In this 1.5-hour session, you’ll explore how art and mindfulness combined can support your mental health – helping you turn toward both your inner world and the world around you. Whether in a museum, healthcare setting, or in your daily life, engaging mindfully with art offers simple, powerful ways to foster presence, resilience, and connection.
Across cultures and centuries, in Buddhist teachings and other contemplative traditions, art has been a practice of care – offering inspiration when we feel stuck and standing as a companion in both joy and sorrow.
In this workshop, you’ll explore how art enriches our mindfulness practice. It complements attention and inquiry with accessible gateways into presence, inviting us to turn toward what’s here, to stay with experience, and to curiously explore all we encounter. In this way, engaging mindfully with art becomes a living practice of cultivating the pillars and attitudes of mindfulness.
Alongside Jolien, you’ll reflect on how this approach can support both individual wellbeing and collective flourishing, whether in museums, healthcare, education, or community life. All practices are guided in a trauma-sensitive and neuro-informed way. No art background required – only curiosity and openness.
Please bring paper and a few coloured pens or crayons.
Please note: This event is included, at no extra cost, as part of the Oxford Mindfulness Members’ Programme. Non–members are welcome to join the event at the relevant fee band
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