Welcome to Everybody Mindful - a place
to begin or continue your mindfulness journey in Doncaster.

"A thorough and engaging course which helped me to focus my thoughts and engage more with those around me. Thank you."

"I want to thank you again from the bottom of my heart for the training and support you gave me through mindfulness and Miracle Morning training. In recent months, I've found that I've had a richer, happier inner life, which I've been externalising in small ways. Now that we are living in more challenging times, I find that the training has given me the resilience to withstand the isolation and financial damage to the business. I'm able to channel my energy in positive ways, rather than dwelling on the negatives. I think that many of us will discover that there are silver linings to be had, and perhaps for some people, the opportunity to take stock in an unprecedented way will lead to wonderful life-changing decisions. For me, it's about Gandhi's words on the attitude of silence leading to crystal clarity."

From personal experience I'd learnt that mindfulness had proved very beneficial for me. But I was keen to learn the science behind it.

When I first retired as a secondary school teacher in August 2017, I spend a week at St Hugh's College in Oxford, learning with what was then called the Oxford Mindfulness Centre (OMC), at their summer school. 

Inspired by Mark Williams book "Finding Peace In A Frantic World" which I'd used personally my wife, Melanie, had enrolled me on the course and I joined people from all over the world.

On the course I became totally immersed in mindfulness and was lectured by leading experts including Mark Williams, Willem Kuyken, Melanie Fennel, and Christopher Cullen.  The course included a day of silence - something I'd never done before.

On the 2017 course I was also fortunate to meet Nick Cook who explained to me that he trained people to become mindfulness teachers in Birmingham - something I was destined to do with him in 2019.

I returned to St Hugh's College in Oxford in August 2018 for another immersive week with the OMC.

The OMC have continued to support my mindfulness journey and I have completed some useful courses including how to teach the "Frantic World" course and how to teach "Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness"

The Oxford Mindfulness Centre are now called The Oxford Mindfulness Foundation with whom I continue to practice and learn.

In 2019 I trained with Mindfulness Now  - Nick Cooke's organisation - at the Central England College based in Birmingham.

Having met the necessary assessment requirements, I was awarded a Certificate in Mindfulness Teaching.

The qualification allows me to teach the Mindfulness Now course which is a hybrid of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

I am registered with this organisation.

• I'm married to Melanie
• We have two grown up children
• I was a secondary school teacher for thirty-four years
• Before going into teaching I worked in the health service in Medical Physics
• I began my mindfulness journey a few years ago
• I developed my skills in mindfulness by training with the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, The Centre of Excellence, The Central College of England and the British Institute of Mindfulness
• I am qualified mindfulness teacher
• I contribute to mindfulness sessions with my fellow professionals 
• I've recently completed my first book

"From time to time I post about mindfulness on this blog. I try to be honest in what I write and share my experiences and how mindfulness is part of my life."