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.
Thais Requito
Teacher and Trainer
Prior to becoming a mindfulness teacher, I enjoyed a successful career as an executive in multi-national organisations for over 15 years. The challenges of those fast-paced and high-pressure environments led me to practise mindfulness and discover its benefits both personally and professionally. Willing to...
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Chris Ruane
Trustee
Who am I ? I have been a member of the British Parliament since 1997. In 2013, I set up free mindfulness classes in the UK Parliament. Since then more than 150 British Members of Parliament and Peers have received mindfulness training, along with 250 members of their staff. In 2014, Professor Lord Richard Layard and...
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Jaya Rudgard
Retreat Leader
Jaya (Karen) Rudgard began meditating in 1984, and from 1996 to 2005 was ordained as a nun in the Thai forest tradition in England at Amaravati Buddhist Monastery. She subsequently trained as an Insight Meditation teacher in the USA with Jack Kornfield and Joseph Goldstein and has led meditation retreats and...
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Silke Rupprecht
Guest Trainer
I work as head of research, evaluation and development at training and consulting company Awaris. Before that, I held research positions as a doctoral researcher at Leuphana University, Lüneburg and Amherst College, M.A. and as a post-doctoral researcher at Radboud University, Nijmegen. In my research, I am...
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Leonie Schell
Trustee, Teacher, Trainer, Supervisor and Consultant to the OMF
I’m a mindfulness teacher, trainer and supervisor. In my role as consultant to the OMF, I have supported the development of the OMF’s international collaborations and implementation of training pathway changes. ...
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Dylan Schlosberg
Trustee and Deputy Chairman of the Board
I am Deputy Chairman and work closely with the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer to support the OMF in it’s ambitions. I try to draw on my operational and marketing experience as an entrepreneur having started and worked in various digital businesses. I also like to write songs for musical theatre and have been...
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Zindel Segal
International Advisor
Dr. Zindel Segal is the Distinguished Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders at the University of Toronto Scarborough and a Senior Scientist in the Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. His research has helped to characterize psychological markers of relapse vulnerability to affective...
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Jem Shackleford
Teacher
I am a mindfulness teacher, supervisor and qualified secondary school teacher. It was while living in Taiwan (2001-4) that I became interested in meditation. Later, when I returned to the UK, I began to explore more fully the benefits of mindfulness meditation for people who suffer from recurrent...
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Susie Stead
Teacher
I am a freelance mindfulness teacher, trained and competency assessed by the Oxford Mindfulness Foundation (OMF) and listed with the British Association for Mindfulness Based Approaches (BAMBA), https://bamba.org.uk/. In addition, I have completed introductory...
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