How Mindfulness Wales Began

Then First Minister, Mark Drakeford met with mindfulness practitioners and researchers in March 2019, instigating further work on embedding mindfulness and behavioural insights through a living strategy or ‘strategy-in-practice’ in Wales.  Mark was the first national leader to address a national mindfulness gathering when he addressed the Wales Mindfulness Network Conference in the Temple of Peace on in November 2019.  That same week, the Minister for Education launched mindfulness guidance to support implementation of the new curriculum in Wales.

Members of this group went on to form Mindfulness Wales as a Charitable Incorporated Organisation in 2021 – and here we are!