Media Articles on McMindfulness
Being more mindful about mindfulness. Bethan Staton & Isabel Berwick, Financial Times, January 31, 2024.
Beyond “McMIndfulness”: How Buddhism actually eases suffering, Adrie Kusserow. Big Think, January 29, 2024.
What does Jay Shetty know about love? Alisha Haridasani Gupta, New York Times, February 13, 2023.
McMindfulness: How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality. (book chapter excerpt) psychotherapy.net, November 15, 2022
McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. (book review), Mark Koester, March 29, 2022.
How mindfulness meditation can make us less generous, Rohitha Naraharisetty, The Swaddle, March 12, 2022.
Covid clinics: hope and high prices on the long road to recovery. Amelia Tait, The Observer, January 2, 2022.
Review of McMindfulness. Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Majd Jamal Hammoudeh, Vol. 12(1), 201-205, 2021.
Need relief from stress of screen time? There’s an app for that. Jules Menten, Financial Times, December 13, 2021.
‘Mindfulness’ o la privatizacion del bienestar, Mar Gomez Glez, El Pais, November 11, 2021.
Cita de libros: “McMindfulness”, la herramienta a la medida del neoliberalismo que alimenta el individualismo y la autoexplotacion, El Mostrador TV, November 7, 2021.
How mindfulness could make you selfish, BBC Worklife, David Robson, August 16, 2021.
Contra el ‘mindfulness’, Huffington Post (Spanish), Andres Lomena, August 9, 2021.
Book Review of McMindfulness. Jesse Barker, Journal of Global Buddhism. June 7, 2021.
Corporations Are Trying to Co-opt Mindfulness to Avoid Meeting Workers’ Needs, Robert Raymond, Truthout.org, June 5, 2021.
Stressed-out Amazon workers can now access ‘mindfulness’ training. Gee, thanks. Jessa Crispin, The Guardian, June 2, 2021.
How mindfulness is making us more anxious, Boudicca Fox-Leonard, The Telegraph, May 1, 2021.
Review of McMindfulness, OhmyNews (Korean), March 12, 2021.
Why some New Age influencers believe Trump is a “lightworker.” Nicole Karlis, Salon, March 5, 2021.
Can Mindfulness Change the World, Bonny Brooks, ArcDigital/Medium. October 25, 2020.
How mindfulness was hijacked. Sophie Aubrey. The Sydney Morning Herald. August 31, 2020.
The road beyond McMindfulness. Michael Edwards. Transformation. July 22, 2020.
Komu Szkodzi: Mindfulness, Daria Dziewiecka, Yoga Magazine (Polish: www.magazynjoga.pl) pp80-83.
The Link Between Meditation and Social Justice, Josh Jacobs, Thrive Global, April 9, 2020.
Are free meditation apps the answer for stressed staff? Emma Jacobs, Financial Times, March 1, 2020.
Critiquing capitalist spirituality. J.W. Horton, Canadian DIMENSIONS, February 27, 2020.
The (over) promise of the mindfulness revolution. Ryan Kost, San Francisco Chronicle, February 7, 2020.
The Problem with the Mindfulness Movement, Nicholas Gilmore, The Saturday Evening Post, January 9, 2020.
Winton Higgins on Ron Purser’s “McMindfulness”, Secular Buddhist Network, Sydney, Australia. (Accessed January 7, 2020).
McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. Christine Heming, Shambala Times (book review), December 22, 2019.
How the 2010s became the decade of self-care, Nicole Karlis, Salon.com, December 21, 2019.
The Nine Biggest Lies in Wellness, Alice Oglethorpe, Men’s Health, December 20, 2019.
‘Kritiek op het kapitalisme wordt door mindfulness ondergraven’, Anna Krijger, nrc.nl, December 20, 209.
Does Mindfulness Mold Conformity? David Niose, Psychology Today, December 16, 2019.
Meet Ronald E. Purser, and read an excerpt from his new book “McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality”. Shout-Out (Susan Kaiser Greenland blog), Marlena Trafas, December 5, 2019.
How Mindfulness Morphed from Ancient Spiritual Practice to Big Business: An Interview with Ron Purser, Liza Featherstone, Jacobin, December 6, 2019.
