Saturday, 25th February 2017
Prof Charles F Emmons - What's spiritual about integrative/holistic medicine?
Spirituality in holistic medicine can be observed and understood on different levels. Within the medical establishment spiritual/paranormal elements in "integrative medicine" may be reframed in terms of placebo effect and kept at a distance by leaving them to alternative practitioners, who are sometimes hospital volunteers. From a user perspective individuals vary in their framing of alternative procedures as scientific or spiritual and in how they decide what to use. On a community level holistic wellbeing may include involvement in institutions like churches, pub life and football (soccer).
Prof Charles F Emmons has an MA in Anthropology and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is a Professor of Sociology at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA. His latest book, Chinese Ghosts Revisited: A Study of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences (2017), re-examines extensive field research conducted in Hong Kong in the early 1980s (published in 1982 as Chinese Ghosts and ESP) with contemporary reflections. He has coauthored (with Penelope Emmons) Science and Spirit: Exploring the Limits of Consciousness (2012) and Guided by Spirit: A Journey into the Mind of the Medium (2003). Other publications include At the Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age (1997). He is active in Exploring the Extraordinary, is an honorary member of the Board of Reviewers of the journal Paranthropology, and a member of The Society for Scientific Exploration. He has also made three documentary DVDs in the area of science and spirituality: Drum Dreams (Drum Circles in North America) (2008), Roll Your Own Religion (New Spirituality in North America) (2010), and Science and Spirit(s) (2012). He appears in the TV documentary Ghosts of Gettysburg.
Prof Charles F Emmons has an MA in Anthropology and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is a Professor of Sociology at Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, USA. His latest book, Chinese Ghosts Revisited: A Study of Paranormal Beliefs and Experiences (2017), re-examines extensive field research conducted in Hong Kong in the early 1980s (published in 1982 as Chinese Ghosts and ESP) with contemporary reflections. He has coauthored (with Penelope Emmons) Science and Spirit: Exploring the Limits of Consciousness (2012) and Guided by Spirit: A Journey into the Mind of the Medium (2003). Other publications include At the Threshold: UFOs, Science and the New Age (1997). He is active in Exploring the Extraordinary, is an honorary member of the Board of Reviewers of the journal Paranthropology, and a member of The Society for Scientific Exploration. He has also made three documentary DVDs in the area of science and spirituality: Drum Dreams (Drum Circles in North America) (2008), Roll Your Own Religion (New Spirituality in North America) (2010), and Science and Spirit(s) (2012). He appears in the TV documentary Ghosts of Gettysburg.
Dr Sara MacKian - ‘‘It doesn’t stop at the church door...”: Experiencing healing and community in Spiritualism and beyond
Spiritualism is a religion that is misunderstood, ridiculed and even feared, yet its philosophy is underpinned by a strong narrative of healing. Even Spiritualist mediumship (communicating with the dead) - so often disparaged by wider society as praying on and exploiting the vulnerable - is understood as being essentially about developing a healing relationship between those who have ‘passed to spirit’ and those who are left behind. Spiritualists recognise an otherworldly ‘Spirit’ as playing an active part in everyday life – in church, in relationships, and in everyday places and events; and this serves as a healing framework for daily life. This paper explores some of the ways in which this is enacted, to illustrate how experiencing spirit’s healing presence weaves a coherence around the ups and downs of life because it offers connections, continuity and collective experiences which help to maintain, manifest, and manage a shared sense of community.
In acknowledging and attending to the intangible and otherworldly we draw attention to more than the machinery of the ailing body inhabiting the here-and-now; and relocate that body in the moments, places and relationships which make our lives worth living. I close with some reflections on what we can usefully take from that broader understanding of healing in today’s world where the greatest challenges to wellbeing lie not only in physiological malfunctioning of flesh-and-bone-bodies, but in the social, cultural and spiritual dis-eases of their containing societies.
Dr Sara MacKian is a geographer by training, and is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Wellbeing at The Open University. Her research is wide ranging but the driving theme is a curiosity for how people and organisations interact around issues of health, wellbeing and meaning-making. Recently she has been exploring the use of alternative spiritualties by individuals and organisations to enhance wellbeing and the role of spirituality more broadly in contemporary British society. Using social science and art combined, she explores the relationship between the real and the imaginary, the body and the spirit, this world and the otherworldly. Sara has a particular interest in qualitative methods and creative approaches to social science research and learning. She is the author of Everyday Spirituality: Social and Spatial Worlds of Enchantment (2012). You can read her Everyday Spirituality blog by clicking here, or visit her artwork webpage by clicking here.
