Exploring the Research on Mindfulness Training

I’d like to take more of a skeptic’s orientation toward mindfulness and start with a question I often get asked when I pitch an idea for a research project. I get asked this question about mindfulness training by leaders of all kinds of organizations, and, in fact, I was asked most recently at the U.S. Pentagon, and it’s this: Does it work?The question sounds simple, but I think what’s being communicated is a little more complex. What I think I’m being asked is: Wha