This project advances research into mindfulness and performance training, relating to both D/deaf and hearing populations. Building on a new embodied Mindfulness Model by Khoury et al (2023), Laura, in collaboration with Dr Deborah Middleton, developed a model for ‘Embodied mindfulness for Performers’, which explains the role of physiological mechanisms which underpin awareness (interoception, proprioception and exteroception) in mindfulness and embodiment training. This journal article is forthcoming in 2024.

Laura then worked closely alongside an international team of Deaf Consultants and research associates to develop an embodied mindfulness training programme consisting of a range of adapted mindfulness practices which are both culturally and linguistically accessible for Deaf communities in the UK, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. These practices were delivered and disseminated by workshops internationally throughout the term of the MCSA fellowship, and have also been made fully available via a purpose built website, housing a wide array of mini practices that the Deaf communities can access and use in their own time.