Welcome to the MBC members area. This is your gateway to all the news, updates, events and resources you will need to support you and your organisation in embedding the Mindful Business Charter.
Registration is still open for the Mindful Business Charter Conference 2026!
Building on the success of our 2024 and 2025 events, this year’s conference will bring together colleagues from across the MBC community to connect, share and learn. We’ll be exploring some of the most relevant and fast‑evolving workplace topics, with:
Only a handful of in-room places now remain before we move to a waiting list for attendance at the Royal College of Nursing. If you’re hoping to join us in person and haven’t registered already, we’d encourage you to do so as soon as possible.Unlimited online attendance remains available for all MBC members, so colleagues across your organisation can still join virtually. Attendance is free and exclusive to the MBC Community. Please share with relevant colleagues
If you missed any of our recent events, recordings are now available, including:
Vicarious trauma and other psycho-social risks in high-pressure environments with Harry Key, Director of Global Specialist Services CIC Wellbeing
Suitable for: All colleagues in MBC organisations. Please share.
Synopsis: Professionals working in high-pressure environments are often exposed to emotionally demanding situations, complex client or stakeholder interactions, and sustained performance expectations.
Over time, this exposure can contribute to psychosocial risks such as burnout and vicarious trauma - impacting emotional wellbeing, thinking patterns, decision-making, and professional effectiveness.
What you’ll learn:
This session provides a practical, psychologically informed introduction to vicarious trauma and related risks. It will help participants understand how these experiences develop, identify roles and contexts where vulnerability may be higher, and explore strategies to protect wellbeing while maintaining effective performance.
While examples may draw on sectors such as legal, media, and other client-facing professions, the content is designed to be relevant to a wide range of roles where individuals are exposed to high demand, emotionally charged work, or sustained pressure.
Date: 23/06/26
Time: 15.00-16.00 BST
Microsoft Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/332530977085182?p=qt2eIJdJUaprbFMKgS
Meeting ID:
332 530 977 085 182
Passcode:
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Who is it aimed at – While it is open to all employees of MBC member organisations it will be of particular interest to those in the legal sector.
This session explores how the O Shaped approach and the principles of the Mindful Business Charter combine to reshape how we close the gap between law and business.
In an age of generative AI, expectations on lawyers to deliver efficient, effective services have never been higher. In-house teams are under pressure to do more with less, while law firms are being pushed to provide innovative, cost-effective solutions.
For people to thrive in this environment, the industry must look beyond just training and relying on technical expertise. The true differentiator lies in leadership, culture, mindset, and behaviours. By working more closely together, law firms and legal functions can strengthen relationships, unlock better outcomes, and deliver greater value for their businesses.
Dan and Richard explore these challenges, share your perspectives, and discover how O Shaped thinking can help the legal profession thrive in times of unprecedented change.
Dan is founder of O Shaped, an organisation that exists to make the legal profession better for those who are in it, those who use it and those who are entering it, by closing the gap between law and business.
He has 25 years’ experience in the legal sector, both in private practice and in-house, most recently as a General Counsel at Network Rail. O Shaped started out as a passion project for Dan in 2019 and in April 2022 he decided to leave his role at Network Rail to focus exclusively on driving the O Shaped mission forward. His innovative approach to delivering legal services regularly saw him and his team nominated for awards and receive widespread industry recognition.
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The Best Practice Guidelines complement the MBC Charter by providing a set of guidelines focused on recognising and minimising the risk factors which give rise to poor mental health. Here you will find the Guidelines, for the legal and non-legal sectors, and associated materials which will help you to implement them in your organisation.
Here you will find a number of resources to get the ball rolling - tools and checklists to assist you in embedding and implementing the MBC principles into your organisation.
A large part of implementing the Mindful Business Charter is really about enacting behavioural change in your workplaces. As we appreciate that this can often be a sensitive and complex task, we have worked with the University of Central London and their Centre for Behavioural Change to bring you a variety of resources to help you. We were also delighted to work with them in completing some ground breaking research into MBC implementation - in both legal and non-legal sectors, a report of which you can find below.
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The more organisations that understand what we, the MBC and all its signatories are trying to do, the more effective we can be. It really helps if you can talk to your partner organisations about the MBC and how it supports your employees and their ways of working. To help you with those discussions we have created some resources for you.
These training materials should assist you in making the case for embedding the MBC principles in your organisation. You will also find six bite size modules (developed by digital wellbeing experts Shine offline) which allow you to develop your understanding and gain practical tips to improve your relationship with your tech. It includes expert opinions from authors, psychologists and thought leaders, along with challenges, quizzes and accompanying written resources.
As you travel along your MBC journey you may find you want to explore things in more depth, enrol Champions to help you strengthen the message across the organisation, or pick up some tips from organisations who are a little further along than you. This section provides you with a wealth of resources from other member organisations, so you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Feel free to use them as a starting point to adapt them to your organisation.
As a signatory you can use these Logos and Visual assets on internal and external communication to help send the message that you are committed to reducing unnecessary stress through aligning with the MBC.
The latest MBC news in the media.
Signatory calls are where we allow our member organisations to give us updates on how they have been implementing the Mindful Business Charter, giving us all an opportunity to learn from each other. Here you can find an archive of past Signatory Calls.
Our Insight Sessions are brought to you by external speakers on diverse topics such as Neurodiversity, Stress and Burnout. Here you can find an archive of our past Insight Sessions.
Our Trustees provide strategic guidance, governance and support for the MBC, enriched by their years of experience in a variety of areas. This section provides a short introduction to them all and outlines their areas of responsibility.
MBC is a charity; we take our governance responsibilities seriously and want to be open and transparent. In this section you will find documents about that in practice - our constitution, details of our AGMs and the reports the trustees produce annually to describe our activity.
The intention of the Mindful Business Charter is to remove unnecessary sources of stress and promote better mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. There will be times when long hours and stress cannot be avoided, but this isn’t always the case, and we want it to become the exception rather than the rule. As a business community we have a responsibility to do things differently.
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