I am passionate about social change and my personal experience of trauma, mental health distress and neurodiversity positively informs my work and life. I founded NGO Hope in the Heart in 2012, the same year I developed the AccepTTranscend Model for Transformation, the basis for many of my creative personal development workshops and courses, designed and facilitated internationally.
As a member of the global compassion movement for many years, I believe that compassionate action and relational practice (prioritising relationships over systems) can transform individuals, organisations, and the world. My CARE (Create A Relational Environment) training for organisations and businesses offers bespoke guidance to leaders and teams who wish to bring inspiration, innovation, joy and caring into their working lives, and increase staff satisfaction, loyalty, productivity and all-round success.
As a member of the global compassion movement for many years, I believe that compassionate action and relational practice (prioritising relationships over systems) can transform individuals, organisations, and the world. My CARE (Create A Relational Environment) training for organisations and businesses offers bespoke guidance to leaders and teams who wish to bring inspiration, innovation, joy and caring into their working lives, and increase staff satisfaction, loyalty, productivity and all-round success.
Based in East London (and happy to travel) I am a Lived Experience Consultant, Facilitator and Trainer, an occasional Visiting Lecturer at a number of universities on several continents, Master Facilitator of the UN-endorsed Virtues Project, a qualified Transpersonal Counsellor/Hypnotherapist, a writer, activist, artist, poet, and general wearer of many hats. I specialise in using art, poetry and narrative to inspire and create positive change - and encourage others to do the same.
My recovery from ongoing mental health distress has spanned several decades, and while I am fully integrated within the consensus reality in which I find myself, the door to other levels of consciousness has never completely closed, and my memories of time spent beyond it are precious and vivid. I view this as a priceless gift, and am grateful and proud to be part of a growing global movement committed to changing the paradigm around mental health and wellbeing. It is my mission to support this in any way I can.
