Over the last 12 years, through my work at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University, I have been engaged with colleagues (both within CMRP and from other training centres in the UK) in an exploration of how to support the development of a robust professional practice context for our own teaching team and for the growing community of mindfulness-based teachers...

Conrad W. Watson describes fieldwork as ‘a period of particular heightened intensity’ (1999a: 2) in the introduction Being There (1999b). The authors this volume were by far not first, nor last, anthropologists questioning and critically reflecting on what it is that they are actually doing when being there their respective fields. For others (Borneman Hammoudi 2009; Geertz 2004; Hollan 2008), ...