About 120 MPs and 180 peers have taken part in mindfulness courses over the last decade
showed it did not appear to improve the mental health of teenagers. Many pupils were bored by the course and so did not practise it at home. One of the study’s leaders, Prof Mark Williams, said “the idea of mindfulness doesn’t help – it’s the practice that matters”.
“Mindfulness is not a panacea, either in terms of the contribution it can make to politicians’ individual wellbeing, or to their working environment,” said Ruth Ormston, director of theInitiative, a charity that supports the all-party parliamentary group on mindfulness. “But the accounts highlighted in our report do suggest that this evidence-based psychological training provides essential support for many politicians to carry out their roles more effectively.
Clive Lewis, of Labour, said that mindfulness helped him to let go of things that had not gone to plan.Tim Loughton, the MP who is co-chair of the all party group and who has previously described, said mindfulness helps politicians “disagree better” and become better colleagues “in a highly divisive and stressful environment”. He said if he is debating some else from the mindfulness class “the level of debate actually improves”.
“It helps me to draw a line under something and move on to the next thing, with fewer self-critical thoughts sabotaging my future performance,” he said.
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