Mindfulness and Wellbeing
Mindfulness and wellbeing have become terms that have become almost universal in their usage in everyday parlance. In recent years, there has been an ever increasing awareness of mindfulness-based approaches to stress reduction, along with well documented scientific evidence on its benefits towards supporting personal and organisational wellbeing.
Whilst ‘wellbeing’ may be the more accessible and readily accepted term, mindfulness, on the other hand, seemingly needs a little more of a helping hand in removing preconceived veils to reveal its simplicity and efficacy.
This paper aims to elaborate and explore the current state of wellbeing support available to aid workers within the humanitarian sector. In doing so, it will also endeavour to unpack the concept of wellbeing itself, an often vague and undefined subject matter, that itself, also often manifests in an often vague and undefined subject matter, that itself, also often manifests in an equally vague and undefined strategy within our organisations.