Patrizia Collard is Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at UEL. She also works as an Integrative Therapist, CBT and Mindfulness Trainer and Psychospiritual Coach. She lived in the Far East for nine years (Hong Kong and China) where she developed a uniquely holistic approach. She is a member of many governing bodies (BABCP accred., UKCP, Austrian Association for Behaviour Therapy and the Institute for Health Promotion and Education).
While residing in Hong Kong and China she studied Taoism, Buddhism, Energy work (Tai Chi and Qi Gong), Meditation and Yoga.
In 1995 she started training in Mindfulness-based approaches (Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Christina Feldman); Mindfulness Teacher Development I and II at Centre for Mindfulness and Research, Bangor, North Wales.
She regularly runs work-shops and retreats in the UK, Austria and Menorca.
Rebecca Crane is a Clinical Research Fellow within the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University. She directed the centre through its first six years and is now working as a Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) teacher on the Wellcome funded research on MBCT for depression and suicidality conducted in collaboration with Oxford University. Prior to this she worked in the mental health field as an Occupational Therapist and a psychotherapist. She has written Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy: The CBT Distinctive Features Series; Routledge, 2008.
Professor Michael Eysenck has been Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway University of London since 1987 (Head of Department 1987–2005). He has been Visiting Professor at the University of South Florida, President of the Society for Stress and Anxiety Research, and Chair of the Cognitive Section of the British Psychological Society. His research has focused especially on the effects of anxiety in clinical and healthy populations on cognition including attentional processes), an area in which he has published two research monographs. More recently, he has become interested in the relationship between mindfulness and attention. He has written over 40 books on a very wide range of topics. In addition, he has published more than 150 research articles and book chapters including articles in Psychological Bulletin, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Emotion.
Rick Hanson, PhD is a neuropsychologist. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA, he founded the Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom, edits the Wise Brain Bulletin (see www.WiseBrain.org), and writes for Tricycle Magazine and other publications. His book — Buddha’s Brain: Creating Neural Pathways to Happiness, Love, and Wisdom — will be published by New Harbinger in October. He recently completed a nine year term on the Board of Spirit Rock Meditation, and he has taught at Stanford University, Sonoma State University, the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), New York Insight Meditation Center, and other organizations.
Dr Jansari got his degree in Experimental Psychology from King’s College Cambridge and then his doctorate at the University of Sussex where he conducted research on memory and amnesia. Following a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in the United States at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, he has created an extensive research programme looking at different aspects of memory loss including the development of rehabilitation regimes, the creation of a Virtual Reality assessment of brain damage and impairments in face-recognition (known as ‘prosopagnosia’ or face-blindness). Recently, he has also been conducting research on the intriguing phenomenon of ‘synaesthesia’ or cross-sensory perception: in this condition, an individual upon hearing the word ‘Monday’ will claim to see the colour red! Since 2007, he has been collaborating with researchers at UTAR in Kuala Lumpar investigating the impact of meditation on improving EEG brain signals captured from the motor cortex of the brain; the eventual aim is improve the efficiency of neuroprosthetic devices for amputees or those suffering from paralysis. In 2004, he was awarded the Cermak Award for best research in memory disorders by the International Neuropsychological Society and in 2008, he was awarded a Media Fellowship by the British Association for the Advancement of Science. Currently he is writing an undergraduate textbook on cognitive neuropsychology.
Gladeana McMahon is considered one of the leading personal development and transformational coaches in the UK. She was instrumental in founding the Association for Coaching for which she now holds the positions of Fellow and Vice President. She is also a Fellow of the BACP, The Institute of Management Studies and The Royal Society of Arts. Gladeana is widely published with some 16 popular and academic books on Coaching and Counselling. An innovator, Gladeana is one of the UK founders of Cognitive Behavioural Coaching and currently works as Director, Professional Coaching Standards for Cedar Talent Management and is Co-Director of the Centre for Coaching.
Jenny is the Child Mental Health Worker on the national specialist team on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) at the Maudsley Hospital. Her work here includes organising and speaking at training programmes for parents and professionals, advising and supporting adults with ASD, taking part in clinical research projects with young people with ASD, visiting schools and advising other professionals on autism. In her private practice, Jenny is a specialist ASD counsellor, trainer and consultant, working with individuals, couples and family members.
Steven Stanley is a lecturer in social psychology in the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University. He previously trained in discursive psychology at Loughborough University, where his PhD research was a discourse analysis of the dilemmas of power and identity experienced by doctoral students in the social sciences. Since then, he has become interested in how critical and social constructionist approaches to psychology might be enriched by contemporary cultures of awakening and especially mindfulness theory and practice. Having practised Qigong and meditation for the past ten years, he is currently developing a mindfulness-based approach to social psychology.
Dr Gay Watson trained as a psychotherapist with the Karuna Institute of Core Process Psychotherapy, a Buddhist-inspired psychotherapy training in the UK. She has a first class honours degree and a doctorate in the field of Buddhist Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies of London University. She is the author of Beyond Happiness, (Karnac 2008); and The Resonance of Emptiness (Routledge Curzon 2001) and co-editor of The Psychology of Awakening (Rider 1999). She lives in Devon.
Martin has managed and supervised counselling services at HMP Brixton since he set up the first service there in 1994. The Mind/Body workout group is an integral component; offering both support and an assessment environment for prisoners on the waiting list. The group offers ‘take away’ practices for men to cultivate their own daily, cell-based mindfulness practice. Daily meditations are also broadcast each lunchtime via the prison radio station.
Martin has keenly pursued the integration of eastern contemplative and western psychotherapeutic practices since his own path of personal growth began that same integration in the early 1980s. He’s sat many 10-day retreats in both UK and in India; more recently attending training retreats organised by Jon Kabat-Zinn and associates.
In 1990 he co-founded “Passages to Awareness”; a series of annual camps to explore the integration of mindfulness, therapy, celebration, ritual dance and play. He has facilitated mindfulness workshops on the healing field at Glastonbury festival, and many other summer gatherings, since the late 80s.
Between 1996–98 he completed his MSc at UEL; his research was entitled: “Towards an integration of counselling, clienting and mindfulness meditation”. In private practice he is an MBCT facilitator and an ACT trainer.
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