S01E13 - Mark Leonard - Director of Mindfulness Connected - Social Mindset

On this podcast, I spoke with Mark Leonard, who is the creator and designer of several mindfulness courses, 

Mark's intriguing mind and personality, who offers an insightful and pragmatic view of applying mindfulness to make the world a better place. 

Mark is a leading practitioner of 'social mindfulness,' which makes mindfulness a force for change. 

He has developed his ideas by combining biological systems thinking with a contemporary understanding of mindfulness as cognitive therapy. 

He helped to establish the Oxford Mindfulness Centre in 2008 and went on to adapt therapeutic mindfulness as a workplace training. 

He saw that the social learning experience played a key role and developed a short mindfulness program as organizational development based on this insight. 

The curriculum of this program, Mindfulness-Based Organizational Education, is the first program of its kind, recognized by the British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches and the Dutch Mindfulness Teachers' Association.