Presenters
Elaine Casson
[ The Body Factory ]
Elaine qualified as a dance teacher in 1984 and as an Aerobic Instructor in 1985.
She opened the first Body Factory Fitness Club in 1991 and two more successful Health Clubs followed.
She is a personal fitness trainer and teaches classes in Dance, Salsa, Aerobics, Step, Body-Pump, Spinning, Box-a-cise, Pilates and Fitness Yoga, Nutrition and Weight Management. She is also a qualified in NLP and Hypnotherapy. Elaine has a daughter Emma, 18 and a son Danny 14.
Elaine strongly believes in a happy, healthy, positive mind and body and loves educating and helping others to achieve this.
Sue Fletcher
[ www.astrologysue.com/ ]
Seventeen years ago Sue was with her son Christian in the Far East. He said mum “you can have anything you want, all you have to do is to have the belief and intent and visualize for what you want”. That was the start of Sue’s fantastic journey. Sue went on to use creative visualisation techniques in her own life and found they worked.
Sue is an Astrologer and is also qualified in counselling, teaching, lifecoaching and has an NVQ4 in training and development. In 1998 she became a Reiki Master.
Sue now teaches five subjects and practices as an astrologer and lifecoach here in the UK and in France and Spain. She teaches the law of attraction and is passionate about life direction and helping others to realize their inner potential.
All the techniques Sue uses are tried and tested.
Richard Bisiker
[ www.personalsummits.com ]
Richard is a Business & Personal Coach, Trainer, and Author. He is the founder of Personal Summits Ltd, in 1999, and works around the UK with business owners. He has 15 years experience in training and coaching, 5 within the public sector and 10 with private businesses. Prior to this Richard spent 3 years in Malaysia recruiting and training associates to start small businesses within a group business network.
Richard works on developing the individual's personal performance in tandem with their strategic and operational management and business skills, also client acquisition, staff and people skills, and finance management.
His books “More of What You Want“ and “Unlock your Personal Potential“ are confirmation of the research he has conducted into personal development from his MSc and post-grad Diploma in Human Resource Development with Wolverhampton University.
Richard is also a qualified Business Master Practitioner of (NLP) Neuro Linguistic Programming.
He has trained in small groups over 7000 participants from a wide variety of cultures. Richard’s approach is highly practical and experiential. It is motivation and education. He has 1000's hours of coaching experience helping his clients achieve success.
Some clients he has worked with:
The Law Society, MoD, Goodrich-Lucas Aerospace, BT, NHS, Siemans, Alliance & Leicester, Lloyds TSB to name a few plus many smaller firms.
William Bloom
[ www.williambloom.com ]
William is a visiter at the April Convention, and will be our main speaker at our September Retreat. William Bloom is one of the UK’s most experienced teachers, healers and authors in the field of holistic development. His work has helped thousands of people.
His mainstream career includes a doctorate in psychology from the LSE where he lectured in Psychological Problems in International Politics, ten years working with adults and adolescents with special needs, and delivering hundreds of trainings, many in the NHS.
His holistic background includes a two-year spiritual retreat living amongst the Saharan Berbers in the High Atlas Mountains, 30 years on the faculty of the Findhorn Foundation, co-founder and director for 10 years of the St. James’s Church Alternatives Programme in London.
He is a meditation master and his books include the seminal The Endorphin Effect, Feeling Safe and Psychic Protection – and most recently Soulution: The Holistic Manifesto.
He is director of The Holism Network and well known for his clear, practical and friendly style of teaching.
Juanita Puddifoot
[ www.energygateways.com ]Juanita Puddifoot is an Subtle Energy Consultant, trainer, therapeutic counsellor and sensitive. She has worked for over 20 years providing insights into the subtle energy realms for organisations and individuals. Her aim is to provide a professional, supportive and caring approach to facilitate in-depth exploration of the physical, mental, emotional & spiritual connections. To facilitate this she has spent numerous years searching and developing effective methods and techniques that would help bring about enhancement , abundance and change in peoples lives. Studying a wide range of approaches Psychotherapy, NLP, Psycho-drama, spiritism, shamanism and western spiritual practices, Regression and Past life therapy. Juanita has been working for many years with Dr Roger Woolger PH.D one of the leading pioneers in Regression Therapy and facilitates his UK training. She also provides workshops and courses tailor made for companies and groups including running her own schedule of events around the UK and abroad.
