Podcasts

During the International Mental Health Week, the UN Human Rights Office Wellbeing Unit’s Mindfulness Initiative hosted an insightful event on “Mindfulness in UN Work and Diplomacy.” The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk and Jon Kabat-Zinn, creator of the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program, discussed how mindfulness can enhance resilience, well-being, and effectiveness for UN staff and diplomats, benefiting both their work and the communities they serve.

Jon and Rick discuss mindfulness, creativity, technology, humanity, and more, in celebration the 30th anniversary edition of Jon’s book, Wherever You Go, There You Are. 

On the practicalities of starting a meditation practice, being fully present with no agenda, and letting go of “the story of me.”

How to be present in any moment, what awareness really means, how to practice radical self love, how to govern yourself through meditation, and how to give your heart back to yourself.

Dan and Jon discuss the origins of MBSR and its relation to pain relief, pain vs. suffering and the accessibility of awareness.

A wide-ranging conversation about what it means to be mindful in the attention economy, why mindfulness has skyrocketed in popularity, and how to think about the commercialization of an ancient practice.