I started my career in business, but trained to be a teacher in my mid-twenties. I specialised in working with pupils who had been excluded from school for behaviour and anger issues.  As I trained further and entered more senior roles in schools and local authority, I began to train and coach teachers and mentors in how to work with vulnerable families.  I was always on the look out for effective therapeutic interventions. This is when I came across the growing research on Mindfulness.

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I had always had an interest in meditation and had tried it on and off for many years, experimenting on my own, but in 2005 when I experienced a great deal of personal and professional stress, I decided to travel to India, to learn Vipassana meditation which we now call, in the West, Mindfulness.

 

I was struck quite quickly by how effective it was.  Despite having a background in counselling, solution focused psychotherapy and hypnotherapy, I found that Mindfulness nurtured and healed me on a deeper level than anything I had ever experienced.

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This prompted me to understand mindfulness at a professional level. On my return to the UK, I undertook teacher training in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy and since then, I have been furthering my training, knowledge and skills and teaching the same tools and techniques that alleviated my suffering to others.  

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My mission is to make the teaching of mindfulness as accessible and relevant as possible to individuals and their lives.  

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Apart from teaching mindfulness, I currently coach senior leaders in education and deliver training in areas related to positive psychology and wellbeing, but my passion lies in mindfulness and its ability to transform individuals and through them, society.