Writer and policy advisor working at the intersection of inner & outer transformation, resilience and sustainability
Unlocking Inner-led Change
Bio
Jamie Bristow is a writer and policy advisor working at the intersection of inner and outer resilience, sustainability and transformation. His influential reports include The System Within: Addressing the inner dimension of sustainability and systems transformation, commissioned by the Club of Rome.
Jamie is currently Executive Director of The Reweaving Project, a research and education initiative centred around an innovative post-graduate program at Harvard University led by Professor Rebecca Henderson. Jamie is also an Honorary Researcher at Lancaster Environment Centre, a fellow of the Mind & Life Institute, and co-founder of Life Itself Sensemaking Studio. He previously led public narrative and policy development for the Inner Development Goals.
From 2015 to 2023, Jamie played an instrumental role in the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on Mindfulness, acting as its clerk and serving as Director of the associated policy institute, The Mindfulness Initiative. During this time he worked with legislators around the world to make mindfulness and compassion training serious matters of public policy and catalysts for a healthier political process.
Jamie's earlier roles included being the Business Development Director at Headspace, and his background encompasses psychology, climate change campaigning, and advertising. He is a committed Insight Meditation practitioner and is training to teach. His teachers have included Rob Burbea and Catherine Magee, and he is Co-Chair of Trustees for the Hermes Amāra Foundation, which is dedicated to preserving Rob’s innovative teachings.
Key publications
A ‘deep dive’ on systems transformation published by the Club of Rome, a policy report addressing the inner dimensions of the climate crisis and a paper framing mindfulness as a foundational capacity for collective action.
The System Within: addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and systems transformation
Jamie Bristow, Rosie Bell, Christine Wamsler, Tomas Bjorkman, Phoebe Tickell, Julia Kim, Otto Scharmer (2024)
Reconnection: Meeting the Climate Crisis Inside Out
Jamie Bristow, Rosie Bell, Christine Wamsler (2022)
Mindfulness: Developing Agency in Urgent Times
Jamie Bristow, Rosie Bell, Dan Nixon (2020)
Podcasts and Videos
Jamie recently guest-hosted a special mini-series of the Mind & Life Podcast. He has talked widely about his work on sustainability, societal resilience and systems transformation on other podcasts.
Current Projects
Psycho-social dimensions of societal resilience
Researching and engaging in advocacy to better integrate domains of resilience work in public policy.
Exploring a new kind of affiliative pattern between change agents.
Helping aligned organisations make sense of emerging systems and novel cultural landscapes.
More to be
announced soon…
Roles & Responsibilities
Current roles
Executive Director, The Reweaving Project
Honorary Researcher, Lancaster Environment Centre
Co-founder, Life Itself Sensemaking Studio
Co-initiator, lifeguild.earth
Senior Advisor, Inner Development Goals
Fellow, Mind & Life Institute
Recent positions
Inner Council,
Conscious Food Systems Alliance (UNDP)
Public Narrative & Policy Development Lead,
Inner Development Goals
Honorary Associate, Bangor University
Guest Lecturer, MSt in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, University of Oxford
Research Associate & Inner Work Advisor,
Climate Majority Project
Director, The Mindfulness Initiative
Changemaker, Sankalpa
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