In 2024, the activities of the Young Academy of Europe are comprising a webinar series about the state-of-the-art of mental health in academia. Within this frame, on the 26th of April, we had an insightful and inspiring second webinar entitled “Mindfulness based practices to improve mental health in academia”, which focused on providing individual solutions and self-helping practices such as mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindful self-compassion (MSC) that can be useful to fight stress, anxiety and work addiction, and to promote relaxation and self-compassion. On the event moderated by Katalin Solymosi (YAE Chair), Gábor Fazekas (MBSR and mindfulness based cognitive therapy teacher) presented basic principles of mindfulness-based stress reduction and mindful self-compassion, and provided short practical insight into how these methods work in practice.si
