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Liverpool John Moores University is to broadcast a live guide to meditation
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Liverpool John Moores University is to broadcast a free guided meditation for listeners across the university, the city, and beyond, to find a moment of calm as its wellbeing month draws to a close.
Working with Open Culture and The Mind Map, both Liverpool-based social enterprises, the 15-minute guided meditation will be broadcast via online radio station Melodic Distraction on Monday 27 February starting at 8.30am with the meditation at 8.45am.
People can tune in online using any mobile device, tablet, laptop or computer here and then hitting the play button. Anyone who wants to listen on demand after the event can use the same weblink to listen again.
Tony Bennett, a mindfulness teacher with The Mind Map and a current PhD student at LJMU’s School of Psychology with a research focus on the long-term wellbeing effects of meditation, will voice the session.
Open Culture brought the idea of mass meditation to LJMU when they started working together on the university’s bicentenary celebrations – 2023 marks the 200th anniversary of the institution which can trace its roots back to 1823 and the formation of the Liverpool Mechanics’ and Apprentices’ Library.
Coinciding with the end of LJMU’s annual month-long programme of events, Feel Fab Feb, the meditation has the potential to become a long-term series for all staff and students, as well as communities across the city region, to engage with.
By harnessing the power of digital radio, everyone will be able to tune in and engage in the mass meditation from wherever they might be and to listen back at any time at their leisure.