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.
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UPCOMING
Fireside Mindfulness Friday 2nd May 5 - 6.30pm, online
Homecoming - Poetry and Practices for True Refuge, with Kristine Mackenzie-Janson, Scarborough, UK. Friday 30th May - Sunday 1st June
Mandala Vision Board Day - The Art of Being You, 28th June, online
Fireside Mindfulness
Drop In
NEXT: Sunday 6th April, 5.00 - 6.30pm GMT
Friday 2nd May 5.00 - 6.30pm GMT
It's amazing what precious universal wisdom surfaces in these sessions, not from me, but from the group!
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.​
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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!
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Meetings are on Zoom approximately monthly on Fridays or Sundays. Cost: £15. Link will be provided on booking.
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For all levels of experience.
Homecoming: Poetry and Practices for True Refuge
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weekend retreat in Scarborough UK, with Fay Adams and Kristine Mackenzie-Janson, 30 May-1 June 2025
What if peace and fulfilment could be found within us, rather than in external pursuits?
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There is something endearing, honourable and heartbreaking about the way us human beings seem to muddle our way through life. Each of us always attempting to belong, meet our human needs, find love, happiness, fulfilment. Endearing and honourable because there is dignity, tenacity and spirit in our ability to bounce back and find a way through against the odds to survive. Heartbreaking because often our strategies for finding peace and fulfilment are self-defeating and only serve to entrench our struggle – addictions, self-blame and blame of others, endlessly wanting more of this or that, overworking etc…
Mandala Vision Board Day
- the art of being you -
online, Saturday 28th June 10am - 3pm
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.