McMindfulness, thoughts on a CBC interview with author Ronald Purser. Soshin McMurchy, Times Colonist, December 4, 2019.
McMindfulness: An interview with Ronald Purser. Caterina Reis Pires, VISAO, online version - October 27, 2019.
Can mindfulness help build a better society? Canvas8, October 15, 2019.
Do mindfulness activities really work? Daniel Garrahan, Financial Times, October 10, 2019.
MIndfulness has become a spiritual quick dressing in the service of capitalism, Catarina Pires, DN Life, October 10, 2019.
McMindfulness: An interview with Ronald Purser, Caterina Reis Pires, VISAO (Lisbon, Portugal), October 9, 2019.
A Panoptican for the Mind: Talking with Ronald Purser about Mindfulness Today, LA Review of Books, October 7, 2019.
The Mindfulness Industry, Kit Caless. The Tribune Magazine, September 30, 2019.
Hou jij ze dom, hou ik ze arm, zegt de werkgever tegen de mindfulnessgoeroe, Sheila Sitalsing, deVolkskrant, September 23, 2019.
Kauwen op een rozijn helpt echt niet tegen uitbuiting en onderbetaling Esma Linneman, deVolksrant, September 20, 2019.
MIndfulness and first person action research: Context matters. Hilary Bradbury, AR+ Action Research newsletter, September 19, 2019
Privatising the causes of stress dovetails nicely with neoliberal ideology. Samria Shackle, New Humanist, September 19, 2019.
The Dark Side of Mindfulness We Need To Wake Up, Ronald E. Purser, Refinery29, September 16, 2019.
The Mindfulness Bubble: Why Meditating is Not the Remedy for All Evils, Jose Maria Robles, EL MUNDO (Madrid), September 11, 2019.
The Radical Potential of Civic Mindfulness, Alex Steullet, Kintopia. September 11, 2019.
Mental health is dance music’s most urgent issue, Sirin Kale, DJ Magazine, September 10, 2019.
Is modern mindfulness a corporate scam? This management professor thinks so. Rina Raphael, Fast Company, August 22, 2019.
The Mind Cure. Book review by C. Pierce Salguero in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Fall, 2019.
McMindfulness by Ronald Purser, Jonnie Wolf, Book of the Day, The Guardian, August 6, 2019.
Is mindfulness really just another form of selfishness? William Leith, Evening Standard, August 1, 2019.
Can anxiety be good for you? Michael Ungar, Psychology Today, July 30, 2019.
Book Review, Kathryn Ecclestone, Times Higher Education, July 25, 2019.
Why Corporations Want You to Shut Up and Meditate, Zachary Siegel, THE NATION, July 25, 2019.
Is mindfulness possible in a capitalist society? Derek Beres, BigThink, July 22, 2019.
McMindfulness - Book Review, henacynflin, July 19, 2019.
How mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality “It’s all about me’, Mike Fordham, HUCK, July 19, 2019.
Your Wellbeing: Would you like fries with your mindfulness? Rev. Chris McDermott, University of Sussex, July 18, 2019.
Are You In Your RIGHT MIND? Is mindfulness the solution to all our ills? Claire Coleman, METRO (London), July 17, 2019
How mindfulness privatised a social problem. Hettie O’Brien, NewStatesman, July 17, 2019.
Has mindfulness become just another wing of capitalism? Joe Humphreys, The Irish Times (Unthinkable), July 11, 2019
McMindfulness and the Mantra of Stress, Ronald Purser, The Mindful Leader, July 9, 2019.
What’s After Neoliberal Meditation? Oshan Jarow, Musing Mind, July 3, 2019.
Is Mindfulness a Con? Russell Brand, June 26, 2019.
Why we’re made to feel guilty for work stress, Emily Reynolds, THE FACE, 21 June 2019.
Mindfulness is a Capitalist Scam, Ryan Bassil, VICE, 20 June 2019.
Review of McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality, Dosho Port, Wild Fox Zen, Patheos. June 17, 2019.
The mindfulness conspiracy, Ronald Purser, The Guardian, June 14, 2019.
App-fuelded mindfulness is on offer to stressed-out tech workers. Does it do them any good at all?, Nicole Karlis, Salon, May 28, 2019.
Review of McMindfulness, Dharmavidya, Lotus in the Mud, March 11, 2019.