In acknowledging and attending to the intangible and otherworldly we draw attention to more than the machinery of the ailing body inhabiting the here-and-now; and relocate that body in the moments, places and relationships which make our lives worth living. I close with some reflections on what we can usefully take from that broader understanding of healing in today’s world where the greatest challenges to wellbeing lie not only in physiological malfunctioning of flesh-and-bone-bodies, but in the social, cultural and spiritual dis-eases of their containing societies.
Dr Sara MacKian is a geographer by training, and is a Senior Lecturer in Health and Wellbeing at The Open University. Her research is wide ranging but the driving theme is a curiosity for how people and organisations interact around issues of health, wellbeing and meaning-making. Recently she has been exploring the use of alternative spiritualties by individuals and organisations to enhance wellbeing and the role of spirituality more broadly in contemporary British society. Using social science and art combined, she explores the relationship between the real and the imaginary, the body and the spirit, this world and the otherworldly. Sara has a particular interest in qualitative methods and creative approaches to social science research and learning. She is the author of Everyday Spirituality: Social and Spatial Worlds of Enchantment (2012). You can read her Everyday Spirituality blog by clicking here, or visit her artwork webpage by clicking here.
Callum E Cooper - Exploring the variety, impact, and presence of 'Hope' within anomalous bereavement experiences: An analysis of fifty cases
Since the publication of a paper in the British Medical Journal (Rees, 1971) highlighting the commonality of anomalous experiences for the bereaved, awareness for such events within social science and healthcare disciplines has steadily increased over time. The most recent studies of such phenomena have report that around sixty per cent of the bereaved claim to experience such events (e.g. Castelnovo et al., 2015). From detailed examinations of previous studies on post-death experiences (see Cooper, Roe & Mitchell, 2015, for an overview) it has been found that a wide variety of perceived interaction with the deceased are reported. These could include: sensing the presence of the dead (including voices, sounds, and smells), witnessing apparitions, poltergeist type activity, dream interaction, electrical disturbances, and symbolic experiences.Previous studies have found that such experiences are therapeutic and bring comfort to the bereaved (Krippner, 2006), unlike other forms of spontaneous anomalous events not associated with deceased loved ones (Sannwald, 1963). Several studies exploring the therapeutic nature of such events reported several positive gains, in terms of emotional and motivational changes as a result of such experiences. One consisted theme reported by experients and concluded by researchers was the obtainment of hope.
This presentation reports on the findings of the second study, which formed part of a PhD into the role of hope within spontaneous post-death experiences, and its purpose in the process of recovery. The first study explored measures of hope in two groups of the bereaved who did (n = 50), and did not (n = 50), report anomalous events. The bereaved who didn’t report such events were found to experience a statistically significant drop in levels of hope. However, those who did report such events appeared to only suffer a marginal drop in hope, suggesting that the anomalous events acted as a buffer to hope and a coping mechanism.
The second study to be presented here, involved a content and thematic analysis of written feedback from the group who did report such experiences (N = 50). The group gave feedback to short answer questions on their experiences (content analysis) and produced written accounts of what happened (thematic analysis). This was done in order to survey the variety of experiences reported, their impact on the bereaved, and further explore the notion of hope’s place and presence within such experiences as a natural aid to recovery. The findings of this study will be presented followed by discussion of future developments.
Callum E. Cooper holds postgraduate degrees in psychology, social science research methods and education, from the University of Northampton and Sheffield Hallam University. He is based at the University of Northampton where he lectures on Parapsychology, Thanatology, Positive Psychology and Human Sexual Behaviour. He is member of organisations such as the Society for Psychical Research (and on the Survival Research Committee), the Parapsychological Association, a Hope Studies Graduate Researcher (University of Alberta), and a member of the Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes (CSAPP, University of Northampton). Additionally, he has appeared on UK and USA radio and TV shows as a representative for parapsychology. Callum is the author of Telephone Calls from the Dead (2012), has edited a collection of Alex Tanous' previously unpublished works entilted Conversations with Ghosts (2013) and is the co-editor (with Steve Parsons) of Paracoustics: Sound and the Paranormal (2015). For more information about Callum, please visit his website by clicking here.
