About Me

I have been meditating since 1989 and was first introduced to Mindfulness in 2004. I went on to complete the 8-week MBSR myself in 2012, finding it hugely transformative and well structured, it certainly deepened my practice. In 2014 I completed the Integrating Mindfulness and Compassion (IMC) in Professional Practice Level 4 Qualification with MindfulnessUK and began teaching others, utilising my 30 year+ background in education, heath and social care, community arts and as a trained teacher (Cert Ed). This reignited my passion for training and supporting others to teach and I began teaching the IMC qualification for MindfulnessUK, completed the MBSR Teacher Training Pathway and trained to be a Supervisor.  I have also completed the Compassionate Mindful Resilience Train the Trainer (CMR TtT) Pathway.  Currently I teach MBSR, CMR and lead the CMR Train-the-Trainer Pathway. I have trained and supervised hundreds of people and value this role enormously, as I see first-hand the diversity of the people these programmes reach with trauma-informed approaches.  I am a parent carer, embrace and celebrate neurodiversity, and bring many years of lived experience and professional expertise to the inclusive way I teach, train and supervise.