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'Mixed mindfulness' classes with a difference.
Outdoor & indoor options, varied & flexible, a mix of meditation, QiGong, hatha yoga, walking, teaching all in one programme. Learning & skills for wellbeing.
An agile mix...
Mindfulness
Mindfulness
Mindfulness
What does it mean to be mindful? What does it look like in daily life? We can explore the philosophy, the theory, the teaching curriculum and the increasingly compelling pychological and neuroscientific research on mindfulness. The key focus however is experiential, learning from doing and feeling: walking, breathing, meditation, gentle hatha yoga, QiGong. Whatever works for you.
Coaching
Mindfulness
Mindfulness
We all have times when we lose our focus and need some help putting us back on the right direction. A mix of coaching, talking and mindfulness training helps us we explore our priorities: what's important? And crucially, what's not...
Pre-Therapy
Mindfulness
Pre-Therapy
Counselling helped me through depression. It can be cathartic, sometimes revelatory, triggering lightbulb moments... Where appropriate, and if you want to, I can take you gently into these waters (and signpost qualified help where appropriate).
q&a
What's with your name?
I was born in Brazil to a Brazilian dad and an English mum. My dad's dad was Egyptian, my dad's mum Portuguese. A bit of mash-up...
Where did you grow up?
I moved to the UK with mum when I was 8, living for 2 years in South Wales with my grandparents, then to Woking for 2 years, ending up in North Nottinghamshire for school.
Uni?
Balliol College, Oxford, in the early 90s (Modern History). I then did the law conversion route at Nottingham Law School (though I never felt I was as good at Law as I was at History..!)
Professional background?
I qualified as a solicitor in intellectual property and commercial contracts. I realised that private practice was not a healthy option for me long term, so I got out to teach at Nottingham Law School. Since then I've started and built up my own business (training & software for lawyers), had a nervous breakdown, a period of severe depression, then got myself better and back into academia: teaching law and studying for a psychology MSc.
What are your credentials for this kind of work?
I've been life / executive coaching since before my formal Advanced Diploma in 2004. I developed a successful legal sector coaching practice in the Midlands alongside teaching professional courses at Nottingham Law School. I have 'lived experience' of a significant mental health event: a stress-induced breakdown in 2016 involved acute & chronic anxiety and a very severe depression that took me two years to scramble out of. Crucial to this was regular counselling. Inspired by my own experience, I am now a counsellor-in-training and have completed my Level 2 & 3 Counselling Skills qualifications, and will soon begin my studies for the qualifying Level 4 diploma. I am also a trained Mental Health First Aider. Mindfulness is a bedrock for my ongoing wellness and I'm studying for an MSc in Mindfulness-Based Approaches at the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, in the School of Psychology, at the University of Bangor, where I have passed the core mindfulness teaching module.
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