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Meet Neil & Collaborators

NEIL MORBEY

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Would you like to learn inner peace?
Hi, I'm Neil Morbey. I've been obsessed with rock climbing for 20 years and I worked long hours as a Landscape Architect for 10 years. Throughout all of this I had incredible adventures, but I was avoiding something. Since bullying in secondary school and spinal surgery at seventeen I had been using work and pleasure to distract myself from my underlying emotions, and to avoid my social anxiety and fear of being inadequate and weak. 

This all began to change when I tried to meditate. I picked up a basic book, read the instructions and began. As I focused on my bodily sensations I observed frustration, pain, heartache. There was emotion in my body and mind and it was unbearable. Tears streamed down my face and I had to shake on the floor to calm down. I realised then, this was the start of a journey of healing and self-discovery. 

Over the next few years I trained in many mind-body modalities as a way of trying to understand myself and change the way I think and feel. What I didn't know then is that, rather than change myself, the path of healing lay in accepting myself, exactly as I am, and learning to respond to my judgemental thoughts with kindness and compassion. 

This changed my relationship to my emotions, my pain and my sense of self. As the relationship became more friendly my body relaxed and healed. I opened up to people and became less serious, less anxious and more calm and compassionate. It remains my life's work. 

I was lucky enough to meet Mark Dunn on this journey. He taught me the STOP technique and helped me begin to teach meditation and self-enquiry. We now work separately and together and are lifelong friends. I have learned from him and others that we must reach out to others, build up communities of friends and in order to do that we must first get to know ourselves with kindness and compassion. 

The next stage was relationship - a powerful method of self-discovery. I am grateful to have been in relationship to people who reflected back at me my own blind spots of resentment, judgement, and disempowerment. Through honest and vulnerable relating I have become more intimate with myself and I am now in connection with a loving partner, family and community, which continues to teach me how to trust in love and communicate authentically. 

I am now fortunate enough to help others in their pathways of self-discovery. I love this work and the feedback I receive keeps me fuelled to continue to help people, but also to grow myself into a more loving and compassionate human being. 

A Summary of Relevant Life Experience
I believe that my life experience is as important, if not more important than my qualifications. I'm proud of my varied experiences that has given me hard earned wisdom.
  • Living with a partner and daughter - 2022-date. Adapting to a committed, ethically non-monogamous and then 'monogamish' relationship with my partner and her daughter has been and continues to be one of the deepest, most challenging and revealing experiences of my life. It helps inform my work around attachment styles, reparenting, relating and compassion. 
  • Rock climbing around the world 1994 - date. Pushing myself to the edge has been something I've done in many ways and in rock climbing I've discovered how this can benefit me, help me self-regulate under stress, and see the world in all its beauty, but it also taught me when to back off and how to spot the signals of self destruction. 
  • Learning to partner dance 2015-2020. I think  was more scared about revealing my bad dancing than I was about falling off mountains. I pushed myself through my first year, until I realised how to relax and enjoy. This experience has shown me how to relax and enjoy the flow, roll with 'mistakes', improve mind-body balance and follow the rhythms of music and of life. I have become more enlightened on the dance floor than on the meditation stool. 
  • Learning to meditate 2014-2020. It's hard to put into words the depth of self-connection this has brought me, but there is no substitute to sitting with ourselves in silence and stillness.  I've learned I'm OK, pain is OK, thoughts are OK and that my body-mind is genius... in process... in transition... connected to the world.  
  • Erotic exploration 2002-date. I was lucky in university, meeting a woman who blew my boyish mind. I was lucky again in 2015 when I left my stifling relationship and found a group called 'sacred pleasures' and then delved into 'the k1nk scene' with gusto. These people, practices and explorations taught me the art and power of self-expression, attainment, consent, ethical communication and trauma healing through erotic expression. 
There is so much more to write here, but these are some of the milestones. I'm also grateful to my chaotic childhood, my bullies, my imperfect parents and sibling, my dog being run over and all the myriad of lessons and experiences life continues to bring to me. I believe each of us has this too - so my challenge within my work is to help clients discover their life experiences in a positively-mindful way. 

