The continuing growth in the application of mindfulness in the workplace has brought BAMBA’s attention to the need to apply its experience, as well as its neutral and evidence-based approach, to the recognition of Workplace Mindfulness-Based Approaches (MBAs).

During 2022, BAMBA mobilised a working group of professionals from the field of mindfulness to design and deliver an end-to-end Quality Assessment process that would encourage and support the application of mindfulness-based approaches in the workplace and protect the public. This process paved the way to BAMBA completing its first Quality Assessment of workplace-based mindfulness with HSBC Bank plc.

The design of the quality assessment process for workplace-based mindfulness centres around evidencing five key areas of focus in ‘how’ mindfulness in delivered. These four elements of Ethics, Curriculum, Competence, and Sustainability sit around a core Equality, Diversity and Inclusion intention.

The foundation of this work is underpinned by the following principles.

BAMBA’s approach is:

• Informed by theories and practices that draw upon contemplative traditions, science and the major disciplines of medicine, psychology and education.
• Based upon a model of human experience that identifies some of the causes of human suffering and possible ways of relieving it.
• Developed with a new way of being with experience that uses present moment focus, de-centering and an approach orientation.
• Supportive of the development of greater attentional, emotional and behavioral self-regulation, and cultivates compassion, wisdom and equanimity.
• Delivered in a way where participants are given space to develop insight and understanding into their experience through sustained, intensive training in mindfulness mediation practice and an experiential inquiry-based learning process.
• Considerate of adapted curriculum elements that are integrated with essential components and are appropriate to specific contexts and populations.
• Considerate of variation in structure length and delivery that are appropriate to the population and context.
  In recognition of the paper ‘What defines Mindfulness-based programs: The warp and the weft’ (Crane et al. 2017)

Submitting a Workplace Quality Assessment Application

If you would like to be considered for the Quality Assessment Process for Workplace-Based Programmes, please contact the Director of BAMBA by email at info@bamba.org.uk at which point you will be invited to discuss the process in more detail and submit your case and evidence portfolio to our assessment panel.