Christine and Tracy had the opportunity to present the MPA story at the National Rural Mental Health Conference this week. It’s a great story: a tiny business started in NW Tassie, when two incredible women had a great idea, and got backing by Primary Health Tasmania back in 2017.

Then 2000 Tasmanians gave the time and made the effort to participate in the courses, and let us know how significantly the skills of mindfulness made positive changes in their lives.

This is the story we told the conference; and between the lines we were saying: if this has been so helpful for so many over the last 9 years across the population, then maybe, just maybe, it might be a good idea to continue here, and wherever in Australia the evidence-based mindfulness courses can be taught, so that even more people can learn the skills that enable us to meet the challenges of modern life with skill and confidence.

We told them about the Research we are undertaking, with the hope to add to the evidence base for Mindfulness skills journeying with us for the long term – maybe for life. So if you haven’t had a chance to complete the survey, don’t forget to jump online here and help us out. We hope to be able to present the initial results at another conference next year!

We also heard many presentations that affirmed the importance of delivering mental health services in the places people live, like we have been doing for 9 years , driving around this beautiful state of ours. While mindfulness gets a lot of mentions in other presentations for its effectiveness, we were the only organisation actually teaching mindfulness courses, and doing so for free, for all Tasmanians. So if you’re here in Tassie, sign up for a course if you havent already and tell your friends as well!