BIO

My father was an alternative practitioner. He taught me that the body is designed to heal itself, and the spirit is designed to grow and expand. He showed me that as a nature-cure practitioner his job was to support and assist the natural process of healing and growth. This made perfect sense to me!

Following a rebellious and somewhat mad adolescence, I fell upon Robert D’Aubigny’s extraordinary and ground-breaking Exegesis Programme. For the first time I was in a group situation, emphasising consciousness, self-awareness and personal transformation. Wow. I stuck around with the people I met there for a good 20 years, exploring how those values could be applied in work situations as well as in personal lives.

Across those 20 years I evolved from a voice trainer, through HR Director, Marketing Director and Team-building Trainer, to Organisational Change consultant and facilitator, and finally Board-level facilitator and executive coach. A meaty transition to be sure. Much growth was involved, tears and laughter. It was all very real.

Just as it was starting to feel like time to peel off and set up on my own, through that organisation I met the remarkable folk at Surrey University’s Human Potential Research Group, founded by the father of Humanistic Psychology, John Heron. Through their Masters degree I recognised that my highly facilitative style was in fact Humanistic. They taught me how to hone my approach, and threw in a raft of new techniques to boot. Armed with all this juiciness I set off for the next 20 years deepening and expanding my Humanistic practice.

Meanwhile ~ back in 1998 ~ through one of my tutors I met the amazing and talented Lesley Grantham (now Grantham-Brooks), who introduced me to the magic of Reiki. An old-school teacher, Lesley led me through the in-depth and challenging journey to my Reiki Masters.

Astonishingly ~ or maybe not ~ the resulting infusion of energy, awareness and intuitive faculty transposed instantly and seamlessly into my work. My observational skills, flexibility and unexplained bursts of wisdom were much appreciated by clients!

Also in 1998, the same Masters tutor asked me, ‘Do you like to dance?’ … ‘Yes why?’ … ‘Great, why not come with me to a dance event?’

This event turned out to be a seven-day camp near Totnes UK with a large group of hippy types dancing their hearts out for hours and hours day and night, along with body painting, dancing naked in the rain, and more ~ you get the idea. Tribal Heart ~ great name.

This was my first exposure to Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms Dance movement meditation practice. I absolutely loved it. Again, the experience transposed into all aspects of my life. Energy, expressiveness, emotional fluidity, creativity were heightened. In 2005 I stepped onto the path to 5Rhythms teacher accreditation, accomplished in 2010.

So we’re still in the 20-year period immediately following ‘going independent’. My work was evolving with each project. I developed my unique technique for ensuring the success of every developmental programme ~ the Self-Assessment & Development Planning piece. I won’t go into detail now ~ but suffice to say that this technique set things up for highly successful outcomes.

The secret? For my Masters dissertation I interviewed 39 senior execs and asked them, ‘How has it been for you, using external consultants?’. They told me exactly what they were ~ and were not ~ happy with. I simply learned from that and built in all the necessary steps to make sure everybody’s happy. It worked.

By 2017 I was ready to let go of working with corporates. Frankly ~ the admin, the travel, and the nights away from home had become unappealing. It was time. I switched into working with clients privately. Alongside this I developed my work with energy techniques and conscious dance.

In 2018 my old friend Julie Parker returned from 15 years in Australia with a fresh new energy technique modality. Pellowah. ‘What is that?’, I asked. ‘Radical Shift in Consciousness’, she said.

Have you ever had an almost physical rushing of energy through you that shouts YES? Well, that’s what I felt then. I was on the Attunement Workshop within ten days and loved every minute of it. Pellowah became a juicy piece of nourishment for me, and a delightful option for clients. I took the teacher training in 2022 and began offering the Attunement Workshop in early 2023.

Meanwhile ~ the Truth & Transcendence podcast was born. Thanks to the support of our wonderful listeners, and an array of magnificent guests, we achieved the top 3% globally. The show is enjoyed in over 100 countries.

In early 2024 I felt the call to create a brand new body of work based on my lifelong ‘Superpower’: Freedom of Spirit.

Freedom of Spirit has continued to evolve since then. It now offers several ways to explore the work, from SOLO, Foundation and Refresh through to the accredited pathway of Practitioner Level 2 and Facilitator Level 3, with Activation supporting the journey along the way.

I still love my work and don’t anticipate stopping until they cart me off. Coaching, group work, energy and movement practices, podcasting and Freedom of Spirit ~ these all work together beautifully.

What I’ve learned over the years is that they are not separate strands, but different ways of exploring what it means to be fully alive, fully ourselves, and free to become what comes next.

I live in rural Wales with four cats and a ridiculous population of birds and sheep, all singing their hearts out on a regular basis. Delightful. Sometimes there are yellow roses in the hedges.