Board Director

Pete Milligan

Pete is a psychiatrist who is based in northern KwaZulu-Natal where he is involved in the development of mental health services in underserved rural areas. He has an interest in public mental health and mindfulness-based interventions for mental illness and health care workers. He is affiliated to the University of KwaZulu-Natal Department of Psychiatry.

Pete spent 15 years working in rural primary health care and health service management in the Eastern Cape. He also worked at Lentegeur and Valkenberg hospitals and the University of Cape Town and has extensive experience with mindfulness-based therapies in the South African context.
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He integrates his love for wilderness and mindfulness by leading mindfulness-based wilderness trails and retreats in various national parks.