Our conferences form an important part of the UK’s national mindfulness event calendar. It’s a must-attend event for anybody interested in the latest research, innovations and developments in mindfulness and mindful self-compassion.
Can we heal our healthcare system? Caring for our doctors with evidence based practice
Sussex Mindfulness Centre is hosting a one-day medical mindfulness conference in Brighton on 6 November 2026. The conference brings together doctors, medical leaders, and educators to reflect on individual and systemic approaches to wellbeing. You can find out more and book tickets here.
You can find out about previous conferences below.
Previous conferences
Compassion: The Power to Transform
Our twelfth conference has taken place on 15 May 2026, and explored the theme of compassion and how it can help to transform lives and wider societies. All the day’s content, including talks, pictures and videos, will be added here shortly. Keep an eye on this page to see the updates.
Discovering Joy in Troubled Times
“Discovering Joy in Troubled Times” was the theme of our eleventh annual conference, which took place in Brighton on 9 May 2025. Mark Williams, author of bestselling “Mindfulness: Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World” was one of our keynote speakers who helped us explore this theme.
Future of Mindfulness
The conference, which took place in May 2024, was on the Future of Mindfulness. Many attendees stayed for the all-day retreat the following day. If you missed it, you can read short summaries of the talks and watch the keynote speeches here.
What is Mindful Culture?
The previous conference in March 2023 asked the question “What is mindful culture?” Speakers set out to answer this question. You can get a flavour of the discussions of this conference from this blog post and see some of the keynote presentations here.
Earlier conferences
You can find out about earlier conferences before 2023 on this page where some presentations or video recordings of keynotes speakers, such as Caroline Lucas MP, are still available.