Get Switched on!
There is a lot of exciting new thinking taking place about modern health and wellbeing at work and at home.
We have hand-picked an international team of proven health experts who are each now giving you personal perpectives and insights into their professional disciplines so that you can continually improve your health and vitality.
The Gurus
Lucy Thomas
Lucy is the director of Hands on Health UK, she established the company in 2004 after many years of practicing Alternative Therapies.
Lucy finds working in the corporate sector the most rewarding work. Recognising that those people who are ambitious and are striving to work hard, are inevitably going to be under pressure, working long hours and have limited time to access the services that can help counteract this way of life.
Lucy believes that you can’t avoid stress but by looking after your mind and body, you’ll cope a bit better and make better decisions.
Lucy has spent many years helping people to achieve healthy, happy lifestyles through a balance of relaxation, work, exercise, healthy eating and positive action. She takes inspiration from all the bright sparks in this team and anyone who is doing what they truly love in life.
Lucy also runs a Spa Recruitment Agency Indigo people.
Jay Rossi
Jay Rossi has been teaching Yoga for 20 years and is regarded as one of the most gifted teachers in the Kashmir Yoga Style. His approach is light-hearted with laughter and banter throughout the sessions. Although the sessions are not a serious affair, Jay is very serious about the positive benefits of that yoga can have on your body and your life.
Author of the book ‘Yoga of the Ancient Kashmir Tradition’
John C. Parkin
John C. Parkin is the bestselling author of ‘F**k It: The Ultimate Spiritual Way’ and ‘The Way of F**k It’. Five years ago he realised that saying F**k It was as good as all the eastern spiritual practices he’d been studying for 20 years. Having said F**k It to a top job in London, he escaped to Italy to set up the retreat centre
The Hill That Breathes, where he now teaches regular ‘F**k It Weeks’ with his wife Gaia.
He writes regularly on his website (www.thefuckitway.com) and has been featured on T.V., such as The Graham Norton Show, and in the national press, including The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, Psychologies, Cosmopolitan and Red Magazine.
Shelagh Grandpierre
With her roots in fashion (70’s) and personal development (80’s), Shelagh is a leading teacher within the UK and European fraternity of Tai Chi and Qi Gong. She is an honoury Vice President of the Tai Chi Union for Gt Britain.
Having dedicated herself for over 34 years to refining her knowledge and skills within these arts, she has an international following through her overseas teaching seminars.
Her passion has always been with the core and essence of these oriental arts of mind body and spirit, with their origins deep in the philosophy of Tao. Her focus is on personal and energy cultivation with a very modern approach, enhancing health happiness and longevity.
Daniella Mosscrop
Daniella is an accomplished physiotherapist, qualifying 13 years ago from Sheffield Hallam University, and has a Masters degree in Neuromusculoskeletal Physiotherapy from UCL (2003), which included a manipulative qualification. Her Master’s research proved the efficacy of acupuncture in treating TMJ jaw pain, which resulted in a publication in 2006. She has been running a physio clinic and Pilates studio in Nottingham since 2006. Dani is a qualified Pilates instructor, and has been teaching Pilates for the past four years, both in her Pilates Studio, and off-site at companies and clubs.
Jessica Donovan, Naturopath
www.bounceoptimumhealthandwellbeing.com
Jessica is an Australian Naturopath, a specialist in live blood analysis, and the founder of Bounce Optimum Health & Wellbeing. She is a widely read features writer and vibrant speaker, whose enthusiasm motivates her audiences to make positive, life-enhancing changes to their lifestyle. Jessica is passionate about helping people achieve a better quality of life and enhanced vitality using nutrition, lifestyle & natural medicines.
Martin Knox
Seer of potentials, Creative thinker, Solver of problems, Tweaker of egos, Enemy of the ordinary, Crusader against mediocrity, Shaker of foundations, Speaker of truths, Challenger of crapness
What I do?
Show leaders just how much the way they are reflects and impacts on their businesses, their products and how those are received by their customers. Show these people how to present themselves, their organisations and their products in ways that truthfully reflect their positive values. In short I can design or re design a business with my clients and I can develop their brand. I can show them how to begin to get back the trust of their audience. I can help organisations in to new ways of happily composing their business. I can help an organisation decide what success means and to achieve that thing.
Meher Engineer
Meher is a Teacher and perpetual Student/Explorer who bridges different models of understanding and different paradigms with apparently effortless ease.
She always wanted to study Medicine, and specifically to be a GP.
Meher qualified as a doctor in 1990 and started her GP specialisation in 1991.
