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Impact Award
I was absolutely thrilled last month to have been awarded an Impact Award at the Merit & Basecamp Awards Ceremony at Gloucestershire Constabulary. My award fell under the “Supportive Leadership & Wellbeing” category – and I am hugely impressed that this category exists. It’s high time the police got in the habit of recognising how…
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Podcast Meditation News – listen here
In November 2023 I spent some time with Olly Mann – who hosts the award-winning Modern Mann podcast. In his episode “Hearts & Minds” I spoke to him about my experiences in Iraq and other tough environments where I learned to dig deep on my own resilience, as well as my work with the police…
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Mindfulness, Meditation & Brain Training
Over the past year I have been running hour long Introduction to Meditation classes and ongoing guided meditation sessions for groups of public service workers – many of them in the emergency services. Feedback from participants has been amazing – showing some real benefits, and I find it a calming, relaxing experience myself. I also…
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One-Day Forest Meditation Retreat
The retreat takes place in a 30 acre estate in the heart of the Forest of Dean. The land is a mixture of ancient woodland and wildflower filled pastures with far reaching views across the Forest and the twisting River Severn. The estate is home to boar, wild ponies, cattle and a host of birds…
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Top tips for resilience building
Here are my top five tips for leaders new to the notion of resilience-building.
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What is a Wellbeing Audit?
I focus on resilience building, promoting self care and wellbeing intervention. Primarily I work with emergency services and NHS workers via help help uk, but my approach can be applied to any employer where staff work in a trauma/high stress environments, or where there is a high turnover of staff and high levels of sickness…