Events
As well as teaching many courses as a tutor for the Mindfulness Association, I also run a monthly drop-in called Fireside Mindfulness and offer retreat days and weekends in person in the UK and Ireland.
UPCOMING
Fireside Mindfulness - monthly drop in at 5pm - 6.30pm on a Sunday or Friday, 2026.
Sunday 31st May
Friday 26th June
Mandala Vision Board Days - online, Saturdays 10am - 3.30pm, 2026:
9th May
12th September
Art To Be Free - online workshop 6.30pm - 7.45pm, 23rd June 2026
Fireside Mindfulness
Online Drop In
NEXT: Sunday 31st May and Friday 26th June 2026 5 - 6.30pm
(Pay what you can afford - suggested: £15)
Expect a different wisdom theme each month and guided mindfulness practice interspersed with poetry, stories, journaling and sharing.
My vision for this is that it will feel a bit like stepping back in time to the ancient practice of fireside storytelling, but with a mindfulness flavour - and the slightly less cosy context of Zoom.
In these sessions we'll listen to a carefully selected little shower of stories, poems or quotes on a wisdom theme, couched in meditation. We'll spend time experiencing our inner response, followed by breakout rooms and sharing.
Fireside sharing was the original way to pass on the wisdom needed to more gracefully navigate being human together. Let's bring it back!
Meetings are on Zoom approximately monthly on Fridays or Sundays. Suggested donation £15, but you're equally welcome if you can't meet this, just reflect honestly on what you feel you can give. Link will be provided on booking.
For all levels of experience.
Mandala Vision Board Day
- the art of being you -
online, 10am - 3.30pm
9th May, 12th Sept, 5th Dec 2026
Listen into the heart of who you uniquely are, beyond what you think about yourself.
‘What have you seen of your own still concealed beauty?
One of these days at dawn,
you will rise from within yourself like a sun’.
(Rumi trans. Helminski and Rezwani)
On this meditative day, you are invited to enter into the mandala of your potential, through creative discovery.
Much of the time we relate to ourselves through what we think about ourselves. And there’s often criticism there. Let’s take time to drop out of all that and get in touch with our true heart using mindful creativity. From here everything looks different.
In an imaginative process (similar to a vision or mood board), using accessible art and/or collage, we will create a personally meaningful mandala image step by step.
Art to Be Free
Contemplative Creativity for Inner Freedom
online workshop 23rd June 2026, 6.30 - 7.45pm
Art to Be Free is a kind of laboratory: a space to experiment with being present, spontaneous, uncensored, and naturally ourselves. A space to take the risk of making our mark. A chance to enjoy form, colour and the feel of creating something from within.
We will treat art-making as a meditation for loosening the grip of the inner critic, perfectionism, and the layers of thinking that can get between us and trusting ourselves, not just while creating or meditating but in daily living too.
Through simple creative exercises, we will explore what happens when we allow ourselves to create without over-controlling the outcome. The aim is not perfection, but presence: finding a pathway through the labyrinth of the thinking mind towards greater freedom and embodied self-trust.
If what emerges on the page pleases us, wonderful. If it doesn’t, that’s okay too and we let go of it. The invitation is simply to show up, express, and discover what becomes possible when we loosen our attachment to results and let ourselves be free.
