PUBLISHED BOOKS/RESOURCES

· Pavilion Publishing & Media:  Resilience at Work, The Resilience Coaching Toolkit

· Jessica Kingsley (Singing Dragon):  Integrative Wellness Coaching – How to Incorporate Wellness Coaching into Your Therapeutic Practice

· Octopus (Spruce): Everyday Calm

· Management 2000:  The Yin-Yang of Business Communication – Secrets of Profitable E-Commerce – The Complete Beginners Guide to the Internet – Marketing your Website –  Secrets of Successful Online Training – Creating an Employee Wellness Programme

· Gower:  675 Ways to Develop Yourself and Your People

· Introduction to Mentoring (accredited learning pack for Sussex Careers Services)

· Mentoring in Community Education and Mentoring in the Workplace (accredited learning packs for WEA)

· New Horizons (accredited learning pack on personal and career development for the University of Sussex).

· Findhorn Press:  Women’s Wisdom: natural wellness strategies for the menopause years – Women’s Wisdom: natural wellness strategies for pregnancy – Women’s Wisdom: natural wellness strategies for menstrual years.

· Trotman:  Getting into Complementary Therapies – Getting into Healthcare Professions – Getting into Physiotherapy – Getting into Nursing & Midwifery – Directory of Nursing & Midwifery 2005 – Medicine Uncovered

· How to Books:  Career Planning for Women – Finding a Job with a Future – Career Networking – Learning New Jobskills – Turn Redundancy into Opportunity (3rd edition)

· Internet Handbooks:  Education & Training on the Internet – Graduate Job Hunting on the Internet – Overseas Job Hunting on the Internet – Career Guidance on the Internet – Working from Home on the Internet – Human Resource Management on the Internet

PUBLISHED FEATURES/COLUMNS

· Book reviewer: Positive Health, Making Money, Working from Home, Careers Guidance Today.

· Features: Making Money, Bella, Choice, Active Life, InForm (Bank of Scotland), Bella, Business Opportunity World, Working from Home, Fidelity (Journal for National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists), Good Health, LighterLife, Health Advisor, Yoga & Health, Prediction, Positive Health, Reflexions (Journal for Association of Reflexologists), Association for Coaching (site & journal).

· Business coaching columns: International Stress Management Association, National Council of Psychotherapists and Association for Reflexologists.

HEALTH, WELLBEING & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXPERIENCE

· Founder, Director of Studies, supervisor  and principle tutor for Wellness Professionals at Work (2002-2022)

· Complementary therapist and wellness coach with over 30 years’ experience.

· Accredited supervisor (National Council of Integrative Psychotherapists)

· Journaling and oral storytelling:  facilitating groups and individuals in issues relating to breast cancer, secondary cancer, miscarriage, diabetes, menopause, stress, IBS,  insomnia  – cancer clients have been NHS referred – I have used journaling and oral storytelling with wellness professionals as part of their CPD

· Guest positions: Learning Skills Council (reflexology, nutrition, resilience management) – Holland & Barrett (reflexology) – Brighton & Hove City Council (resilience coach for the Ninelives Campaign).

· Media work: BBC Radio: natural health/beauty, HRT/natural menopause care – Meridian TV: resilience.

· Designed and delivered wellbeing courses for: University of Brighton (Institute of Nursing and Midwifery) – Sussex Hospital Trust – Sussex Career Services – WEA – University of Sussex (Centre for Continuing Education) – University of Sussex (liberal education) – Sussex Down College – Brighton and Hove City College – Aintree University Hospital (diabetic nurses) – Business & Professional Women – Seeboard – Social Service Family Centres – Dryad.

· Wellness charities: Turning Point Charity (provision of wellbeing coaching resources and wellness coach training for nurses at Manchester University Hospitals NHS for heart failure/COPD and Earl’s Court Health & Wellbeing Centre, London) – Aspirations Active (training and development coach) – International Stress Management Association (stress advisor for National Stress Awareness Day 2008 and business coach) – MIND (staff training in stress management) – Tinnitus Association (workshop delivery to service users) – Breast Cancer Care (workshop delivery to service users) – CancerBackup (feature writer) – CancerHelp UK (reviewer of complementary health material) – Nigel Porter Unit, Royal Sussex County Hospital (for nine years, a complementary therapist working with breast cancer clients at diagnosis, pre and post-surgery. I supported women through hormone treatment, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. I wrote a series of patient newsletters for the unit. I facilitated a therapeutic writing group working with women).

