Mindfulness and Behavioural Insights

Rachel Lilley; Mark Whitehead; Gerald Midgley

doi:10.47061/jasc.v2i2.3857

Mindfulness and Behavioural Insights

Rachel Lilley, Mark Whitehead, Gerald Midgley

Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change November 30, 2022 DOI: 10.47061/jasc.v2i2.3857 (opens in new tab)

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Characteristics	Qualitative study Peer reviewed
Population	Welsh Civil Service participants
Intervention	Mindfulness-Based Behavioural Insights and Decision-Making (MBBI) programme
Topics	Meditation
Citations	19
Key findings	The authors argue that the MBBI programme, which fuses mindfulness with behavioural insights and draws on theories challenging automatic responses, can reshape mindfulness at work, steer behavioural insights training toward a more ethical and systemic direction, and build reflective capabilities among public servants.

Abstract

This paper explores the impacts of the Mindfulness-Based Behavioural Insights and Decision-Making (MBBI) programme. Combining mindfulness with behavioural insights instruction, the authors have developed the MBBI programme through a series of iterative trials over the last ten years. In addition to fusing mindfulness and behavioural insights, this programme also draws on the theories of autopoiesis, anticipatory systems, the predictive brain and constructed emotions, which all challenge the common assumption that behavioural and emotional responses are automatic (triggered by given stimuli and not open to change through self-reflection). The paper explores the use of the MBBI in the Welsh Civil Service. Employing evidence from in-depth interviews with participants and a SenseMaker analysis, it rethinks the role of mindfulness at work, repurposes the application of behavioural insights training toward a more ethical and systemic direction, and develops a reflective approach to capability building amongst public servants.

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The varieties of contemplative experience: A mixed-methods study of meditation-related challenges in Western Buddhists Western Buddhist meditation practitioners and experts in Theravāda, Zen, and Tibetan...	2017	Qualitative study with mixed-methods
The Effects of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction on Nurse Stress and Burnout Nurses in a hospital system	2004	Implementation study with mixed methods
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A qualitative study of mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy for depression Participants in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in a mental-health context	2001	Qualitative study	n = 7
Effortless awareness: using real time neurofeedback to investigate correlates of posterior cingulate cortex activity in meditators' self-report Meditators	2013	Qualitative study using grounded theory methodology

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