Mindfulness Centre Meditation Center

The Oxford Mindfulness Centre

Is an international centre of excellence within Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry. We work with partners around the world to prevent depression and enhance human potential through the therapeutic use of mindfulness.

About the OMC

The Oxford Mindfulness Centre (OMC) was founded in 2008 within Oxford University’s Department of Psychiatry. It draws on Oxford’s 800 year-old tradition of world-renowned scholarship and science, and the latest evidence-based medicine.

Vision

A world without the devastating effects of depression; where mindfulness enables greater understanding, compassion, wisdom and responsiveness.

Research

The OMC Team does ground-breaking clinical and neuroscience research on mindfulness. It assesses the efficacy of different forms of mindfulness practice for different types of problem, and is building up a peer-reviewed body of knowledge about what forms of mindfulness intervention best suits which type of person.

Working with patients

OMC applies mindfulness techniques to patients with mental and physical problems and monitors outcomes. Its main focus is on serious recurrent depression and its consequences. Patients are taught how to apply mindfulness to forestall, minimise or alleviate recurrent episodes of their illness.

Training staff

Practitioners from various disciplines (e.g. psychologists, teachers, physicians) are taught mindfulness so they can apply them to people for whom they have a duty of care.

Dissemination

OMC works to spread knowledge of its findings to as wide an audience as possible. There is great potential that widespread availability will have a beneficial effect on the general population, not just those who are diagnosed unwell.