About Knighton Mindfulness
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About Knighton Mindfulness
I’m Ali Lambie and since 2022 I have been spending lots of time in Knighton on the Welsh borders where I offer residential courses and retreats. I started Mindfulness Hampshire in 2011 when I was part way through taking a master’s degree in Teaching Mindfulness-Based Courses with Bangor University. A long-time counsellor, I was working in the NHS at the time as Manager of Southampton’s Primary Care Counselling Service and first began teaching Mindfulness to people who’d received counselling within the service and wanted to learn mindfulness to support them in the longer term. This swiftly led to offering courses privately to members of the public.
In time, I gradually increased my independent mindfulness work and left the NHS behind in 2014. Since then I have been offering a whole range of mindfulness events to the general public, to GPs, therapists and within workplace settings.
In 2013, I came across the work of Dr Chris Germer and Dr Kristin Neff in a training known as Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC). This powerful training has become a key offering. Watch a short video of me talking about MSC here or listen to a longer interview of me talking about mindfulness and self-compassion here and giving a podcast interview all about Mindful Self-Compassion here.
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Ali Lambie
I am passionate about and immersed in the worlds of mindfulness, self-compassion, individual and group work and connection with nature! I have a Masters degree in Teaching Mindfulness-Based Approaches from Bangor University (2014, with distinction), am trained and experienced Supervisor and Mentor and an international Teacher Trainer of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) since 2018.
With a background as a psychotherapist in the NHS where I also managed the counselling service for GP surgeries in Southampton for many years, I enjoy supporting people make sense of and respond with greater awareness and skill to both life’s joys and its challenges.
I often partner up with other senior teachers in the field, and also enjoy supporting newer teachers too. I have a deep love of the countryside and am trained in facilitating practice in nature.