Political Wellness Should be the Priority

Making legislation and politicising through a wellness lens is a boost for politics as well as the politicians themselves. A win win all round. So why are some sceptical?

I discovered through Jemima Kelly’s thought-provoking opinion piece in the Financial Times this week that a report recently published by The Mindfulness Initiative, a policy institute which has been monitoring the experiences of 300 British politicians who have undertaken mindfulness training since 2013, have found that participants greatly benefitted f…