Scroll down to see my professional qualifications...
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Learning mindfulness from the real master
A summary of Neil's qualifications:​​
I've committed to learning and growing continuously and here is a list of the work I've done to date:
  • Advanced Diploma (Level 5) In Integrative, Person-Centred Counselling  (Network Counselling Training)  including 2 years of study and working with clients for 150 hours of real clinical sessions.(2025)
  • ​Level 4 Certificate in Integrative Counselling (1 year) at University of Southern Wales (2020)
  • Fooling and Voice Dialogue Training  (1 week) with Christie Animus (2020-21)
  • Training courses with 'Art  of Consent',  (4 days) learning about mindfulness of touch and trauma. (2019,2020)
  • 2-Day training in Acceptant and Commitment Therapy (ACT) London, 2020
  • 2 Day Training to Teach 'Paws B' by Mindfulness in Schools Project, a curriculum for 7-12 year old children to learn mindfulness. (MISP) London, 2019
  • Qualified in MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID (MHFA-UK) 2 day training.  I also began volunteering as a mental health advocate with BRISTOL MIND, after an intensive 10 week training.   (Bristol, June 2018)
  • 5 Day training with Youth Mindfulness, offering a 16-class curriculum to mindfulness, for ages 8-16 years old. (London, October 2017)
  • A weekend Facilitation with Journey-Man-UK offering an emotional maturity initiation for boys ages 13-18 years old (Stroud, October 2017)
  • 5 Day Fooling & Drama Therapy Workshop with  Holly Stoppitt (Bristol, June 2017)
  • 2 day Journeyman IMT (Inner Mentor Training) - for mentoring  teenage boys (Bristol, 24th February, 2017)
  • 2-Day Clowning Workshop with Holly Stoppitt (Bristol, May 2016)
  • 8 Week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course with Mindfulness4All (Bristol , May 2016)
  • Trained to Teach Mindfulness in Schools .B Programme  with  MISP, for 11-18 year olds (2 days, Bristol, April 2015)
  • Began teaching and organising Blue Monday; gender neutral and leader fluid partner dancing (Bristol, July 2015-2020)
  • Participant in 5 days Vipassana Meditation training at Dhamma Dipa Vipassana Meditation Centre (Hereford, January 2015) See the blog here. And again in 2025 (blog)
  • Certificate in 6-week Non-Violent Communication with Seeds of Peace (Bristol,2015)
  •  2-day Coaching Training from the Coaching Academy (Bristol, February 2015)
  • Certificate in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction MBSR training, from Palouse Mindfulness  (modelled on the Jon Kabat-Zinn course at the University of Massachusetts )(March 2015)
  • Certificate in Positive Meditation through completion of Level 1 and Level 2 tuition (over 3 years) with  Positive Meditation , with Mark Dunn, (Bristol, 2013-2016)
  • Certificate in 6 weeks Positive psychology practical training with The Happiness Project (Lightbox) (Bristol, July  2014)
  • Founding of Bristol Meditation Group, offering lunchtime guided group meditations. Now based in Breathe Bristol.  (Bristol, June 2014) 
  • Participant in Somatic Movement Foundation training with Embodied Presence, Bristol (Bristol, May-September 2013)
  • Participant in Level 1, 2, 3  and 4 tuition with Sacred Pleasures personal transformation workshops in London  and Wales, including Shadow Healing
    (London, 2013-16)
  • Participant in Mankind Project emotional shadow work with New Warrior Training, (Dublin, July 2014) and Personal Integration Training (Frome, March 2015)  (Ongoing involvement in the MKP through i-group facilitation)
  • Participant in relationship  and Tantric training with Jan Day, Bristol  and Tara Yoga Centre,  London, Bristol and Osho Leela (2013-14)
  • Previous qualifications include a BA (Hons) in Landscape Architecture and Town Planning, including a Post Graduate Masters. I also trained as a rock climbing instructor with over 15 years experience.  
If you want to see more check out my TEDx TALK here
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MARK DUNN

Mark Dunn, PositiveMeditation.com

​"Despite an outwardly successful life - a senior position in the music industry, the perfect family, a beautiful house etc - I had always suffered from a seemingly uncontrollable mind. My inner world was very far from perfect.  Endless negative thinking caused mood swings and exhaustion and finally led to the break-up of my marriage. Shortly afterwards I reached rock bottom. I could no longer live with the constant churning of my worrying mind and realized that I had to find a new way of being.

So I began to search for wisdom and for techniques that could release me from suffering. I left my job in London and, over the next five years, worked with yogis, spiritual masters, mindfulness experts and meditation teachers and studied with the wise and liberated in various places around the world.

The more I learned, the more I experienced joy and inner freedom. Through combining the best aspects of the most powerful methods, I found a solution that worked for me. As a result, I started to develop my own practice, which slowly evolved into Positive Meditation, which works in conjunction with Positively-Mindful.  

Through the application of Positive Meditation I was able to stop myself as I entered into negative thought patterns. This new way of being changed my life dramatically and I began to live in The Now. Over time, I have developed the profound ability to love and accept whatever life throws at me and this has been a great liberation. 

As my practice evolved, I noticed that friends started coming to me with their own problems and that I was able to help them. I decided to offer Positive Meditation to everyone that wanted to try it. Now, over six years later, thousands have tried the technique and many continue to tell their friends about it. Check out my website: positivemeditation.com
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Mark Dunn, Mindfulness Teacher



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Neil's manner is something that I have never seen in any practitioner before. He created an absolutely trusting, safe and non-judgemental environment where he positively challenged me, he provided me with worthy insights and easy tools to use in my day to day life, and we also had a lot of fun. (Lulu, 1-1 Client, 2015)


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