary to make mindfulness more inclusive, but how do we turn these ideas and aims into…
Introducing my PhD on Equity Diversity and Inclusion in Mindfulness: A Decolonial Approach By Josetta (they/them) Introduction: what am I doing?! Welcome to my first Mindfulness Association (MA) blog in which I introduce myself and my new PhD on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Mindfulness. It’s a part-time project alongside my equally soul-satisfying work…
As a mindfulness practitioner, facilitator and educator, writer and researcher, I welcome this opportunity to investigate a topic so close to my heart. Having studied mindfulness with the Mindfulness Association at Samye Ling and Holy Isle, I completed an MSc in Studies in Mindfulness (Aberdeen, 2021). My work focused on the uses of mindfulness skills…
Happy International Men’s Day! This day was celebrated on 19th November 2022, 1 therefore, I thought it fitting that my first blog shared here on issues relating to mindfulness and EDI should be on men. This day is a day to celebrate and to raise awareness about men’s health and wellbeing. The motivation behind this…