2017 Conference Booklet

The Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) presents the:

Mindfulness in Society
Conference

in

The Crowne Plaza in Chester, UK
8th - 10th July 2017

With pre-conference workshops on 7th and
post-conference workshops on 11th July 2017 

Early bird booking ends on 24th February 2017
 

CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS
•  Full-day of guided mindfulness practice with Rebecca Crane and Willem Kuyken
• Keynote talks from Richie Davidson, Willoughby Britton, Gregor Henderson plus a

Keynote Symposium offered jointly by Willem Kuyken and Paul Gilbert
• Pre-Dinner talk followed by Q&A session (via video link) with Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Full-day workshops with some of the best known authors and teachers in the

field including; Diane Reibel & Don McCown, Paul Gilbert, Willoughby Britton,
John Teasdale and Kate Malleson and Ross White
• Plus much more including a range of Workshops, Practice Sessions, Research
Talks and evening activities

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Feedback from previous conferences:

Wonderful and inspirational. A joy to be able to hear such an
experienced and wise meditation practitioner speak
Such humility, beautiful delivery
Thought provoking yet still simple and interesting - a good
reminder of what’s important.
Absolutely fabulous!
Fabulous speaker. Such a deep knowledge and experience
that shone out. Really inspiring
Inspiring! Beautifully presented.
Very intimate and personal journey into the heart. Touching
and deep.

Saturday keynote
speakers

Richard J Davidson Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D., is a renowned neuroscientist
and one of the world’s leading experts on the impact of
contemplative practices, such as meditation, on the brain.
He is best known for his ground breaking work studying
emotion and the brain. A friend and confidante of the Dalai
Lama, he is a highly sought after expert and speaker, leading
conversations on well-being on international stages such as
the World Economic Forum, where he serves on the Global
Council on Mental Health. Time Magazine named Davidson
one of “The 100 Most Influential People in the World” in 2006.

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2017 Conference Programme

Friday 7 July 2017: Pre Institute

0800-0930 Registration & Networking

When you register for Friday if you would like to attend all day; please select either the workshop with
  John Teasdale or the symposium with Kate Malleson & Ross White.  If you would like to attend in the

afternoon only then please select the workshop with Ken Lunn.

0930-1700 Understanding Mindfulness and Inner Awakening Symposium: Accessibility and Diversity in
John Teasdale Mindfulness Teaching and Practice

Kate Malleson and Ross White

1230-1400 Lunch

1400-1700 Managing participant data - your responsibilities when keeping mindfulness course records
Ken Lunn

1800-2000 Research Poster Session - Public Presentations

1800-2000 Thesis Presentations by graduates of Bangor University’s Masters in Mindfulness – Research Projects 
facilitated by Gemma Griffith

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Tuesday 11th July 2017

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Laboratory at Brown University Medical
School, Rhode Island USA

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Saturday 8 July 2017: Day 1

0700-0800 Optional morning practice
0800-0900
0900-0915 Registration and Networking
0915-0930
0930-1045 Conference Address
1045-1115 Professor John G Hughes, Vice Chancellor, Bangor University

1115-1315 Rebecca Crane – CMRP Director Welcomes conference delegates

1315-1430 Keynote: Cultivating well-being: Perspectives from Affective and Contemplative Neuroscience
Richard J Davidson
1430-1630
Break
1630-1700
1700-1815 Closing the Circle Finding ways to cross the How might mindfulness Mindfulness Practice
1845-1945 - Mindfulness with implementation gap. MBCT in transform society’s Session - Everyday
1900 - 2030 Parents, Carers, Children the NHS, results of the ASPIRE suffering – and how Mindfulness
2000-2200 and Teachers project and implementation could improved
guidance teaching (and teacher Trish Bartley
Katherine Weare, Eluned training) help? and Christina Shennan
Gold and colleagues Willem Kuyken and
Jo Rycroft-Malone Jamie Bristow and
guests

Lunch

Closing the Circle Symposium: Lost in Research Talks selected Mindfulness Practice
- Mindfulness with Translation? From efficacy from public research Session - Experiential
Parents, Carers, Children to effectiveness, economics, submissions Mindful Movement
and Teachers implementation and  workshop
dissemination in the science
Katherine Weare, Eluned of mindfulness based Helen Stephenson
Gold and colleagues interventions

Graham Meadows

Break

Keynote: Meditation-Related Difficulties: A Mixed Methods Approach

Willoughby Britton

Optional Evening Practice

At the book shop: opportunity for informal discussion and book signing with authors who are present at the
conference

Ceilidh Band & Dance with Aderyn Pryn

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Sunday 9 July 2017: Day 2 Chester, U.K

0700-0800 Optional morning practice
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Rebecca Crane Willem Kuyken

