Mark Williams on Mindfulness

SUNDAY 5 JUNE 2011, 11.30AM

 

Is mindfulness the answer to all our prayers? The benefits are compelling: it’s free, you can do it anytime, anywhere, and it’s been scientifically proven to work. It is recognised by those in and out of the health profession as a useful tool for generally improving our mental wellbeing, as well as dealing with more serious issues such as depression or anxiety disorders.

 

Professor Mark Williams, a leading authority on mindfulness, will take to our pulpit to explore the science behind it and look at its practical application in everyday life. He will take us through the myths, realities, and benefits of meditation, and look at how such practices can help us to live lives of greater presence, productive and peace.

 

Mark Williams is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Wellcome Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.

His new book Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world written with Danny Penman will be published in May by Piatkus. He is also author of best-selling: The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Guilford, 2007; co-authored with John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn)