Trish’s background is in community development and social care - and she has over 25 years experience of working with individuals, groups and organisations facilitating learning, training and development.

Trish is an experienced Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) teacher and trainer and has taught MBCT to cancer patients at a regional oncology unit since 2001. She is one of the founder teachers of the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) and is an Honorary Lecturer for the School of Psychology, at Bangor University. Trish teaches on the MA/MSc in Mindfulness Based Approaches and is involved in the training and supervision of mindfulness based teachers.

With a degree in Sociology and Philosophy, she gained an action learning postgraduate Diploma in Management at Manchester in 1990. She spent a year in South Africa in 1997 researching the development process in an isolated rural area. Her first book, ‘Holding Up the Sky - Love, Power and Learning in the Development of a Community’ relates to this work and was funded by the Woodward Charitable Trust and published by Community Links, London in March 2004. The book sets out the principles that underpin her work. She is currently writing a second book about MBCT for cancer. This will be published by Wiley in 2010.