This presentation reports on the findings of the second study, which formed part of a PhD into the role of hope within spontaneous post-death experiences, and its purpose in the process of recovery. The first study explored measures of hope in two groups of the bereaved who did (n = 50), and did not (n = 50), report anomalous events. The bereaved who didn’t report such events were found to experience a statistically significant drop in levels of hope. However, those who did report such events appeared to only suffer a marginal drop in hope, suggesting that the anomalous events acted as a buffer to hope and a coping mechanism.
The second study to be presented here, involved a content and thematic analysis of written feedback from the group who did report such experiences (N = 50). The group gave feedback to short answer questions on their experiences (content analysis) and produced written accounts of what happened (thematic analysis). This was done in order to survey the variety of experiences reported, their impact on the bereaved, and further explore the notion of hope’s place and presence within such experiences as a natural aid to recovery. The findings of this study will be presented followed by discussion of future developments.
Callum E. Cooper holds postgraduate degrees in psychology, social science research methods and education, from the University of Northampton and Sheffield Hallam University. He is based at the University of Northampton where he lectures on Parapsychology, Thanatology, Positive Psychology and Human Sexual Behaviour. He is member of organisations such as the Society for Psychical Research (and on the Survival Research Committee), the Parapsychological Association, a Hope Studies Graduate Researcher (University of Alberta), and a member of the Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes (CSAPP, University of Northampton). Additionally, he has appeared on UK and USA radio and TV shows as a representative for parapsychology. Callum is the author of Telephone Calls from the Dead (2012), has edited a collection of Alex Tanous' previously unpublished works entilted Conversations with Ghosts (2013) and is the co-editor (with Steve Parsons) of Paracoustics: Sound and the Paranormal (2015). For more information about Callum, please visit his website by clicking here.
Dr Natalie Tobert - Cultural perspective on anomalous experiences and mental wellbeing
Using the discipline of medical anthropology, I discuss a variety of cultural ways of understanding ‘mental health’, extreme or anomalous experiences, and the interpretation of symptoms. I explore the extent to which the ancient wisdom of originally remote societies were based on spiritual realities, which westerners had held ‘in secret’, but which are now becoming popular and mainstream. Certain social groups express dissatisfaction with western bio-medical models of mental health diagnosis and treatment. These include peoples whose lands have been colonised; culturally new migrants; service users, carers, or survivors; plus psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners who are aware their training doesn’t fit the spirit of our times. Using contemporary literature and research, I examine the approach taught to medical students about diseases of the brain, chemical imbalance, or the predisposition of certain ethnic groups towards psychosis.
I explore a range of anomalous experiences, and propose they may be part of our normal human faculties. Why does this matter? In the future, I would like to see that those who experience mental distress alongside anomalous experiences or spiritual awakening would encounter enhanced practitioner support. We are on the cusp of a wave of change: I propose we re-evaluate our interpretations of mental well being, and continue to develop new ways of addressing extreme experiences, as part of our core strategy towards social and individual well being.
Dr Natalie Tobert is a Medical Anthropologist and the Education Director of Aethos Training. She is is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and has given conference papers throughout the UK, and facilitated retreats and workshops in Sweden, Switzerland, India, Spain and USA. For over three decades she has specialised in social inclusion education, facilitating participatory training workshops on spiritual and cultural awareness for front line staff at hospitals, medical schools, and universities. Natalie has undertaken original fieldwork research in Sudan, India, and in UK with the NHS and Kings Fund. She co-ordinated the ‘Bridging Cultures’ project, and facilitated mental health promotion events with African and Asian minority ethnic groups. Natalie is the author of Spiritual Psychiatries (2014), which is based on fieldwork in India and the UK, and Cultural Perspective on Mental Wellbeing (2016).
