Our Common Humanity in a Divided World
Saturday 23 March and Sunday 24 March 2019

Sussex Mindfulness Centre and the Mindfulness Initiative are organising a mindfulness conference on the weekend of 23 and 24 March 2019 to coincide with the South African mindfulness conference. The theme of the UK-Ireland conference is Common Humanity in a Divided World, exploring how mindfulness and compassion allows us to connect with what we have in common as human beings, bridging the divides we see around us in the current climate.

The conference will include livestreamed keynote talks from the South African conference from Jon Kabat-Zinn and Ruth King and livestreamed guided mindfulness practices led by Rebecca Crane and Mark Williams.

The conference will be held across a number of sites in the UK and Ireland, using digital technology to connect together across UK and Ireland sites and connecting with the South African conference. In this way, we are using modern technologies to connect together across regions and across the globe as a way of sharing our common humanity. By hosting the UK-Ireland conference across a number of sites will allow the conference to be accessible and affordable for those who may otherwise struggle to attend a centrally located conference.