share some key understandings around the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy approach for cancer and its emphasis on short mindfulness practices, and offer an opportunity to learn about the newly launched Mindfulness and Cancer Online International Project. To find out more about the project, go to www.mindfulnessandcancer.com

Sue integrates her extensive years of experience as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with her long-standing connection to Buddhist meditation practice, which began almost 40 years ago at the Buddhist Retreat Centre, Ixopo.
Her teachers, mainly from the Theravada tradition, include Ajahn Sucitto, Kittisaro and Thanissara, as well as Stephen and Martine Batchelor.In 2010, Sue created her “Open the Heart and Still the Mind” courses and Stillmind retreats, and her love of the Dharma informs her life personally and professionally.
For more details of Sue’s offerings, including a daily broadcast list of meditations and poetry, see stillmindretreats.com

Organisations can be the place to start meaningful change that can reverberate across communities and our country, and create ripples of positive impact.

Casper Oelofson
Casper specialises in supporting corporate clients internationally with applied mindfulness.
He assists clients to increase their ability for decision making in an environment where they “can’t know what will happen next week / next month”.

Dr Linda Kantor
Linda has been a psychologist in private practice since 1994. She received MBSR training at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center’s Stress Reduction Clinic and has been teaching mindfulness in a variety of contexts over the past 20 years, including the Executive MBA programme at the UCT Graduate School of Business and he University of Stellenbosch’s certification in mindfulness-based interventions.

Liza Stead
As a leadership coach and mindfulness teacher, Liza pioneered a coaching, mentoring and mindfulness centre in RMB and FirstRand which she headed for 14 years. She now continues the mindfulness offering by providing mindfulness masterclasses to a variety of corporate clients. She also curated a city-based mindfulness centre, The Urban Oasis, where she teaches MBSR and holds mindfulness retreats for groups and leaders with their teams.

Dr Ashika Pillay
Ashika is a director of IMISA, a medical doctor, as well as a wellbeing and leadership coach. She has worked in corporate in leadership positions for 10 years and this experience has given her deep insight, empathy and understanding not only for the challenges but also for the opportunities that exist to thrive as humans and organisations.

Anneke is a counselling psychologist in Cape Town, specialising in the fields of trauma, mindfulness and compassionate enquiry.

Janine is a family practitioner, homeopath and mindfulness teacher in East London. She is currently the chairperson of IMISA.

Tina is a social worker, psychotherapist, and mindfulness teacher in Cape Town, specialising in substance abuse, trauma counselling, stress and employee wellness counselling. 

Building on his experience of practicing and teaching mindfulness and his interest in nutrition, both in his own life and his medical practice, he explores how mindful eating practices offer a powerful way to refresh and deepen our existing mindfulness practice by recognising when we are using food to numb rather than turn toward feelings.