My path has not followed a single discipline. I am a qualified psychotherapist and craniosacral therapist, a certified mindfulness teacher, a programme designer, an author, and the director of non-profit educational organisations. What connects these roles is a long-standing conviction: that the inner life of children and youth — their capacity to feel, to focus, to relate — is not separate from their education. It is education.
My professional path began in health and contemplative practice. I trained as a psychotherapist and as a craniosacral therapist (BCST), and I became a certified mindfulness teacher (IMTA-CMT-P). These were not detours — they were the foundation. Working with the body, the nervous system, and the mind in clinical and therapeutic contexts gave me a level of understanding of human regulation that shapes everything I do, in education and in my clinical practice alike.
My personal engagement with contemplative and Buddhist traditions spans more than twenty years. It was partly through this practice that I came to discover mindfulness and its secular applications — initially in the UK, through early work in schools facing real difficulties. What I found was that the evidence was strong, the need was urgent, and the structured methodology to bring this into education in a rigorous, secular, and educator-led way did not yet exist. That became my work.
Since 2015, PEACE® has grown into the most widely implemented mindfulness-based programme in French schools, now reaching 35,000+ young people across 950+ schools in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Quebec, and Dom Tom territories. I continue to teach, to train educators, and to develop new frameworks — including WISE UP, our European mental health and digital wellbeing programme, our emerging UK work through Befriend Your Mind Education, and, more recently, a small clinical practice offering craniosacral therapy in London.
