About Me

Originally from South Africa where I qualified as a lawyer, I learned meditation under the Tibetan master, Lama Yeshe Rinpoche. I am now involved in developing secular mindfulness, compassion and insight programmes drawing upon the wisdom and methods of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, as well as contemporary insights from psychology and neuroscience. I am an honorary fellow of the University of Aberdeen and teach on their Postgraduate Study Programme in Mindfulness (MSc) that is the first of its kind to include compassion in its curriculum. I co-wrote a book with Paul Gilbert in 2013, entitled Mindful Compassion that explores the interface between Buddhist and Evolutionary approaches to compassion training. I am also the co-author of three other books: Mindfulness Based Living Course (2018), From Mindfulness to Insight (2019) and Compassion Based Living Course (2025). I teach the Mindfulness Based Living Course (MBLC) programme to the general public both in-person and online.