Mindfulness Training
I offer Meditation and Mindfulness Training in the following forms:
- TME workplace training (6 weeks)
- MBSR (8 week) to groups or individuals
- MEQ®
- Taster sessions
- Introduction to Mindfulness Courses
- Mindfulness Practice Day
- Mindfulness, Meditation, Movement and Posture workshop (co-taught with an Alexander Teacher, Grant Ragsdale)
- Bespoke courses
- Individual training and advice
- Mindful Movement with Five Elements Yoga
- Yin Yoga
I have taken courses and retreats in
- Transcendental Meditation (1995)
- Buddhist Meditation (2000 onwards)
- ACEM meditation (2009)
- MBSR (2013)
- Breath and Compassion (2013, 2014)
- Vipassana (2015, 2016)
- Mindful Self Compassion (2018)
- Mindfulness Based Compassionate Living (2022)
- Mindfulness retreats (annually, 2017 to 2024)
My regular practice is a breath meditation, and I regularly use other mindfulness practices. I have a regular yoga practice, which I increasingly see as a mindfulness practice as well as a form of exercise.
My professional development as a mindfulness teacher includes
- Masters in Mindfulness Based Approaches at Bangor University(2013 – 2016) with distinction, including:
- Foundation module (2013, passed)
- Buddhist Background module (2013, passed)
- Teaching 1 module (2014, passed)
- Research module (2014, passed)
- Dissertation (2015, passed)
- Teacher Training Retreat 1 (Bangor, 2014)
- TME Trainer (Mindfulness Exchange, 2015)
- CMRP Conference on Mindfulness in Society (Chester, 2015)
- CMRP Conference (Bangor, 2016)
- Teacher Training Retreat 2 (Bangor, 2016).
- Inquiry Workshop (Bangor, 2017)
- MBCL teacher training (Mindfulness Network, 2018)
- Five Elements Yoga Teacher Training (Anahata Yoga, 2018)
- MBSR Curriculum Specialist (2021)
- Frame by Frame practitioner (2023)
- Mindfulness Supervision (2023)
My client list includes
- The Yoga Space, Leeds
- Swarthmore Adult Education Centre
- Jamyang Buddhist Centre Leeds
- Touchstone
- Together Women
- Leeds Community Health
- Wakefield District Housing
- Remploy (Access to work)
- NHS Leeds South and East CCG
- Individual clients
- Leeds Council
- Department of Work and Pensions
- St Swithun’s Community Centre
- IPL Ltd
- BBC Radio Leeds
- The Sanctuary Health and Wellbeing, Wakefield
My research into mindfulness-based approaches is documented at www.informingmindfulness.co.uk.
I currently volunteer for The Mindfulness Network, where I have been business manager (2017-8), chair of trustees (2018-21), executive director (2021-24), and conference director for the International Conference on Mindfulness 2024.
