About Me

Bethan has been teaching 8-week mindfulness courses since 2008 including Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), Finding Peace in a Frantic World (FPIFW) and ‘Mindfulness in the Workplace’ (a Bangor University curriculum) mainly within workplace contexts to a variety of organisations in the UK including the Office for National Statistics, the Intellectual Property Office, Police Authorities, Members of the Welsh Government and their support staff, National Museum Wales, and Marie Curie Hospice and staff. She teaches in-person and online.

In 2015, Bethan joined the Core Training Team for the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) at Bangor University and taught on the Masters programme there until 2022, when she stepped down because of family caring responsibilities. She has been the lead on the MBSR teacher trainings at the CMRP/Mindfulness Network since 2018 and also runs courses on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion for mindfulness teachers and retreat leads. She also taught MBCT courses on behalf the Sussex Mindfulness Centre for several years.

She initially trained in teaching MBSR at the Center for Mindfulness, UMass, USA before undertaking trainings with the CMRP at Bangor University, the Mindfulness Association and more recently with the Mindfulness Center at Brown University, USA.

Bethan is also a Mental Health First Aid Instructor and an i-act instructor (which is an accredited workplace mental health and wellbeing programme) and delivers bespoke training to workplaces.

Teaching Training Specialisms

• MBSR
• Inquiry
• Equality Diversity and Inclusion
• Teacher Training Level 1 (now called ‘The Essentials’)
• Teacher Training Level 2

Supervision Specialisms

• MBSR
• FPIFW
• Workplace Mindfulness

Personal Practice

Bethan has been practising meditation since 2002 and attends regular silent meditation retreats in the UK and abroad, including a month-long silent retreat led by Rob Nairn in South Africa in 2007. She has also been on several yoga retreats since 2012.