mind in labor online: SCHEDULES

The Instructor

Jill Beattie, PhD, MN [Education], GradDipMiCBT, RN, RM

Jill Beattie is a mindfulness-based emotional fitness teacher who works with people to meet their needs to enhance emotional wellbeing and resilience. With a background in nursing, midwifery, education and research, Jill delivers mindfulness-based programs within the community and to nurses throughout Australia. She has experience working with people who present with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. Jill conducted a clinical trial with pregnant women into the effects of mindfulness training on stress, depressed mood, and present moment awareness, compared to an active control group pregnancy support program. Jill is delighted to offer mindfulness programs to evolving parents.

The Instructors

Eluned Gold, Msc, RMN, PGCE

Eluned Gold has been working in the field of health and well-being for more than 40 years, as a therapist and mindfulness teacher.  She trained to teach MBSR with Ferris Urbanowski and other teachers from the Center for Mindfulness in Massachusetts in 2001, and later in MBCT with Mark Williams.  Eluned subsequently worked as a Mindfulness teacher and trainer for the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice (CMRP) Bangor University, for 20 years. ​She is excited to be involved with the work of bringing mindfulness to families at the beginning of their parenting journey. 

Michele Kavanagh, MSc, DClinPsych

Michele Kavanagh is a mindfulness teacher and supervisor, and consultant clinical psychologist. She has worked within the UK National Health Services for over 20 years with trauma affected families and carers within looked after children services. She has been teaching trauma sensitive mindfulness to children and their carers since 2002.  She has an interest in delivery of this programme to parents and carers who experience a degree of pressure and vulnerability in their lives.  Her intention is to create a nourishing and gentle learning space where participants connect and cultivate a friendly interest in their lived experience.