About Nicky

Nicky is a Registered Nurse and Mental Health Practitioner with 30+ years experience of working in both mental health and general nursing for the NHS and equivalent, in the UK and  Australia.

She completed her Mindfulness training at the Sussex Mindfulness Centre in 2015 after finding mindfulness practice transformative in her personal life.

She has been teaching mindfulness for wellbeing, depression, addiction and long term health conditions, in NHS and Charity settings ever since.

She is also a supervisor, assessor and trainer of mindfulness teachers in training. She has a Masters Degree in Medical Anthropology, and specialised in how experiences of trauma are experienced and communicated across cultures.

As a Bamba UK registered teacher, she follows the Good Practice Guidelines, receives supervision for her teaching and attends regular retreats, and training.

New 8 week course - Mindfulness for Life

Orientation Day: Monday 20th October from 6pm-7:30pm
8 week course: starting 27th October-15th December from 6-8pm

What is Mindfulness for Life?

The course was developed by the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation to offer mindfulness practices and cognitive-behavioural techniques in a way that is accessible for everybody. The idea is that we are ‘wired to survive not thrive’ but we can use mindfulness to enrich our lives and learn over time to be more present with all of our experience.

The course guides participants in how to apply the learning in everyday life to manage what is painful and difficult and cultivate qualities such as compassion. It supports people to work with challenges, including recurring patterns of thought and behaviour that create suffering. It also supports our capacity to savour life and to flourish. Mindfulness for Life is an in-depth programme intended to cultivate lasting and sustainable change.

What can I expect?

The two-hour sessions, which are taught in a small and informal group setting, follow a consistent pattern starting with a guided meditation practice and followed by reflection on the experiences of the practice. Each session has a helpful mindfulness theme that is woven into the discussions. We often do another short practice or a cognitive exercise and reflect on what can be learned from that. Near the end of each session, the home practices for the following week are given. A handbook as well as audio recordings for the main practices will be provided and there is an invitation to set aside 30 minutes each day for ‘home practice’. Whilst this can be challenging to fit into a busy life, we work with you in order to get the most possible benefit from the class. The intention is that doing the course over 8 weeks is enough time to really embed mindfulness into your life.