The OMF is fortunate to have a family of dedicated and skilled mindfulness teachers/trainers/researchers and operational staff who share the OMF’s values/mission. They work to deliver the OMF’s goals across research, training, MBCT provision and education. They are a vital, valued and essential part of the OMF.
Kevin Fong
International Advisor & Trainer
I am a mindfulness practitioner who started the mindfulness journey from traditional mindfulness meditation practice, then moving onto learning and teaching MBSR and MBCT. Before becoming a mindfulness teacher, I have a business background working in Asia and Europe for 19...
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Bernat Font-Clos
Retreat Leader
I am a meditation teacher trainee and a postgraduate researcher at the University of Bristol. My dissertation explores the nature of feeling tone (vedanā) and, more specifically, the role of pleasant feeling tones and positive affect in early Buddhist literature. I lead meditation activities online, in Spain,...
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John Ford
Financial and Charity Management Advisor
I am Treasurer, Finance Director and Governing Body member of St Anne’s College, Oxford. I combine over 30 years of international experience in the banking industry with specialist knowledge of charity financial management, risk management, sales and marketing. I am also a Trustee of the Nuffield Oxford...
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Marion Furr
Co-Director Teaching & Training. Teacher, Trainer & Supervisor
I am professionally qualified as an Occupational Psychologist and until 2016, I was Director of Ministerial Business and Parliamentary Accountability at the UK Department of Health (DH) and Chair of the DH Staff Health and Wellbeing programme. After training to teach MBSR/MBCT at Bangor University and Oxford...
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Sheila Gill
Teacher and Mentor
I am an accredited psychotherapist and counsellor with the UKCP & BACP and a member of the BABCP. I have over twenty years’ experience of working as a psychological therapist in the NHS. I have also worked in an educational context for twelve years including nine years at the London School of Economics. I...
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Sharon Hadley
Chief Executive Officer
Working with Chair of the Board of Trustees, I take joint responsibility for OMF strategic leadership. I am a business person who has been fortunate enough to find a field where I love to work. Following many years in leadership roles, I am now a Fellow...
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Robert Hawkes
Mentor for Teachers in Training
Firstly, my ‘core profession’ is a occupational therapist; a wonderful role enabling the individual to return to ‘function’ after a period of illness, disease or injury. A major feature of OT is helping a person to find and maintain ‘balance’ within life. As an experienced occupational therapist I...
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Debbie Hu
Teacher and Trainer
I am the Chief of the Psychiatric Department at the Tainan Municipal Hospital in Taiwan. I specialise in child and adolescent psychiatry and psycho-oncology. I am also a university lecturer. My interest in mindfulness began in 2012 when I started...
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Alex Irving
Teacher
I hold a Masters degree in Teaching Mindfulness Based Approaches from Bangor University and am registered to teach with the British Association of Mindfulness Based Approaches. In addition to my mindfulness training I have a background in Osteopathy with a Masters Degree in Pain Science. What do...
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