Cranfield University to Host 2014 Mindfulness at Work Conference
Cranfield University in Bedfordshire will host the 2014 Mindfulness at Work Conference on September 23rd. The conference aims to break new ground by evaluating the evidence base for mindfulness in the workplace from scientific, business, and practitioner perspectives.
“We have an unprecedented line up of 29 international thought-leaders who will share their cutting-edge work on the practice of organizational mindfulness. Our vision for this conference is to aggregate and appraise these distinct perspectives, enabling us to establish the most holistic evidence base for mindfulness at work to date,”says Dr. Jutta Tobias (Lecturer in Performance Management at the School of Management), who is organizing the conference with Juliet Adams of mindfulnet.org. “Mindfulness is an increasingly hot topic in the international business press, and there is a great appetite in the UK and elsewhere to engage with it and explore its benefits, as well as growing interest from many different stakeholders in bringing mindfulness into organizations.” Continue reading…