· Cancer experience: Expert panellist on nutrition and complementary therapies for Amoena Life Magazine (for women who have had breast cancer) – Cancer-related articles: Positive Health (Working with Cancer Patients: nutritional and complementary approaches), Reflexions (case profile for breast cancer aimed at reflexologists) – Visiting lecturer at Institute of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Brighton (Cancer Nursing Pathway Course) – complementary therapist with the Sussex Cancer Centre, Royal Sussex County Hospital – Visiting speaker/facilitator on nutrition, visualisation and relaxation for Breast Cancer Care – complementary therapist on a Clinical Study of HRT in Women being treated for Breast Cancer at the Sussex Cancer Centre, Royal Sussex County Hospital – coaching NHS staff in using imagery for pre-surgery anxiety.

TUTORING/TRAINING EXPERIENCE

· Designed and delivered courses for University of Brighton (Institute of Nursing and Midwifery) – Sussex Hospital Trust – Sussex Career Services – Breast Cancer Care Charity – WEA – University of Sussex (Centre for Continuing Education) – University of Sussex (liberal education) – Sussex Downs College – Brighton & Hove City College – Business & Professional Women – Seeboard – Social Service Family Centres – Lewes Prison – International Stress Management Association – MIND – British Gas – Dryad – Tomorrow’s People and BH Ltd (government employment initiatives) – Let’s Do Business Group.

· Director of Studies for Wellness Professionals at Work covering the design and delivery of accredited and CPD coaching courses.

· Supervision of students, tutors, complementary therapists and nurses on health-related courses.

· Trained personnel to qualification level in wellness coaching/resilience management who have worked for; West Sussex County Council – Protocol Skills – Ford Motor Company – Priory Group – South Downs NHS Health Trust – Travellers Worldwide – American Express – Tower Hamlets Council – Brighton & Hove City Council – University of Sussex – Emirates Airlines.

· Project manager of European Social Fund Project on Rural Access in Sussex delivering career & personal development, IT and literacy; co-ordination of adult students and supervising tutors (University of Sussex) – Manager of career development centre; delivering government guidance programmes and coaching sessions.

CAREER & SMALL BUSINESS COACHING EXPERIENCE

· Business start-up mentor and group trainer with Let’s Do Business Group (NEA Scheme).

· Consultancy work with private clients for business start-up and business development

· Designed/delivered career & small business courses: Sussex Career Services – WEA – University of Sussex (Centre for Continuing Education) – Sussex Downs College – Brighton & Hove City College – Business & Professional Women – Social Service Family Centres – OU – British Gas – Lewes Prison.

· Media work: BBC radio/managing redundancy – Asked to appear on BBC’s, The Money Programme giving redundancy advice.

· Project manager of European Social Fund Project on Rural Access in Sussex, delivering career/personal development (University of Sussex) – Manager of career development centre delivering government training/guidance programmes.

QUALIFICATIONS:  NVQ 4 in Guidance – TDLB Units D32, D33, A22, C21, C23 and C27 – Cert. Ed. – Diploma in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – Advanced Diploma in Wellness Coaching Skills – Advanced Diploma in Professional Stress Management – RSA Certificate in Counselling Skills in the Development of Learning – Practitioner Certificate in Reflexology – Certified HypnoBirthing Practitioner – Diploma in Nutrition – Reiki Master/Teacher CPD:  Precision Reflexology – Facial Reflexology – Bardic Level of The Order of Bards, Ovates & Druids – Accredited Certification in Therapeutic and Reflective Writing – Accredited Certification in Mindfulness Rooted Ecotherapy

MEMBERSHIP:  Society of Authors, Alliance of Independent Authors