--- title: Getting Mindful at Work description: "Mindfulness seems to be everywhere today – in schools, clinics, prisons, hospitals, parliament, in the military, and increasing in boardrooms. 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For a practice that stretches back thousands of years, mindfulness appears to be having a fairly large cultural moment. 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