Research
During the summer term of 2007, and in collaboration with Professor Felicia Huppert of the Well-being Institute at Cambridge University, Tonbridge and Hampton Schools took part in a controlled trial of mindfulness training. The final version of this was published in The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2010, 5 (4), 264-274.
In 2009, Richard Burnett wrote a paper considering what is lost and what is gained in the teaching of mindfulness as a secular discipline rather than a Buddhist one. Click here to read Mindfulness in Schools: Learning Lessons from the Adults, Secular and Buddhist. This was published in The Buddhist Studies Review, 2011, 28.1, 79-120.
In 2010, following a teaching of the 8 week MISP curriculum, pupils at Tonbridge School were asked to give their feedback on the course. Click here for a summary of the results and extensive, unedited feedback on what they liked (and didn't like!) about the course.
In 2011 Sarah Hennelly's Master's degree research into the effects of .b in Oxfordshire secondary schools established that there were significant effects on mindfulness, well-being and resilience, and that effects at six months were greater than immediate effects. Students experienced increases in self-awareness and self-regulation, self-determiantion and self-efficacy. Click here to read Sarah's paper.
In 2012, led by Professor Willem Kuyken at Exeter University and in collaboration with Professors Felicia Huppert (Cambridge) and Katherine Weare (Exeter), a study of the effects of .b mindfulness training on 300 adolescents in six schools began. We anticipate findings from this research being available by the end of the year.
