Event Partners
HART KNOWE TRUST
Helping People to Help Others. We support education and training to improve the quality of individuals' own lives and enable them to share the value of what they have learnt with others. Visit hartknowe.org to learn more.
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).
BODHi COLLEGE
In-depth exploration of the early Buddhist texts for today.
Bodhi College was founded by experienced teachers Christina Feldman, Akincano Weber, Stephen Batchelor and John Peacock. It offers the unique opportunity to both study the Buddha’s teachings and practice the practical applications such as mindfulness and meditation in community, without being attached to a particular doctrine or ‘religion’.
Our inspiration stems from the Dharma as found in the earliest Buddhist texts, which underlies many of the contemporary forms of meditation– such as mindfulness and vipassana.
OXFORD MINDFULNESS
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We're a not-for-profit organisation helping people achieve greater well-being and improved mental health through research-based mindfulness.
We’ve partnered with the University of Oxford since 2007 to develop easy-to-understand programmes using Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), which combines mindfulness and psychological science.
We work with organisations and universities around the world to deliver the mindfulness programmes developed through this partnership, supporting our vision of a world with universal access to mindfulness training.
MINDFULNESS iN SCHOOLS PROJECT (MiSP)
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.
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.
IMISA
IMISA, the Institute for Mindfulness South Africa, is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting contemporary mindfulness practices in southern Africa established in 2007.
Our work is centred on training and supporting mindfulness practitioners and communities in southern Africa. Our offerings weave together trauma-informed practices, indigenous wisdom, and embodied mindfulness to meet the needs of a diverse and evolving global mindfulness field.
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.