
Mindfulness, heartfulness and compassion: a dialogue with faith leaders (Masterclass)
July 4, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm BST
£20

A one-day symposium in Brighton exploring the roots of contemporary mindfulness, heartfulness and compassion-based practices. This day is being hosted by the Sussex Mindfulness Centre, Heartfulness UK and the Brighton & Hove Interfaith Contact group.
What is the symposium about?
Contemporary mindfulness, heartfulness and compassion-based practices derive predominantly from established spiritual pathways or religious traditions. However, in the secularised workplaces in which they are often delivered, the religion has been necessarily stripped away from the practices.
While this makes them more accessible to Westernised consumers, the danger is that by taking them out of their contexts and communities these practices may become technical, individualised and self-serving, losing their deeper meaning and their more profound capacity for change and connection.
We need to be careful that our secularised inclusiveness does not exclude the diversity offered by religious and spiritual traditions and the people affiliated to them, on whose shoulders these contemporary practices rest. Increasingly, we recognise that passing off something that belongs to the wisdom of often non-Western, non-white cultures as a new, scientific discovery can be unacceptable cultural appropriation.
Who is this for?
Anyone interested in the roots of mindfulness. Everyone is welcome, from any faith or none
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