I explore a range of anomalous experiences, and propose they may be part of our normal human faculties. Why does this matter? In the future, I would like to see that those who experience mental distress alongside anomalous experiences or spiritual awakening would encounter enhanced practitioner support. We are on the cusp of a wave of change: I propose we re-evaluate our interpretations of mental well being, and continue to develop new ways of addressing extreme experiences, as part of our core strategy towards social and individual well being.
Dr Natalie Tobert is a Medical Anthropologist and the Education Director of Aethos Training. She is is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and has given conference papers throughout the UK, and facilitated retreats and workshops in Sweden, Switzerland, India, Spain and USA. For over three decades she has specialised in social inclusion education, facilitating participatory training workshops on spiritual and cultural awareness for front line staff at hospitals, medical schools, and universities. Natalie has undertaken original fieldwork research in Sudan, India, and in UK with the NHS and Kings Fund. She co-ordinated the ‘Bridging Cultures’ project, and facilitated mental health promotion events with African and Asian minority ethnic groups. Natalie is the author of Spiritual Psychiatries (2014), which is based on fieldwork in India and the UK, and Cultural Perspective on Mental Wellbeing (2016).
Dr Graeme Nixon -Secular mindfulness and the possibility of naturalistic spirituality
Many of the current criticisms of secular mindfulness discuss an apparent lack of compassionate or spiritual heritage or content in secular approaches and interventions. The ‘instrumentalisation’ of mindfulness has provoked criticism from a range of spiritual or religious commentators and figures about the misuse of mindfulness out with its various putative religious birth traditions. The use of the term ‘secular’ in this context has been described as a prophylactic that, while making mindfulness palatable to the western mind-set, has also rendered it infertile. This paper will argue that much of this criticism relies on false binaries around terms such as spiritual and secular, and that mindfulness whilst perhaps being ubiquitous to religious traditions (to varying degrees) is also present in western philosophy and the scientific temper. Graeme will argue for the recognition that, with a better grasp of secularity (as opposed to secularism), a more inclusive, accessible and, at the same time, pluralistic understanding can emerge.
Dr Graeme Nixon is the programme director of the Studies in Mindfulness MSc programme at the University of Aberdeen. His research interests include philosophy in schools; secularity and spirituality; the rational autonomy of children; values education, and thinking skills. Graeme is also a senior lecturer of Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies (RMPS) at the University of Aberdeen. He teaches on the initial teacher education programmes for primary and secondary student teachers.
Dr Graeme Nixon is the programme director of the Studies in Mindfulness MSc programme at the University of Aberdeen. His research interests include philosophy in schools; secularity and spirituality; the rational autonomy of children; values education, and thinking skills. Graeme is also a senior lecturer of Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies (RMPS) at the University of Aberdeen. He teaches on the initial teacher education programmes for primary and secondary student teachers.
John Darwin & Mike Pupius - Creating a mindfulness sangha
For the past six years we have been running courses in Mindfulness Based Life Enhancement in Sheffield and the surrounding area. MBLE is a course designed to be accessible to people of all spiritual backgrounds. Initially a single teacher, there are now four teachers and five more teachers-in-training. During this period we have established ourselves as the Centre for Mindful Life Enhancement, itself a small but vibrant community of practice, and run 35 courses – by the end of 2016 we will have trained over 500 people. From an early stage it was clear that participants wanted a way to keep in touch and have some form of mutual support. We therefore began ‘Continuation Sessions’ on a monthly basis. These are held in the Multifaith Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, which has been very supportive throughout. To date we have held 47 Continuation sessions, providing participants with the opportunity to explore more deeply themes covered in the MBLE course, including loving kindness, [self] compassion, empathetic joy, equanimity, cultivating emotional balance, the five hindrances, maintaining practice, and forgiveness.
Over the period this has become a community [sangha] of support, practice and shared experience, with over 300 people on the mailing list and regular attendance of 20-30 at sessions. It has led also to regular organised mindful walks, to courses in mindful ageing, and to a sangha conference earlier this year with 80 people attending [and plans for an open conference in 2017]. In addition, we have created a website for use by participants, with a range of support material, and more recently a Facebook group which is also open to others interested in mindfulness. In this paper, we will be reviewing this development, but more importantly exploring the experience of active participants – why they are involved, what they look for in such a community and what they gain from participation. Many people who go on mindfulness courses report difficulty afterwards in maintaining the practice, when they are no longer in a group setting, and we hope that this presentation will address one way of addressing this issue.
