Hello, I'm Menka. 👋🏽
I'm just trying not to be a bot. This is the basis of all my work: asking the question "How can we be more human in the digital age?" I have an extensive background in meditation and mindfulness, as well as creativity, technology and innovation. I am the founder of a global community project, Just Looking, and I write a newsletter called Noticing. I'm also the author of Your Best Digital Life, out April 2025.
Just Looking - Home Section
Projects Supported
Breathworks
Mindfulness and compassion training. Breathworks is passionate about helping people living with pain, illness and stress to re-claim their lives
Mossy Earth
The membership that restores our natural world. Together we implement high impact rewilding projects across a wide range of ecosystems.
Stix Mindfulness
The Stix Mindfulness remotes guide children through screen-free & interactive activities, helping to support mental health & wellbeing.
Mind over Tech
Practical methods to help build digital habits that support your wellbeing and productivity.
Articles & Talks
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
Events
ICM 2024 - Mindfulness in a Changing World
A 12-minute talk about mindfulness and the value of looking at things from many different perspectives.
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Interviews
Untangling Ourselves From Technology
Podcast interview talking to Karim Rushdy from Back into Being Method (May 2023)
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Events
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).
Events
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
Events
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)