Sarah's professional training was as an Occupational Therapist, working in mental health and Social Services settings for over twenty years. She also trained as a Counsellor, receiving her MEd in 1999.

Sarah was introduced to mindfulness, in 1996, by Mark Williams. She subsequently trained to teach others with Mark Williams and teachers at the Center for Mindfulness, Massachusetts, USA, JonKabat-Zinn's centre.

She became involved in school-based mindfulness in 2010 working with teachers and children from Ysgol Peny Bryn, Colwyn Bay. Sarah co-authored Paws b (Key Stage 2) and .b Foundations curricula (Mindfulness in Schools Project). She subsequently developed ‘The Present for Schools' with Dusana Dorjee and Tabitha Sawyer, a programme to support Foundation Phase/Key Stage 1, KS2 and KS3 teachers to share mindfulness practice with children aged 3-13.

Sarah has developed an adult version of The Present for those in workplace settings who want to explore mindfulness but find it difficult to make the time to practice formally. ‘Living in the Present’ has been offered since 2018.

She has published ‘The Mindfulness Breakthrough’, Watkins, 2012 (reprinted as ‘The Mindfulness Key’, 2016) and is co-author of ‘Mindfulness and The Transformation of Despair’, ‘MBCT with People at Risk of Suicide’ in paperback (2017), Williams, Fennell, Barnhofer, Crane and Silverton, Guilford, 2015.

https://www.thepresentcourses.org