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​Eluned Gold is an experienced mindfulness teacher and trainer. She has been teaching and training others to teach mindfulness for more than 20 years. In 2017 she retired from the position of Director of CPD Training at the leading Mindfulness Training Institute, Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, at Bangor University, where she has worked for 17 years. Eluned continues to work with Bangor university as freelance trainer.

Eluned is a qualified psychotherapist and prior to this post she worked with children and families for over a decade. She has developed a mindfulness programme for parents ‘Nurturing Parents: Mindfulness-based Parent Well-being’. Eluned continues to work with various organisations to supervise and support staff that work with children and families.

Eluned now works as Director of Training for the Mindful Birthing and Parenting Foundation, (MBPF) where she trains teachers and develops curricula for this charitable organisation based in San Francisco. MBPF is dedicated to bringing mindfulness-based childbirth and parenting (MBCP) to pregnant couples around the world. She has four adult children and four grandchildren

Workshop Topic:
Mindfulness in Parenting

This workshop will explore a number of ways to bring mindfulness to families at the start of their parenting journey as well as later on. We will examine the rationale for bringing mindfulness to parents and discover some early research evidence of its effectiveness.

As well as exploring the topic in general, the workshop will offer specific details of two  mindfulness courses designed to support parents. Mindfulness-based Childbirth and Parenting introduces mindfulness as a pre-natal education and preparation for birth and ongoing parenting. Nurturing  Parents, on the other hand, is a course for parents at any stage of their parenting journey and focuses on “self nurture” as a life skill to foster resilience as well as acceptance for supporting attuned parenting.