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Why you should book Christoph Spiessens for your next event

  • Delivered mindfulness solutions for renowned brands like Lexus, AstraZeneca, and General Electric, transforming organizational performance.
  • Boasts 15+ years of international Learning & Development experience, delivering measurable mindfulness outcomes to diverse industries.
  • Christoph empowers teams with research-backed mindfulness strategies to build resilience, enhance focus, and foster sustained workplace well-being.

Engage Christoph Spiessens, founder of the Manchester Mindfulness Festival, to empower your teams with transformative, evidence-based mindfulness strategies. With over 15 years of international expertise, Christoph has worked with organizations like Lexus and AstraZeneca, inspiring resilience, collaboration, and well-being. His dynamic keynotes, informed by cutting-edge research and global experience, offer practical solutions to help your teams thrive in today’s fast-paced environments.

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Keynotes

Keynote by speaker Christoph Spiessens: The Mindful Manager

How to Lead Yourself and Others Well with Mindfulness.

In these uncertain times and distracted workplaces, Mindfulness is more relevant than ever. 

In this dynamic and demystifying talk, Christoph explains why the key practical benefit of Mindfulness is enhanced presence and how this leads to better communication, more empathy, improved collaboration, better resourcefulness, and greater resilience. Positive outcomes that ripple through the organisation but also support employee wellbeing outside of work. But how can we practice enhanced presence? Find out in this useful talk! 

Key takeaways:

  • Why Mindfulness is a trainable skill.
  • How to practice neuro-inclusive Mindfulness.
  • How to apply Mindfulness to various aspects of leadership.

Christoph is keen to ensure his talks are directly relevant to his audiences’ objectives. Therefore, this is an interactive keynote with room for audience participation, designed for conscious organisations who are genuinely keen to help their leadership teams thrive in these times of significant change.

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Keynote by speaker Christoph Spiessens: Mechanisms of Mindfulness

How Does Mindfulness Work and How Can it Boost Wellbeing?

There may be no consensus in the psychological literature on the definition of mindfulness or its mechanisms, but the evidence base for the effectiveness of practicing Mindfulness is vast.

In this clarifying talk, Christoph reveals which key mechanisms are cultivated during Mindfulness practice and how they contribute to enhanced wellbeing. 

Key takeaways:

  • What Mindfulness is and isn’t.
  • The functions of Mindfulness.
  • The underpinning cognitive and neural mechanisms of Mindfulness involved in self-regulation.
  • How to practice neuro-inclusive Mindfulness in everyday life.

Discover how we can recognise general mind tendencies which predispose all humans to suffering termed “universal vulnerability,” how to explore our relationship to stress, and how to cultivate the ability to let go of unhelpful stress-perpetuating patterns to improve our health and wellbeing.

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Christoph Spiessens

Practical Mindfulness for Lasting Impact

Christoph Spiessens is the founder of the acclaimed annual Manchester Mindfulness Festival and organises global online gatherings for mindfulness professionals. He holds a Master’s in Teaching Mindfulness with Distinction awarded by Bangor University and is registered with the British Association of Mindfulness-Based Approaches.

With over 15 years of international experience in Learning & Development, bringing evidence-based mindfulness to diverse organisations from charities to global brands including Lexus, ISS, General Electric, and AstraZeneca, he is passionate about building communities.

Christoph is a keynote speaker reaching audiences from emergency services workers to business and educational leaders, and is a regular presenter at wellbeing events like the International Festival of Yoga and The Arches Festival. He was an events manager for The International Conference on Mindfulness organised by Bangor University in 2024 and has been a guest on Unity Radio, Radio Plus, BBC Radio Manchester, and popular podcasts like Mindfulness Voyage, Humans 2.0, and The Being Leader.

Christoph believes in giving back and frequently publishes free meditations on Insight Timer which have received over 39k plays. He has written for Breathe Magazine, volunteers for The Mindfulness Network, and contributes to mindfulness research. 

He recently provided mindfulness meditation recordings that were used in a study by Dr Sparacio and colleagues across 37 sites worldwide with over 2,000 participants, published in Nature Human Behaviour. Born in Belgium, he moved to the UK in 2002.

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