December Monthly Newsletter

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Hello Mindful Leaders,

This is our final monthly newsletter of 2025, bringing together the pieces that sparked the most thinking, debate, and engagement this year. Research that asked more complex questions. Reflections that didn’t pretend mindfulness makes you immune to being human. And the articles you kept coming back to.
An invitation to pause, zoom out, and notice what truly stood out as the year winds down.

As we look ahead, 2026 marks the launch of Open MBSR and a renewed commitment to community-centric mindfulness. We hope you’ll continue the journey with us.

Tools & Insights

BL00 - Mindfulness and Workplace Wellness Research Round-Up

5 Defining Studies from 2025

Mindful Leader

The 2025 research landscape reveals a fork in the road for our field. One path races toward transactional efficiency: AI facilitators and 5-minute micro-doses designed to "fix" individual stress as quickly as possible. The other path points toward relational depth: a growing body of evidence suggesting that the true power of mindfulness lies not in optimizing the self, but in connecting with the community. The question this year is no longer just "does it work?" It is "What are we optimizing for?" Are we building faster tools for isolated workers, or are we building stronger fabrics for disconnected teams?... continue reading

3 Lessons I Learned in 2025

Mo Edjlali

When you have been in the mindfulness field for 15 years, people start imagining you glide through life, calm, steady, perfectly regulated at all times. Maybe you meditate on mountaintops before breakfast. Maybe you never get annoyed in traffic. I wish. 2025 reminded me, loud and clear.... continue reading

Best of 2025: Our most popular articles

Mindful Leader

We're coming up on the end of 2025, and we wanted to pull together the stuff you all engaged with most this year. We've sorted everything into three piles: articles that'll help you think differently, practices you can use, and the best of the best summit talks. Whether you missed these the first time around or coming back for round two, here's what you all engaged with the most this year... continue reading

OpenMBSR In The Wild

The guy who literally coined “FOMO” hosted a conversation on mindfulness.

Patrick J. McGinnis, who popularized the term Fear of Missing Out, invited Mo to a deep dive on mindfulness, AI, Open MBSR, and the future we’re all stumbling into on his podcast FOMO Sapiens. The episode is now live. Listen Here

Agile, AI, and Mindfulness Collide

The episode is now live. This conversation between Mo Edjlali and Agile Expert - Vasco Duarte challenges how we think about attention, agency, and the future of work. Listen Here

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Upcoming Offerings

MBSR Live & Online 8-week courses:
Live online 8-week certificate course in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction. The gold standard in mindfulness training.

CLOSING SOON Tuesdays at 6 pm ET - Starts January 6
Sundays at 9 am ET - Starts January 11
Fridays at 9 am ET - Starts January 23
NEW Mondays at 6 pm ET - Start February 2
NEW Fridays at 12 pm ET - Starts February 13

MBSR Silent Retreats:
Retreats are Live & Online (Zoom) led by senior MBSR instructors.

NEW 1-Day Meditation Retreat: Sunday January 11
NEW 1-Day Meditation Retreat: Saturday January 24

Meditate Together: A Global Community of Practice:
Meditate Together membership is open now! We’ve launched our own custom web app — real people, real practice, every hour. Join today and take advantage of our 30-day free trial.

Warmly,
The Mindful Leader Team

Jan 6, 2026 09:47am

By Mindful Leader

Under News and Updates

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