About Me

I was a  Secondary Senior Leader in an inner city school in Cardiff . I trained at the University of Strathclyde to gain my PGCE in Secondary Teaching and taught in Scotland for 10 years before moving to Cardiff. I moved back to Scotland in 2021 during the pandemic to be closer to family and I now live in Bearsden. I have had a meditation practice in my life for almost 30 years but did not train in Mindfulness until 2012.

I trained with the Mindfulness in Schools Project (MISP) in 2012 to teach the young people ( .b and paws b) I taught in school to help reduce stress and anxiety levels that were on the increase. In 2014 I trained at Bangor University in North Wales in the 7-day-long Teacher Training Retreat Level 1 to teach the 8-week MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course)and then went on to train with (Misp) to be able to teach the .b Foundations Mindfulness course so that I could teach staff ways to reduce stress and anxiety using mindfulness and cognitive therapy approaches.

I left my teaching role in 2015 to focus my career as a freelance Mindfulness Teacher to teach Mindfulness and courses in Education, workplace and community settings.

I went on to study part-time at the University of Exeter and gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy in 2018 and gained my MSc in Psychological Research and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapies and Approaches in 2020.

I am trained to teach the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy course and the 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course. I completed the training to teach Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Life course at the Oxford Mindfulness Centre in 2019.

Over the last 11 years  I have taught lots of  8-week Mindfulness courses .  I have also delivered Mindfulness retreats, workshops and presentations.I completed the Mindfulness Supervisor Level 1 course in April 2023 with the Mindfulness network and now can offer supervision sessions to Mindfulness teachers.

From 2018 to 2021 I worked at a mental health charity in Wales called 'Valleys Steps'  as a Wellbeing Practitioner teaching  Mindfulness courses and workshops.

Since moving back to Scotland in 2021 I  combine my freelance Mindfulness work with a part-time role as a peripatetic Mindfulness and Wellbeing teacher for a local charity/social enterprise, teaching children, young people and staff schools as well as adults in community settings.
I create bespoke mindfulness courses and workshops  for educational, workplace and community groups as well as 1-2-1 sessions.

I recently completed a Level 3 Breathwork Coach and am teaching Breathwork courses and presentations on Breathwork.  More details on my website claremcrobbie.co.uk