Your Best Digital Life
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Menka Sanghvi
Hello. 👋🏼 I am a writer, curator and mindfulness guide living in the UK. My work explores the role of contemplative practices in our relationship with technology and the world around us. I am the founder of Just Looking, author of the 60 Experiments in Looking, the Noticing newsletter, and the books Your Best Digital Life (2025), Nectar (2023) and the Fieldbook for Mindfulness Innovators (2019). Also, just trying my best not to be a bot. 🤖
Current Projects
Writing / Speaking / Press
Writing
Gymnastics of Attention (Awakin Reading)
This excerpt of my writing appeared as a weekly reading for the contemplative group Awakin. It is translated into four
Speaking
ICM 2024 - Mindfulness in a Changing World
A 12-minute talk about mindfulness and the value of looking at things from many different perspectives.
I had the opportunity
Interviews
Untangling Ourselves From Technology
Podcast interview talking to Karim Rushdy from Back into Being Method (May 2023)
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News
Inside Out: Public Art, Nature and Mental Wellbeing
Speaker on a panel discussion organised by CREATURE (Research Centre in Creative Arts, Cultures and Engagement) at London Metropolitan University. (October 2022).
News
Launch of The Mindful Photographer Book by Sophie Howarth
Host and speaker at the launch of Sophie Howarth’s The Mindful Photographer held at The Photographers’ Gallery, London. (April 2022)
Interviews
Worthy Five: Recommendations by Menka Sanghvi
Guest contribution to Dense Discovery (Jan 2022)
Writing
Mindfulness-Based Programs: Why, When, and How to Adapt
I co-authored a scientific paper about the adaptation of mindfulness-based programmes which appeared in the Global Advances in Health and
News
UNDP: Conscious Food Systems Alliance – How to Prototype Ideas
Guest speaker at their “Breathing Room” event to discuss how to test and iterate ideas without getting too attached to them. (Dec 2021)
Writing
How Imagination Helps Me See More Clearly
Contribution to the launch of the inaugural Imagination Zine (Oct 2021)
Writing
Essay: Why am I seeing this?
This essay was published in June 2021 in a collection by The Mindfulness Initiative. The whole collection can be downloaded