John Darwin is co-founder of the Centre for Mindful Life Enhancement, and has been running in courses in Mindfulness Based Life Enhancement at Sheffield Hallam University [and elsewhere] since 2010. After taking a PG Diploma in Community Organisation, John’s first career was in community work in north east England; he then joined Newcastle City Council as a local government officer, later becoming a Chief Officer with Sheffield City Council; and then became an academic, teaching on Masters and Doctoral programmes at Sheffield Business School. During this time he took a Masters degrees in Mathematical Logic and in Business Administration, and completed a Doctorate on “Complexity Theory and Fuzzy Logic in Strategic Management”. He has written a number of books, including Mindfulness Based Life Enhancement in 2014. John has practised meditation [in the SotoZen tradition] for more than 25 years, and is an enthusiastic practitioner of yoga and QiGong. He has a Postgraduate Certificate in Mindfulness Based Approaches, and a Master of Science [with distinction] in Mindfulness Studies. John is currently a Visiting Fellow at Sheffield Business School, and a Teaching Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. He is also a teacher-in-training with Culadasa in Śamatha-Vipassanā: the Practice of Tranquility and Insight. Mike Pupius is a co-founder of the Centre for Mindful Life Enhancement, and has successfully completed an MSc in Mindfulness Studies at the University of Aberdeen, where he explored Mindful Ageing. Following a long career in management with the Royal Mail, he is now a lead trainer and co-facilitator on MBLE programmes, working with local organisations including Sheffield City Council, Kier Services, Manor and Castle Development Trust and the Facilities Directorate at Sheffield Hallam University. Now retired, he is also a Volunteer Park Ranger with the Peak District National Park and a Visiting Fellow at Sheffield Business School.
Nirmala Ragbir-Day - Enhancing inner strength and wellbeing: A value-based approach to healthcare
With today's emphasis on quality of service, how can healthcare professionals deliver the best possible care to patients and, at the same time, feel enriched and supported by their work? How can they thrive, rather than just survive? One of the keys to raising morale in healthcare today is to re-emphasise the importance of values in guiding practice at all levels. For values to be meaningful, they must be owned at a personal level and then integrated into our work. The Pastoral and Spiritual Care Department of South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SWYPFT) is involved in developing models for staff development in relation to values and ethics in health care application to all staff groups.
Pastoral and Spiritual Care in the NHS must be inclusive, accepting of human difference and based on mutual respect. As we learn to listen better to the particular needs of different people in order to provide genuine patient-centred care and so enhance the patient experience, so in turn we better equip ourselves for care which is both effective and fulfilling. The provision of spiritual care by NHS staff should not be seen as another add-on to their hard-pressed time. It is rather the essence of their work, the core of providing holistic care. It enables and promotes recovery and wellbeing in the fullest sense.
This paper summaries the evidence of integrating spirituality in healthcare through spiritual training and development by events offered to staff, service users and carers at SWYPFT. It aims to explore the hypothesis tt values instilled in oneself would lead to high morale, positive attitudes and enthusiasm amongst staff which would then lead to increases in productivity due to reduction in stress and sick leave. This can thereby promote spiritual experiences of cultivating compassion and care to enable an effective and efficient delivery of healthcare to the patient and overall wellbeing. The evidence to support this evaluation is based on open-ended feedback from events offered and follow-up focus groups of participants in using the seven spiritual tools explored in these events. These spiritual tools are meditation, visualisation, appreciation, listening, play, creativity and reflection.
Nirmala Ragbir-Day is a health economist by profession and is currently Spiritual Care Training Coordinator, at the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK. She is a member of the Pastoral and Spiritual Care team and her main role is delivering spiritual training and development to staff, service users and carers of the Trust. She volunteers with the Janki Foundation for Global Healthcare, a UK-based charity promoting spirituality in healthcare and is a member of its strategy group. She also volunteers with the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BK) and coordinates their activities in York, UK. She assists with training and development projects at the headquarters of the BKWSU in India with their Education and Research Wing and at the Global Hospital and Research Centre. Nirmala is actively part of the BK Green Network and has attended and assisted with workshops at their international and national retreats. She is part of the UK BK Green Team and assists in awakening greater environmental awareness and helping people to experience greater well-being through inner peace and universal values.
