About Me

TRAINING

Susie is an experienced freelance mindfulness teacher, trained and accredited by the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation (2017). She has also completed  Foundational Mindfulness-Based Supervision and Mentoring with the Mindfulness Network (2022).

Additional training:  Introductory Cognitive Behavioural Therapy,  Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness  and workshops on:  Mentoring,  Mindfulness and Neurodiversity, Autism and ADHD.

She has practised meditation in a different tradition for many years and began practising mindfulness in 2011 after reading Jon Kabat-Zinn and being caught by his description of Mindfulness as ‘Falling Awake’ to life.

 

TEACHING,

Susie has been teaching mindfulness since 2018. She teaches on line and in-person in Oxford.  She teaches the general public and specific requested groups. She is part of a small team who teaching Finding Peace to Oxford University Students.  She has also taught courses to junior doctors, parents and family practitioners.

She teaches the following courses:

Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBT),

 

Mindfulness for Life (MBCTL),

 

Finding Peace

 

Introducing Mindfulness.

 

MENTORING & SUPERVISION

1:1 Mentoring  either to help establish regular practice and support a deepening mindfulness journey or to offer a tailored 1:1 course

She offers supervision for new teachers.

BACKGROUND

Susie is a published, award-winning writer with a background in writing and producing drama in schools, community settings and with people with experience of mental distress. Her particular passions are around creativity and freedom 😊.  Her experience is that mindfulness practice both supports creativity and offers us the possibility of more choice and agency in our lives.

Susie lives for the moment in East Oxford.

For more information please visit her website

One of her favourite ‘mindfulness’ poems is by R D Laing:

The range of what we think and do

is limited by what we fail to notice.

And because we fail to notice

there is little we can do

to change

until we notice

how failing to notice

shapes our thoughts and deeds.