Inspiration mindfulness - Centrum voor Mindful Leven

Mindfulness is an ancient training with roots in Buddhism. However, the scientific basis of MBSR was laid much later, by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Below you find sources of inspiration about mindfulness.

Introduction to MBSR

The guide to happiness according to the Dalai Lama

Florence Meleo-Meyer: A taste of Mindfulness

"A Cloud Never Dies": documentary of Thich Nhat Hanh

The Healing Power of Mindful Parenting

The science of mindfulness

About the meditation form Vipassana

Will Kabat-Zinn: Nature of awareness

Melissa Myozen Blacker: The World is in Trouble

Gregory Kramer: A Wonderful and Workable Whole Life Path

Mindfulness in education - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Applied Mindfulness in Business and Life: Jon Kabat-Zinn & Melissa Daimler

My Year Of Living Mindfully - Trailer (Feature documentary)

In the media

Interview Marisa Hoslet ‘Staying internally calm when the world is wobbling’ – Training mindfulness on the beach, Avansa,2022 (finished)

‘Vipassana met insight Dialogue’, a testimonial from Marisa in 2009 on p. 12.

The story of my father’s incurable illness and how mindfulness helped him, 2014

Experiences of a participant with Multiple Sclerose:’Mindfulness and rumination’,2014(Text in Dutch)

Research

MBSR versus medication for the treatment of anxiety disorders,2022

Effects of Insight Dialogue on mindfulness, Self-compassion and psychological well-being, 2022

Master’s dissertation Marisa Hoslet about the influence of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on anxiety, depression, life quality and coping for CFS patients, 2007

Research at the VUB with the Doctoral Schools in times of corona, 2022

Research on the effect of an online mindfulness-based intervention versus in-person training, 2022

Literature

Mindful yoga movement and meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Mindful Diplomacy: A Pathway to Peace, online essay by Abigail Somma

Article ‘The dark side of meditation’, Eos (text in Dutch)

Article ‘New VUB research reveals: teachers have increased risk of burnout’, Het Nieuwsblad (text in Dutch)

Interview with Gregory Kramer ‘Peace in interpersonal relationships’, 2025

Blog Margaux Geeroms (33): “Mindful living also means being mild to yourself”

Videos

This award-winning documentary film made by two Israeli filmmakers is about the prisoners of Tihar Jail, the largest prison in South Asia, and tells the story of the meditation form Vipassana in Tihar. This meditation form is used in MBSR training programs.

Thich Nhat Hahn taught me the technique of mindful walking. He talks about it in this video.

This man also taught me the technique of mindful eating, illustrated in this video.

I learned about mindfulness in relationships from Gregory Kramer, Insight Dialogue

Interesting links

Discover more about BRUCC (Brussels University Consultation Center).

Prof. Chris Schotte: COVID-19: dealing with fear and stress(in Dutch)

VUB, a compassionate university

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Introduction to MBSR

The guide to happiness according to the Dalai Lama

Florence Meleo-Meyer: A taste of Mindfulness

"A Cloud Never Dies": documentary of Thich Nhat Hanh

The Healing Power of Mindful Parenting

The science of mindfulness

About the meditation form Vipassana

Will Kabat-Zinn: Nature of awareness

Melissa Myozen Blacker: The World is in Trouble

Gregory Kramer: A Wonderful and Workable Whole Life Path

Mindfulness in education - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Applied Mindfulness in Business and Life: Jon Kabat-Zinn & Melissa Daimler

My Year Of Living Mindfully - Trailer (Feature documentary)

In the media

Research

Literature

Videos

Interesting links

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