Building the Muscle: Mindfulness & Performance w/ Luke Doherty

Today I’m speaking with Luke Doherty, founder of Mindful Peak Performance (MPP), a non-profit created to bring mindfulness into elite athletics and the business world. 

Luke trained as an elite rugby player and was capped for England under-18's. He went on to study law and then spent 7 years living and working at the London Buddhist Center before founding MPP, which has a strong social vision to make mindfulness more accessible, not only to professional athletes and business leaders, but to disadvantaged young people as well. 

MPP’s BAM! Boxing programmes received the UK Mindfulness Initiative's inaugural Innovations in Mindfulness Award, and MPP is now part of a consortium which advises the UK government’s department of Health and Social Care. 

Luke shares the challenges he faced as a young person aspiring to be an elite athlete, how he discovered mindfulness and even came close to walking a monastic path. We also speak about performance and wellbeing being two sides of the same coin, and how sportspeople, leaders and young people can benefit from cultivating and training their awareness. 

There were some minor issues with the audio at the start of our recording. A good opportunity to put your attentional capacities to the test and focus on the dialogue rather than the tech glitches which are now part and parcel of our modern lives.

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