Event Partners
Helping educators and young people flourish since 2009
Mindfulness in Schools Project (MiSP) is a charity and international community of mindfulness educators united in our commitment to the wellbeing of the next generation, as well as the adults caring for them.
With a decade’s worth of experience, MISP is the most established provider of mindfulness training and curricula for educational and youth-related settings. Our courses are written by teachers, for teachers and succeed consistently with all types of children and young people, according to both the research evidence and overwhelmingly positive feedback.
BAMBA

BAMBA is the UK’s primary professional body of mindfulness practitioners, teachers and teacher training organisations. Our mission is to promote safe, ethical and inclusive practices in the field of evidence-based secular mindfulness teaching in the UK. Visit BAMBA.org.uk to find out more.

THE MINDFULNESS NETWORK
The Mindfulness Network is a registered charity. We serve the mindfulness community and general public through supervision, retreats and training courses delivered both in-person and via our online platform - the Mindfulness Network Community site. The Mindfulness Network Community Friends (MNCF) is an initiative to engage the wider mindfulness community and reach new audiences through donation-based events and opportunities to practice.
Led by a Committee of Volunteers, supported by the Mindfulness Network, we work together to run a programme of events and inspiring content. By developing mindfulness and compassion both internally and through our services, the Mindfulness Network has the intention to reduce/alleviate human suffering, promote well-being and create the conditions in which people, communities and the planet, can flourish. We aim to bring together highly-trained mindfulness-based supervisors, retreat leaders and teacher trainers who all work within Good Practice Standards set out by the British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches (BAMBA).
THE MINDFULNESS INITIATIVE

The Mindfulness Initiative provides the secretariat to the Mindfulness All-Party Parliamentary Group. The initiative works with legislators around the world who practice mindfulness and helps them to make trainable capacities of heart and mind serious considerations of public policy. We investigate the benefits, limitations, opportunities and challenges in assessing and implementing mindfulness and compassion training and educate leaders, service-commissioners and the general public based on these findings. Visit www.themindfulnessinitiative.org.uk to find out more.
SUSSEX MINDFULNESS CENTRE

We aim to improve the wellbeing and mental health of all people who can benefit from mindfulness. We do this by running mindfulness and compassion programmes, training teachers, and conducting research. Visit https://sussexmindfulnesscentre.nhs.uk/ to find out more.
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THE MINDFULNESS AND CANCER PROJECT
The Mindfulness and Cancer project is designed for people with cancer, and for health and care workers who want to include mindfulness as a resource to support their patients/clients. There are three collections of video, audio and text packages that are all drawn from the Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Cancer (MBCT-Ca) program, which has been taught to people with cancer for over 20 years in different parts of the world. Two MBCT-Ca books have been published – one for mindfulness teachers (Bartley, 2012) and one for people with cancer (Bartley, 2017).
EAMBA

eamba is an international association bringing together Mindfulness Teachers’ Associations. The eamba member associations aim to connect, inspire and support each other and their local members by promoting the quality of teaching evidence-based mindfulness programs as well as of the quality of teacher training. Eamba Members and Affiliates contribute to more sustainable inner and outer worlds by developing mindfulness and compassion in European societies in all their diversity. https://www.eamba.net/
MINDFULNESS WALES

Mindfulness Wales is a CIO [charity number 1193146] committed to working together with partners, mindfulness teachers and practitioners to bring mindfulness into all sectors of our communities and help to weave mindfulness into the life and work of Wales. Our vision is to share mindfulness to enable Wales to become a more compassionate, kinder, fairer and more sustainable society. We are a central hub for mindfulness in Wales, seeking to support, network, collaborate, share, co-create and inspire.
JOIN US! BE A PARTNER/SPONSOR
Get in touch if you wish to be a Partner of the Manchester Mindfulness Festival! We are particularly keen to give local charities an opportunity to raise their profile at our event. We also welcome Sponsors and look forward to exploring a responsible collaboration.