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Meet Neil & The Team

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. 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. 

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. 
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Learning mindfulness from the real master
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If you want to see more check out my TEDx TALK here
A summary of Neil's qualifications:​​
I have commited to one retreat and one training course per  year, in order to keep my practice fresh and my professional growth sustained. 
  • Multiple 2-Day training courses with 'Art  of Consent',  learning about mindfulness of touch and trauma. (2019,2020)
  • 2-Day training in ACCEPTANCE & 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)
  • Participant in 5 days Vipassana Meditation training at Dhamma Dipa Vipassana Meditation Centre (Hereford, January 2015) See the blog here. 
  • Certificate in 6-week Non-Violent Communication with Seeds of Peace (Bristol,2015)
  • Certificate in 2-day Coaching 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.  

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

MAREIKE RINGINA 

Dance Movement Psychotherapist (MA, BSc Hons.); Radical Allowing Practitioner; Focusing and Children Focusing Practitioner.
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My name is Mareike, I was born in Germany and have been living in Bristol since 2016. I am passionate about exploring creative ways that enable me to help my clients to deepen the connection with themselves, others and their environments, such as writing, dancing, art and play.

Sometimes words are not the best way to express our deeper, more subtle inner experiences. As a Dance Movement Psychotherapist, I offer a wide range of creative ways to explore connection, emotions and expression as well as deeper psychological issues. This can be through movement, play, and the use of art and imagery as well as talking. Dance Movement Psychotherapy is based on the idea that body movement reflects inner states of being. Using movement as a form of communication can be a gateway into the deeper places inside us, through which forgotten, repressed, non-verbal, or inexpressible feelings and memories can be expressed and integrated.

In particular Dance Movement Psychotherapy can help us to unlock our own inner resources, find new perspectives, and realise our sense of safety within the body. For me the essence of working with another person is to be present, as a human being. The core of my work lies in providing a safe and trusting environment in which your inner processes can unfold in their own time and their unique way. 

Since 2012 I have practised Focusing and Radical Allowing, which equip me with a deep sensitivity towards the more subtle and complex ways of inner experiencing. I find this invaluable in my work and day to day life. This approach can be especially beneficial in working with trauma, using the Felt Sense, the body’s deeper knowing to unlock and release the trauma.  My greatest passion is in supporting people working through early developmental trauma and attachment issues, which may affect many areas of life for both children and adults.
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Mareike Ringena, Dance Movement Psychotherapist

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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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