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Guest Speaker Event: from Boxing Gyms to Boardrooms – Making Mindfulness Accessible to All – Luke Doherty
Evening Event
Description
“How can mindfulness help me if I’m under pressure to stab someone to join a gang?” Mindful Peak Performance (MPP) was founded to answer this stark question and find ways to make mindfulness more accessible to disadvantaged young people.
Six years on, MPP has pioneered an award-winning approach to combining mindfulness with boxing that has been successfully delivered with a range of communities, including young people at risk gang of involvement, young and adult carers, ethnic minority groups and the LGBTQ+ community.
MPP, alongside the grassroots foundation, has also made mindfulness more accessible in elite sports and business through team away-days, 1:1 coaching and courses that fuse high performance with mental wellbeing.
In this talk, the founder of MPP, Luke Doherty, will share the origins of the organisation, how its approach was co-created with at-risk youth in some of London’s most deprived areas, and adapted for elite athletes and corporate leaders and teams. Luke will share key learnings around the importance of mindfulness, meeting people where they are and presenting mindfulness in ways that are relatable and relevant to their lives, work and socio-economic context while keeping the core essence alive.
The talk is free to access and is open to everyone with a general interest in this topic. Applications will close by an hour before the talk.
If you’d like to find out more about the topic please follow this link: https://www.mindfulpeakperformance.com/about
What will I do on this course?
It will comprise an informative talk and may include light mindfulness practice.Learning Outcomes
Luke will share key learnings around the importance of mindfulness, meeting people where they are and presenting mindfulness in ways that are relatable and relevant to their lives, work and socio-economic context while keeping the core essence alive.About the Teacher
Luke Doherty
A former England U-18s rugby player, Luke left elite sports to train in mindfulness and study how contemplative practices supports high performance and mental wellbeing. He now designs and delivers bespoke programmes for elite athletes, business leaders and teams, and grassroots communities. His education and training include a degree in Law and postgraduate diploma in Law & Community Leadership. He spent six years working and living in a Buddhist context, managing Breathing Space, a secular mindfulness charity where he also taught mindfulness-based approaches. During this time, he was on mindfulness-based retreats for six weeks each year and completed advanced mindfulness training qualifications from Breathworks and has also participated in mindfulness inquiry method training at Oxford Mindfulness Foundation.
