What to expect?
Launching our Speaker Series for 2025/26 Caroline Lucas, writer, campaigner and former Leader of the Green Party for England and Wales and Richard Burnett, co-founder of MiSP will be talking about the role for mindfulness to deepen our appreciation of the natural world, motivate us to work harder to protect it, and give us the resilience to work with the environmental crisis.
There will also be an opportunity for Caroline to answer your questions. If you personally have a question for Caroline about mindfulness and the environment, please email support@mindfulnessinschools.org one week before the event (i.e. by Thu 20th November 2025). We will try to ask as many of these as possible during the session.
The session is set to provide thought provoking and inspiring reflections from a key contributor in the field. It will be a chance to come together as a global community. We warmly welcome everyone, whether you are already familiar with MiSP or completely new!
Who is invited?
The webinar is open to ALL so please do invite colleagues and friends.
We are very grateful to Caroline and Richard for donating their time to support this MiSP fundraising Speaker Series.
About the Speaker
Caroline Lucas Caroline Lucas was the UK’s first Green Party Member of Parliament between 2010 and 2024, and before that served for 10 years in the European Parliament. She has also served as both Leader and Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales. She is a writer, campaigner and keynote speaker, with a particular interest in the role of education and the arts in mobilising action on the climate and nature emergencies. She has won numerous awards for her work: in 2020 she topped the list of the BBC Radio Woman’s Hour One Planet Power List of influential activists, educators and campaigners, and in 2024 the UK’s largest sustainable business awards scheme presented her with its Lifetime Achievement Award.
She is Co-President of the European Movement, and a Trustee of the Towner Art Gallery in Eastbourne. Her latest book, a Sunday Times bestseller, is Another England: How to Reclaim our National Story.
Richard Burnett
Richard is co-founder of Mindfulness in Schools Project and co-wrote .b, as well as other MiSP curricula. He is a teacher at Tonbridge School, the first school in the UK to put mindfulness on the curriculum, and has taught mindfulness to well over a thousand adolescents, as well as to many school staff and school parents.
Richard's TEDx talk helped define the landscape of mindfulness in education and he was an expert witness at the All Party Parliamentary Group that led to Mindful Nation UK.
This event is offered for free. We are a registered charity and if you would like to make a donation you can include one when buying your ticket. It is entirely optional, but this additional support can make a big difference towards our charitable efforts.