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Monday 10 July 2017: Day 3

0700-0800 Optional morning practice
0800-0920
0920-0930 Registration and Networking
0930-1045
1045-1115 Welcome

1115-1315 Rebecca Crane, CMRP Director

1315-1430 Keynote: Public Policy and Mindfulness: The evolving picture in Wellbeing and Public Health, and where to next?
Gregor Henderson
1430-1630
Break
1630-1700
1700-1815 The meaning, challenges Symposium: Mindfulness, Research Mindfulness Based
1815-1845 and successes of developing Compassion and Non- Presentations Practice Session -
1900-2100 integrity in the mindfulness field attachment. Assessment for selected Holding The Hands
2000-2100 Taravajra & Alison Evans research and teaching from public of Pleasure & Pain
Ruth Baer, Geetanjali research Jody Mardula
Basarkod, Jenny Guand, submissions & Sarah Silverton
Clara Strauss

Lunch

Symposium. MBCT: an update of World Cafe - Exploring Research Mindfulness
the current research evidence Learning from the Presentations Practice Session -
and its implications for clinical Conference selected Staying Mindful
practice Susannah Crump &  from public Annee Griffiths
Anne Speckens, Clara Strauss,  Barbara Reid research & David Shannon
Mira Cladder-Micus, submissions
Rhoda Schuling and
Marloes Huijbers

Break

Keynote Symposium: Mindfulness and Compassion - what do we know and not know?
Willem Kuyken & Paul Gilbert

Closing Reflections
Rebecca Crane, CMRP Director

Research Poster Session

Optional Evening Practice

Gregor Henderson Gregor is the National Lead for Wellbeing and Mental
Health with Public Health England, a national agency
responsible for protecting and improving the public’s
health. Previously, he was an adviser to the Department
of Health, following his leadership of a national public
mental health programme for the National Mental Health
Development Unit in England from 2008 to 2011

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needed to increase accessibility for all groups. We will explore what it means to
teach and practice mindfulness in different social and cultural contexts and in
ways which are inclusive. The session will draw on the experiences of a number
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Friday 7th July 2017

Full day pre-conference
workshop with: John Teasdale

Understanding Mindfulness and
Inner Awakening

It has been suggested that there is a and ii) the presence of a universal pattern
need for a Universal Dharma.  By this is of organization in nature, and the mind, in
meant finding a new way to talk about which parts are integrated into wholes.
and understand the origins and healing Taken together, these ideas suggest that
of human suffering, and the possibilities the mind has a natural potential for healing
of a radically different way of being in the (making whole), which mindfulness can
world, without using the language of any help realize (make real).
particular contemplative tradition.   In this
talk I will explore how far a framework From the workshop, participants will gain:

of understanding that played a key role 1) a way to understand mindfulness that
in the development of Mindfulness- will offer answers to questions such as:
based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) can be How does holding a difficult experience
usefully extended to help us understand in awareness transform it? Why is
mindfulness more generally, and the mindfulness of the body so important?
possibilities of further inner awakening.
2) an understanding of the difference
Using didactic, interactive, and experiential between mindfulness and awakening
approaches, we will explore the interface
between two foundational ideas: i) 3) insights into how their own practice
the existence of two distinct worlds of and teaching of mindfulness might be
meaning, one conceptual, the other holistic, enriched.

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A half day pre-conference
workshop with:
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in very different situations. The presenters will share activities and practices

specifically developed for their classes. Attendees will have the chance to

practice and reflect on these in dyads, small groups, and the whole group,

leading to sharing of their own emerging ideas and practices.

The conference is open for registrations.

For further information and to register please visit the Bangor CMRP

https://www.bangor.ac.uk/mindfulness/conference.php.en

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Tuesday 11th July 2017 Paul Gilbert

on Tuesday 11th Jul

A full day post-conference
workshop with
Paul Gilbert

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The workshop is particularly relevant to mindfulness-based teache

a day long workshop for mindfulnessto the frameworks of understanding that have developed within
Focused Therapy (CFT). These frameworks also inform other m
based approaches and so will support practitioners to reflect on the

teachers

The workshop is particularly relevant to mindfulness-based teachers. It will
offer an introduction to the frameworks of understanding that have developed
within the context of Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT). These frameworks
also inform other mindfulness and compassion based approaches and so will
support practitioners to reflect on their work in neTwhwe acoysn.ference is open for registrati

For further information and to register please visit the B
https://www.bangor.ac.uk/mindfulness/confer

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The programme is now complete and we
are open for registrations. 

We are expecting this conference to
reach maximum occupancy

therefore early booking is advised.

Please visit the CMRP website for the conference
programme and how to register.

www.bangor.ac.uk/mindfulness/conference.php.en

Conference Administration team:
✆ 01248 38 2498

 [email protected]

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