Hold yourself gently
Mindhaven (founded by Susan O’Regan) trains people in the skills of mindfulness and self-compassion. Susan has spent over twenty years working as a community and youth worker and training and facilitating groups. She firmly believes in people’s capacity to create meaningful change in their lives and in their communities.
Being naturally contemplative and reflective, Susan discovered mindfulness for herself almost a decade ago, at a time when stress had become a huge factor in her own life.
Being introduced to mindfulness had a big impact on her personally and for years Susan participated on various weekend retreats in both Ireland and the UK. She found herself drawn towards compassion based mindfulness and so in 2015, embarked on a three year Msc (Studies in Mindfulness) run by Aberdeen University in conjunction with the Mindfulness Association.
She found a natural synergy between mindfulness, compassion, community work and adult education. Since graduating, she has been utilising these tools with the wide range of diverse groups that she regularly works with.
