Hello,
My name is Carole Lacy and I live in Kinver, South Staffordshire.
Something was missing.
I’d worked professionally for over twenty years in mental health, am a trained artist, mother and grandmother yet, a few years ago, I felt as though an unidentifiable 'something' was absent in my life.
I wasn’t depressed, although I’m no stranger to depression and anxiety, I was retired from running my business therefore no work stress
- so what was IT?
Since my twenties, I had engaged in various forms of meditation but with limited success in maintaining a regular practice. Then, around 2010, a friend introduced me to the work of Jon Kabat Zinn.
In the late 1970's Jon Kabat Zinn, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, developed the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme. This was aimed at helping people with chronic health conditions that the medical professions could no longer help. It is said that his work was the catalyst for the recent growth in secular mindfulness throughout the Western world.
Having tried all the JKZ cd’s and teach-yourself mindfulness books available, I realised I needed to ‘learn how to do it properly’. Signing up for an 8-week Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) course at Oxford University's Mindfulness Centre (OMC) enabled me to develop the mindfulness practice that for me, and so many others, has been life transforming.
‘Am I too old at 65 to learn how to teach this?’ I asked my daughter one day. Her answer was ‘Hilary Clinton is older than you and running for president of the USA’. It didn’t do Hilary much good but that was my call to action.
In 2016 I signed up and began the intensive training to teach evidence-based Mindfulness courses ie Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and MBCT-L through the world renowned Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP), and Finding Peace in a Frantic World with
Bangor University and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre.
I’m delighted to be able to share these courses and, as a listed teacher with the British Association for Mindfulness Based Approaches (BAMBA), abide by their Good Practice Guidelines.
Mindfulness isn't for everyone, so please get in touch if you'd like a chat about what's involved and how it might help you too.
Warm wishes,
Carole
Contact Carole or call/text 0793 962 3566
My name is Carole Lacy and I live in Kinver, South Staffordshire.
Something was missing.
I’d worked professionally for over twenty years in mental health, am a trained artist, mother and grandmother yet, a few years ago, I felt as though an unidentifiable 'something' was absent in my life.
I wasn’t depressed, although I’m no stranger to depression and anxiety, I was retired from running my business therefore no work stress
- so what was IT?
Since my twenties, I had engaged in various forms of meditation but with limited success in maintaining a regular practice. Then, around 2010, a friend introduced me to the work of Jon Kabat Zinn.
In the late 1970's Jon Kabat Zinn, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, developed the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) programme. This was aimed at helping people with chronic health conditions that the medical professions could no longer help. It is said that his work was the catalyst for the recent growth in secular mindfulness throughout the Western world.
Having tried all the JKZ cd’s and teach-yourself mindfulness books available, I realised I needed to ‘learn how to do it properly’. Signing up for an 8-week Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) course at Oxford University's Mindfulness Centre (OMC) enabled me to develop the mindfulness practice that for me, and so many others, has been life transforming.
‘Am I too old at 65 to learn how to teach this?’ I asked my daughter one day. Her answer was ‘Hilary Clinton is older than you and running for president of the USA’. It didn’t do Hilary much good but that was my call to action.
In 2016 I signed up and began the intensive training to teach evidence-based Mindfulness courses ie Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and MBCT-L through the world renowned Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP), and Finding Peace in a Frantic World with
Bangor University and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre.
I’m delighted to be able to share these courses and, as a listed teacher with the British Association for Mindfulness Based Approaches (BAMBA), abide by their Good Practice Guidelines.
Mindfulness isn't for everyone, so please get in touch if you'd like a chat about what's involved and how it might help you too.
Warm wishes,
Carole
Contact Carole or call/text 0793 962 3566
Carole Lacy trained to teach Mindfulness with the world-renowned Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice at Bangor University and has taken further training with the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, Breathworks and the Mindfulness Association, among others.
She is a registered teacher with BAMBA (the British Association for Mindfulness-Based Approaches) and follows their Good Practice Guidelines.
She is a registered teacher with BAMBA (the British Association for Mindfulness-Based Approaches) and follows their Good Practice Guidelines.
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