This session will:
explore how food impacts our mood
explain what we can do to improve our happiness and energy for life
help those who experience unexplained low moods, inflammatory symptoms such as eczema, IBS and different types of arthritis
Matt Lovell
Matt has been one of the leading sports nutritionists in the UK for many years. He worked with the England's Rugby World Cup winning team of 2003 and remained with England Rugby until 2017 surviving many changes in management. He has worked for many of the Premiership Rugby clubs and Premiership Football clubs including Saracens, Wasps, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Bournemouth and both the men and women England Football teams. Matt works with the general public to help find nutrition-based solutions to illness and fatigue.
This session will explain what mindfulness really is without tie-dye, incense or whale music! Major Patrick Burgess will teach you some simple and practical techniques to:
Help to free you from worry and stress.
Teach you to overcome unnecessary distraction.
Provide better mental focus when you need it
Help you experience greater mental clarity
Major Pat Burgess joined the Army in September 1992 and has had a long and distinguished career including operations to Northern Ireland, the invasion of Iraq (and subsequent tours) and a further three tours of Afghanistan. His interest in Mental Health, Resilience and more specifically Mindfulness started in 2009, whilst on operations in Afghanistan. He has been practising Mindfulness since then and has gained further qualifications and experience in human sciences.
Major Pat Burgess
He is a member of the Defence Mindfulness Steering Group and has run weekly Zoom Mindfulness sessions throughout the COVID-19 period. He is currently involved in the implementation of Physical Awareness Training (PAT), an innovative approach to bringing Mindfulness based coping strategies into the existing culture of physical training. He runs Mindfulness classes for the permanent staff, both military and civilian, at the Armour Centre in Bovington and has recently created a defence-wide online mindfulness course.
He has most recently been awarded an MBE in the New Year's Honours List in recognition of his tireless work in bringing mindfulness to Defence.
He has a BSC(Hons) in Psychology, a Diploma in Mindfulness, and has been trained in Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy at Oxford.
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