Jem is a Mindfulness Teacher and Teacher trainer and previous secondary school teacher based in Cornwall UK. He shares with us his insights from his discovery of meditation as a support for navigating out of depression in a Buddhist Monestry in Taiwan back to the UK when he discovered modern mindfulness courses for depression to becoming a teacher with a Masters in Mindfulness from Bangor University. 

In this episode we discuss:

🇹🇼 Jem's discovery of meditation whilst experiencing depression in a monastery in Taiwan. 

🩺 Being recommended to do a MBCT course by a doctor in UK. 

🧠 What MBCT is - Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Depression

👨‍🏫 From teaching mindfulness to teenagers to teaching adults 

🪷 Jem’s current practice of Samadhi and tuning into joy

📊 Scientific research into the effects of long term meditation practice and meditation for depression.

🌎 Why does meditation open us up to caring for the wider world?

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Some of the links we mentioned in the episode:

• Free meditation sessions with Oxford Mindfulness: https://oxfordmindfulness.org/live-online-meditations#teaching-schedule
• Jem’s next online Mindfulness for life course: https://oxfordmindfulness.org/course/mindfulness-for-life-10
• Rob Burbea talking about Samadhi Practice: https://dharmaseed.org/talks/12294/
• Brahma Viharas Book - The Boundless Heart by Christina Feldman