Our Research
Pioneering a new understanding of mindfulness
How Our Cultural Heritage and The Language We Use Traps Us in Our Heads
Paper currently in peer review
This paper builds upon the Environmental Model of Mindfulness to show how our cultural and linguistic environments, beliefs, and worldviews result in the chronic internalization of awareness, keeping us trapped in the "cage of mind", and offers ways to break free.
Reduce Mind Wandering with Clear Work Goals and Expectations
Presented at the 2025 Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Conference
This study built upon the Environmental Model of Mindfulness to show that clear work goals and expectations are associated with higher levels of trait mindfulness in an employee population, above and beyond a person's experience with mindfulness practices.
Introducing the Environmental Model of Mindfulness
Published in Frontiers in Social Psychology
This paper forms the scientific foundation for many of Mindful Origins' programs. It introduces the Environmental Model of Mindfulness, highlighting how mindfulness is an innate cognitive style that naturally emerges when humans engage with their surrounding environments, particularly in nature. Click below to explore the full research.
How Work Environment Influences Mindfulness
Presented at the Society for Industrial/Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Conference in 2020
A summary of existing research and quantitative study on the link between work environment, employee personality traits, and mindfulness.
