I am a Mindfulness Coach, Art Teacher and Professional Artist with over fifteen years' experience studying and practising meditation. I was a Buddhist nun for seven years. I have seen from personal experience how mindful awareness can help people free stuckness and discover who they really are, enabling them to live more creatively, joyously and compassionately.
 

A member of the Association for Coaching, I offer completely confidential Mindful Creativity Coaching in person, online and by phone. I use a wide range of methods drawn from meditation, coaching, teaching and therapeutic art as needed. I aim to help you clarify your deepest values, aspirations and beliefs and discover ways to express yourself in any aspect of life that feel most meaningful and authentic.
 

The issues we can explore include but are not limited to:

 

Help connecting with and expressing your deepest self - explore integrating mindfulness, spiritual counselling, creative expression and coaching

 

Support on your path of healing, self discovery and personal development, enabling you to combine creative activity with ME, MS, physical disability, depression and stress

 

Support for women: women often find difficulty giving themselves permission to nourish themselves through creative activities. This includes learning to balance creative work with other areas of your life, such as relationships, time management, physical health, social and family life and spirituality

 

Support finding creative ways of navigating life transitions such as parenthood, retirement, divorce and other life crises. This may include support developing skills and confidence to get going doing art work
 

Support going professional with creative practice, including making a business plan, or if you are already a creative professional, support with professional development to move your business forward, deepen and progress your creative work or change direction
 

Mindful Creativity Coaching as CPD personalised to focus on what you want to explore

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ENQUIRIES AND BOOKINGS: 01379 897393

What is Mindful Creativity Coaching?

Life Coaching and Mindful Creativity Coaching are confidential conversations between the coach and client in which as your coach I aim to support you in moving on from feeling stuck or frustrated with any issue in your personal, professional, creative and spiritual life. The conversations we have together aim to help you clarify your issues, aspirations and goals, explore options for moving forward and put into action choices you arrive at for moving forward to fulfill your aspirations.

 

This can be a simple direct process, or more often, a more convoluted process, as coaching may also include becoming more aware of negative thoughts and self limiting beliefs sabotaging your development, and finding ways of turning these around so that you can then move on.

 

My role as your coach is to be totally non-judgemental and to support you in defining your aspirations, exploring options for moving forward, creating realistic plans and putting these plans into action. This may also include some honest self examination of anything preventing you moving forward - such as blocks and negative self beliefs. 

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Depending on your interests and wishes, I offer a range of methods from my training and background in life coaching, mindfulness, meditation, therapeutic art, mental health and teaching to help you on your coaching journey.

About Mindfulness

Mindfulness involves being aware of and paying attention to what is happening, as it is happening. This includes awareness of seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting, thinking, feeling, and bodily energy as we experience them. Mindfulness can be used in a secular way just to relax and improve health and well being, or it can also be part of a path of waking up to who we really are at the deepest level.

 

Contrary to popular belief you do not have to be able to stop thinking in order to learn to do mindfulness meditation! We just need to be aware of whatever our experience is as it is happening.

 

By becoming more aware of ourselves, we begin to notice knee-jerk reactions to situations and challenges which cause us unnecessary suffering. With practice, our minds can begin to relax and become open to choosing new, more beneficial ways of responding. With more practice we begin to appreciate ourselves and the world around us with more awareness, clarity, wisdom, love, joy and compassion. We make friends with ourselves and our experience.

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The origins of mindfulness

While Mindfulness can be learned in a non religious way, it can be useful to understand the background to mindfulness. Mindfulness meditation is an awareness practice originating 2500 years ago in Buddhist meditation practices and other spiritual traditions worldwide. For Buddhists, meditation and mindfulness is a spiritual practice which can lead to enlightenment, or the full realisation of who we are in our essence.

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The Benefits of Mindfulness

For centuries meditators, doctors and healers in eastern traditions have found that mindfulness and meditation improve health and well-being. Recent scientific research has documented how regular meditation and mindfulness helps many health problems, including heart disease, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, insomnia, chronic pain, cancer, immune problems, stress and depression. The NHS has now taken Mindfulness on board.

 

Mindful Life Coaching and Mindful Creativity Coaching

Mindful Life Coaching and Mindful Creativity Coaching aim to help you become more aware so that you are better placed to make choices that really help you integrate who you are with what you do. As an awareness tool, Mindfulness is an ideal partner to Life Coaching and Creativity Coaching in helping you to understand yourself better and enjoying life more.

 

Mindfulness learned from an experienced teacher or coach can really complement and deepen your coaching experience. As there are a lot of misunderstandings about what mindfulness and meditation really are, it is important to learn mindfulness or meditation from someone who is experienced with an established long term training and practice.