She has explored various modalities including Zero Balancing, Reconnective Healing and Monocrom, as well as sound in various forms. She is very fond of the Bach Flower Remedies and the Australian Bush Flower Essences. She is currently very involved with her work as a Supercoherence Practitioner, using a system that was pioneered by her Mother, Thrity Engineer, and the American engineer and genius Patrick Richards. The thread that connects all her work is that it is all based on vibrational, non diagnostic systems of healing, growth and evolvement which focus on enhancing function by dialoguing with the body’s innate wisdom and en-abling that, rather than focusing on dys-function. Meher holds a view of the Human as being limitless potential and wisdom (even though we do not always express or manifest this!).
Mark Seabright
Mark Seabright is a London based business psychologist and consultant who works with leaders of people businesses in the areas of strategic and behavioural change.
Mark is a qualified accountant, holds a diploma in clinical hypnotherapy and is insured to teach T’ai Chi and Qigong. He is also completing his studies for an MSc in Organizational Behaviour with a research project on awareness training.
Helen Keightley
Helen Keightley is an independent Image Consultant based in the East Midlands, having qualified as a Full Member of the Alicia Kite Academy.
Helen is married with 3½ year old twin boys so she knows exactly what it is like to lead a hectic life and therefore is very approachable, friendly and understanding.
Helen can show you how to build your wardrobe, not replace it, helping you to put clothes together that flatter your figure and make you feel amazing you don’t have to spend a fortune to look your best. Helen can help your feel more confident in your body, your clothing and your overall image, just by using your own clothing and showing you how to dress for your shape and your lifestyle.
Helen also undertakes Personal Shopping, helping you find exactly the right outfit for the occasion or simply to build on your existing wardrobe. She has an excellent retail knowledge and keeps up to date with the latest trends, as well as knowing where to shop for classic pieces.
Maybe you have had a baby and you don’t like your post pregnancy figure, you may have recently lost or gained weight and don’t know how to dress for your new shape, you may want to wear more accessorises but don’t know where to start, you may spend a fortune on clothes but ‘never have anything to wear’.
If any of these sound familiar to you then you may just need the help of an Image Consultant.
Vicki Espin
www.cecoach.com
vicki.espin@cecoach.com
Corporate and Executive Coach
Co-founder and Director of The Corporate and Executive Coaching Organisation
Founder of Extraordinary Women UK Conference & Awards
Vicki is a highly skilled, professional corporate and executive coach with more than 20 years’ experience of working with UK and multi-national organisations representing a wide spectrum of business sectors. Acclaimed as one the UK s top executive coaches, her work includes 1:1 coaching and team coaching with business leaders, the training of new coaches within organisations and of professional coaches.
Vicki was Director of Coach Development for the Coaching Academy, Europe’s leading coach training organisation for 5 years (2000 – 2005) where she tutored more than 5000 aspiring coaches and is now one of just 11 Global Fellows of the Academy.
Vicki holds an MA in Human Resource Strategy and a Post Graduate Certificate in Coaching Supervision. Passionate about the appropriate training of coaches for organisations Vicki served for 2 years on the original steering group which designed and developed the National Occupational Standards for Coaching at Work. She also authored and delivers the ILM Level 7 Diploma and Certificate in Executive Coaching which won the Training Journal 2008 award for Best Coaching Programme and a 2009 National Training Award.
An accomplished speaker, Vicki has spoken at national and international conferences, and has co-authored publications on cultural diversity and personal development. Vicki’s inspirational style of coaching means that she approaches every client relationship with a unique energy that results in the forming of powerful and transformational partnerships which lead to the achievement of extraordinary results.
Diane Fisher
Diane Fisher
www.activeaims.co.uk
Initially qualifying as a PE teacher, then, exploring alternative health related avenues.
Serco leisure provided a fabulous insight into the health and leisure industry. Firstly as a health club manager then subsequently as a research assistant. The research was for Serco group to explore the factors affecting employee motivation and membership retention.
At this time I became a health and exercise specialist accredited by The American College of Sports Medicine.
The experience and combination of research, technical skill and management experience was a great foundation for progression.
In 2002 Active Aims Ltd was established and we focused primarily on personal training and writing accredited material for organisations within the fitness industry.
My personal training clients were primarily CEO’s of large companies or business people needing to regain a sense of balance between business and personal life. It became obvious that there was and intrinsic link between performance and wellbeing.
In 2005 we were delivering workshops to large companies on the link between performance and wellbeing, and providing coaching for staff at all levels. This enhanced my personal skill set, I took formal coaching qualifications and laterly a postgraduate in psychological coaching.
Diane’s community based programme ‘Libraries for Health Libraries for Life’ has been established for five years and is currently sited as best practice by David Behan the Department of Health’s Director General for Social Care.
