HuffPost: Cutting Through the Corporate Mindfulness Hype

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Cutting Through the Corporate Mindfulness Hype

Co-authored with Edwin Ng, 
Lecturer, School of Communications and Creative Arts, Deakin University

There has been a chorus of recent articles touting the benefits of mindfulness at work. But have they really distinguished between fact and fad, science from ideology, and the risks versus the benefits with regards to mindfulness at work? Part One addresses how the corporate mindfulness movement draws from the dubious discipline of “management science,” which historically has been a political endeavor to secure and legitimate the interests of corporations. Part Two will clarify that we are not dismissing the potential of mindfulness as a disruptive technology against prevailing systems, and invite readers to consider how they might use mindfulness to experiment with critical self-care.