ABSTRACT
In which you have the opportunity to imaginatively participate in the second day of an intensive course on empowering mindfulness for women, in which it becomes clear that mindfulness practices need to be carefully curated for individuals according to their backgrounds, needs and situations. I invite you to further enter into the evocative accounts of student-teacher interactions and experience, drawing on your intellect, intuition and what you feel in your heart and body as you read. The theme for this day is ‘safeguarding mindfulness’, and I hope you can resonate with some of the experiences related by the students in this course. They are fictionalised but based on real teaching and learning experiences. If you have had any unsatisfactory, unsuccessful or challenging experiences with mindfulness as a student or a professional who brings mindfulness to your students or clients, I encourage you to take care of yourself as you read and take regular breaks so that you are able to extract the benefits from this material, gathered from many years of practicing teaching and researching mindfulness and traumasensitive topics in higher education and community settings.
