Thursday, 19 March 2026 (12:00 - 13:00)

Quality Improvement Network Meet Up

Are We Starting Mindfulness in the Wrong Place?

A Knowledge Mobilisation Project: Exploring Whether Nature Can Make Mindfulness More Accessible for People Living with Long-Term Health Conditions

Mindfulness is often recommended to people living with long-term health conditions to support mental health and wellbeing and encourage positive behaviour change. Yet many people find traditional mindfulness practices difficult to engage with or sustain.

In this QIN Meet Up, Julie Derwig, Knowledge Mobilisation Fellow with the NIHR ARC North West London, will introduce a project exploring a nature-based mindfulness intervention developed in partnership with London Zoo.

The presentation will outline the thinking behind the project and why natural environments may offer a more accessible starting point for mindfulness practice. Julie will also describe how this idea is being translated from evidence into practice within an NHS setting.

This will be a short presentation followed by discussion about the wider question of what role nature might play in supporting health and wellbeing for people living with long-term health conditions, and the opportunities and challenges of introducing nature-based approaches within NHS care.

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