In the ever-evolving and emotionally intense field of palliative care, healthcare providers face significant psychological and emotional challenges [1,2]. Recognizing the critical need to support their well-being, the World Health Organization emphasized the importance of psychological resilience programs in its Global Health and Palliative Care Strategy [3]. It highlights an urgent need for tailored mental health strategies addressing the distinct challenges faced by palliative care providers. Among these strategies, mindfulness—a state of being actively attentive to the present—has gained traction as a practice that alleviates emotional burdens and enhances the quality of care provided [2,[4], [5], [6]]. Evidence shows that mindfulness strengthens resilience and fosters profound positive transformations in the personal and professional lives of palliative care providers [2,4,7,8].

Despite its potential, existing research has predominantly framed mindfulness as a short-term intervention, emphasizing its immediate benefits such as reduced stress and improved resilience [5,[9], [10], [11]]. However, these benefits tend to diminish without regular practice [2,12]. Moreover, most studies focus on specific professional roles, such as physicians or nurses, overlooking the inherently interdisciplinary nature of palliative care, which relies on the close collaboration of diverse professionals to address complex patient and caregiver needs [13]. Rather than examining individual professions in isolation, this study addresses gaps in existing research by adopting an interdisciplinary lens to understand how mindfulness is experienced within the context of team-based care. This study examines how mindfulness and resilience are cultivated across diverse professional roles by exploring the shared experiences of palliative care providers within an interdisciplinary care context. Further, it identifies common experiential themes that transcend disciplinary boundaries. To this end, this study employs an interpretative phenomenological approach to explore how palliative care providers with sustained mindfulness practice cultivate resilience in both their professional and personal lives. Given its focus on understanding how individuals make sense of their lived experiences, an interpretative phenomenological approach is suitable for this study because it allows an in-depth exploration of how mindfulness shapes resilience within the emotionally complex context of palliative care [14].