Profile

I have been practising mindful meditation for over 40 years. I have a long-standing interest in mindfulness for wellbeing, flourishing and for cultivating a more compassionate relationship to ourselves, to others and to our world. In addition to teaching and training the 8-week MBCT and MBCT for Life courses, I have been privileged to work with Professor Willem Kuyken, Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, on developing resources for those who wish to continue to practise mindfulness beyond the 8-week course for example the new 12-module 'Deepening and Sustaining Mindfulness' programme and researching different possible formats for such programmes. As MBI:TAC Lead for OMC, I have worked with Rebecca Crane and others to develop addenda for assessing those teaching mindfulness in workplace settings, and on a training pathway for those interested in using MBI:TAC for self-reflection, supervision, training and assessment.

For many years I worked with my husband, an architect, to build up and run an award-winning architectural practice. Alongside this I studied and later worked as a supervisor on six-month retreats in Scotland, combining meditation and mindful awareness practice with study of some of the world's great wisdom traditions.