{"id":4106,"date":"2015-02-19T16:14:13","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T16:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/?p=4106"},"modified":"2015-02-19T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-19T16:14:13","slug":"mosaics-art-mindfulness-and-neuroscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/mosaics-art-mindfulness-and-neuroscience\/","title":{"rendered":"News&#8230;on mosaics, art, mindfulness and neuroscience&#8230;(phew!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks<\/p>\n<p>Excuse the little blog silence &#8211; half-term holidays kicked in and those quiet moments for blog writing have been filled with the sound of squeaky recorders, giggling (yes, a little fighting), singing, funny shows (yesterday was Spoon Man meets Rolling Pin Man!) and some trips into the center of London. We even managed a sunny day at our allotment yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4534.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Mosaics, Concetta Perot, London, learn mosaics, mindfulness, neuroscience\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4534.jpg\" width=\"575\" height=\"431\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, I am taking a quick 15 minutes to write the briefest of posts to tell you that I am soooooo excited that I have been accepted on an amazing Masters programme at the <a title=\"Institute of Psychiatry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/ioppn\/index.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience<\/a> at Kings College London. I will be studying the intersection between mindfulness and neuroscience with a special research focus on the role of creative-meditative art practices and how these can be used to support mental health and well being.<\/p>\n<p>Because we know that mosaic is meditation, don&#8217;t we?<\/p>\n<p>And that mosaic making is sooooo therapeutic, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>That if the pharmaceuticals could put it in a bottle and sell the magic of mosaic, they would. But they can&#8217;t &#8211; that&#8217;s our job. And I feel very privileged to have been accepted on this Masters programme which is unique in the world for its grounding in research, science and practical application.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4476.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Mosaics, Concetta Perot, London, learn mosaics, mindfulness, neuroscience\" src=\"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_4476.jpg\" width=\"541\" height=\"721\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I look forward to sharing the journey with you and if you want to<strong> keep informed of my research <\/strong>(and may be interested in participating)<strong>, <\/strong>I have created a special <strong>Art &amp; the Brain<\/strong> email list<strong><\/strong> <a title=\"Mosaics and brain email list\" href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/92tnL\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As serendipity would have it, the night before my interview, one of my students emailed me to say how therapeutic she was finding mosaics on the course I am running. It was a beautiful bit of writing and she has given me permission to publish it on the blog, which I will do next week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks Excuse the little blog silence &#8211; half-term holidays kicked in and those quiet moments for blog writing have been filled with the sound of squeaky recorders, giggling (yes, a little fighting), singing, funny shows (yesterday was Spoon Man meets Rolling Pin Man!) and some trips into the center of London. We even managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,49,136,45,18,40,30,13,48,42,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mindfulness","category-community-mosaics","category-lists-and-links","category-mosaic-debates-controversy","category-mosaic-loving","category-workshops-e-courses","category-reusing-and-recycling","category-soulful-life","category-stuff-about-me","category-tranforming-broken-ness","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glitteringshards.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}