Pastoral and Spiritual Care in the NHS must be inclusive, accepting of human difference and based on mutual respect. As we learn to listen better to the particular needs of different people in order to provide genuine patient-centred care and so enhance the patient experience, so in turn we better equip ourselves for care which is both effective and fulfilling. The provision of spiritual care by NHS staff should not be seen as another add-on to their hard-pressed time. It is rather the essence of their work, the core of providing holistic care. It enables and promotes recovery and wellbeing in the fullest sense.
This paper summaries the evidence of integrating spirituality in healthcare through spiritual training and development by events offered to staff, service users and carers at SWYPFT. It aims to explore the hypothesis tt values instilled in oneself would lead to high morale, positive attitudes and enthusiasm amongst staff which would then lead to increases in productivity due to reduction in stress and sick leave. This can thereby promote spiritual experiences of cultivating compassion and care to enable an effective and efficient delivery of healthcare to the patient and overall wellbeing. The evidence to support this evaluation is based on open-ended feedback from events offered and follow-up focus groups of participants in using the seven spiritual tools explored in these events. These spiritual tools are meditation, visualisation, appreciation, listening, play, creativity and reflection.
Nirmala Ragbir-Day is a health economist by profession and is currently Spiritual Care Training Coordinator, at the South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, UK. She is a member of the Pastoral and Spiritual Care team and her main role is delivering spiritual training and development to staff, service users and carers of the Trust. She volunteers with the Janki Foundation for Global Healthcare, a UK-based charity promoting spirituality in healthcare and is a member of its strategy group. She also volunteers with the Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University (BK) and coordinates their activities in York, UK. She assists with training and development projects at the headquarters of the BKWSU in India with their Education and Research Wing and at the Global Hospital and Research Centre. Nirmala is actively part of the BK Green Network and has attended and assisted with workshops at their international and national retreats. She is part of the UK BK Green Team and assists in awakening greater environmental awareness and helping people to experience greater well-being through inner peace and universal values.
Martine Moorby - The Inner Smile Self-Care Technique
The Inner Smile is a classic meditation and self-healing technique that sits at the heart of Taoist medicine and spirituality. In Eastern traditional medicine it is considered to be the most fundamental of all the meditation strategies for supporting health. This same technique can also be found in all those spiritual traditions that use the symbols of the chalice, cauldron and grail; as well as the symbolism of the tree of life. In this workshop you will be guided through the actual strategy of the inner smile. There will also be a short explication of its physiological and psychological benefits.
Martine Moorby is a senior tutor in the Spiritual Companions Trust. She is a core member of the team that pioneered and developed the first Ofqual accredited course in spirituality and health, the Diploma in Practical Spirituality and Wellness. Her original career was in education where she was a secondary school head of department. For nearly twenty years she has been working one-to-one and leading workshops in a holistic approach to education, healthcare and coaching. She is an accredited trainer/teacher in Reiki and EFT. Her one-to-one work specialises in post-traumatic stress, anxiety and panic attacks, abuse issues, grief and loss, self-esteem issues, work-related stress and performance. She is passionate about supporting others in the development of their unique talents, interests and personal goals. Besides meeting individuals on a one-to-one basis, for development or therapy, she designs bespoke programmes for groups in a variety of settings, including corporate, professional and educational. For more information, please visit her website.
Martine Moorby is a senior tutor in the Spiritual Companions Trust. She is a core member of the team that pioneered and developed the first Ofqual accredited course in spirituality and health, the Diploma in Practical Spirituality and Wellness. Her original career was in education where she was a secondary school head of department. For nearly twenty years she has been working one-to-one and leading workshops in a holistic approach to education, healthcare and coaching. She is an accredited trainer/teacher in Reiki and EFT. Her one-to-one work specialises in post-traumatic stress, anxiety and panic attacks, abuse issues, grief and loss, self-esteem issues, work-related stress and performance. She is passionate about supporting others in the development of their unique talents, interests and personal goals. Besides meeting individuals on a one-to-one basis, for development or therapy, she designs bespoke programmes for groups in a variety of settings, including corporate, professional and educational. For more information, please visit her website.