Journeys with mindfulness
PhD Research
Chloe’s doctoral research aimed to understand the ways mindfulness can support healing and wellbeing.
They found that the practice is powerful in aiding individual and collective transformation. Their thesis, ‘towards mindful geographies’, provides a manifesto for geographical engagements with mindfulness
Chloe used zines as a way to communicate research findings. With a group of participants on an 8-week mindfulness course, they created ‘a little book of wisdom’ that collected together poems, quotes, youtube videos, and images that were significant to them during the course.
The zine
Chloe authored a zine that tells fictionalised stories of 6 individuals who had significant journeys with mindfulness.
The stories in the zine are the product of in-depth ethnographic work over the course of the year. Chloe worked closely with a group of participants to trace their relationship with mindfulness, in which they used a mixture of qualitative methods from participant observation and interviews to participatory research methodologies.
The zine was produced out of Chloe’s frustration with the unreadability of a 100,000 word thesis. Chloe sought to produce a widely accessible and easy to digest piece of work that would allow them to share their doctoral research more widely.
