Mindfulness and meditation programmes offered to staff at ONS

Dyddiad y datganiad:
20 September 2023

FOI REF: FOI-2023-1367

You asked

I would like to request details/guidance on what programmes (if any) on "mindfulness" and/or meditation are offered to staff, including the date that each started.

We said

Thank you for your request.

We offer the following programmes to staff:

  1. Recorded Meditation sessions available on our intranet – available since July 2020

  2. Free access to a mental health app (Thrive) via the Charity for Civil Servants which includes meditation tools (since 2020) 

  3. Guided breathing exercise available via our Learning Hub (since 2019) 

  4. Staff-run "Peer to Peer" mental health network group offers sessions which include mindfulness and meditation. (since 2021) 

  5. We promote the Civil Service Active Wellbeing initiative annually in January, which includes virtual events on guided mindfulness. (since 2019)  

  6. Our EAP providers offer mindfulness and meditation advice and resources (since 2021) 

  7. Individual business areas occasionally offer meditation sessions, we are aware of two in the last year. 

  8. Access to meditation and mindfulness resources (book summaries, courses, podcasts and articles) via Get Abstract (since 2020). 

  9. Access to meditation and mindfulness resources (book summaries, podcasts, videos and articles, etc) via Percipio (since 2021). 

  10. A new Wellbeing Suite was opened in 2022 which included a wellbeing space. This could be used for many activities, including personal or group meditation and mindfulness.

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