Since her childhood when she first was able to see and sense the spiritual guides and teachers that we all have access to. Juanita has combined her academic skills, experience and sensing abilities in a unique and empowering approach to help people heal and change their lives. She feels passionately that within each of us can be heard the voice of our Soul, constantly calling us and seeking to guide our steps along lifes pathway towards the goal of ultimate fulfillment. Juanita supports people to find ways to hear and understand that guidance amidst the deafening roar of our everyday world.
Kym Chandler
[ www.paradisemusic.co.uk ]
Likened to the purity of Eva Cassidy and the haunting elegance of Kate Bush, Kym's voice has a rare quality that comes along only once in a while. Best known to many as the voice of Maya, A Woman's Journey sees the exciting release of Kym's first solo album. Sometimes, a musical accident happens which brings together strands from the past to make something genuinely new and original, but somehow familiar. Kym Chandler's voice needs no processing, no augmenting, and simply demands to be enjoyed. Her songs come from, and speak to, the heart and explore self-belief, unity and redemption. The twin acoustic guitar tapestry provided by Bernie Devine and John Tobin creates a sensitive but musically interesting support to Kym's innocent purity, blending folk, jazz and blues with world music flavours including Spanish and Indian tonalities.
John Fletcher
John Fletcher is a retired Chartered Civil Engineer. He worked for the railway, built and designed bridges and roads and went on to construct roads. He designed and built his own timber framed 6 bedroomed bouse in the UK. He has 5 children and 7 grandchildren. 17 years ago he bought a 600 year old house in France in Picardy. He has been renovating different barns on the 2 ½ acre property ever since. He runs workshops and summer parties there and has a small campsite.
A few years after his wife died he met Sue, and due to their combined interests realised they were meant to be together. He had always been interested in energy and it seemed like a natural progression to study Feng Shui. Following completion of the course he decided to go to college to teach the subject. He is a keen conservationist interested in environmental issues and saving energy. He is also interested in the current changes in the weather and learning how to be self sufficient.
Louise Woodcock
[ www.yumyumyoga.co.uk ]
Louise has been in the Health and Fitness industry for the past 20 years running her own successful business.
At the age of 21 after completing a drama and dance course gaining her "A" levels she took a year off to think what career path she should choose. She went to America ( with au pair America ) to be an au pair. There she discovered Aerobics which she really loved. Using the law of attraction and asking the universe for guidance she came back to the UK and became an Aerobic instructor.
Louise has a B A Honours degree in Leisure and Sports and is qualified to teach Yoga and Pilates her classes are multi level and tailored for all abilities. She uses music which has depth and meaning to it which brings a beautiful flow and serenity to the class.
She is creator of Yum Yum Yoga A Yoga inspired music and movement class for parent and child.
Kimberley Gridley
[ www.glyco.com/kimberleyGridley ]
Kimberley Gridley is a Qualified Homeopath and a Fellow of the British Institute of Homeopathy and a Glyconutritional Wellness Consultant.
She qualified from the Practical College of Homeopathy in London, and has been practicing since 1998 in the south London and Kent area, where she had clinic which specialized in Female problems and childrens Health as well as general practice.
In 2003 she toured in the UK with Dr Steven Boyd, and lectured on the benefits of Low Glycaemic eating and has written a booklet on how to use a unique Low Glycaemic system for fat loss and long term health..
She also lectures on the benefits of Glyconutrition and an Optimal health System of nutrition which she uses on all her clients for long term health benefits. Her passion is to help to educate her clients on diet and lifestyle which will help to achieve long term health and wellness.