Fidelma became accredited with Breathworks as a mindfulness trainer in 2008 and as an Associate Trainer in 2013. As well as teaching Breathworks Mindfulness for Health and Mindfulness for Stress courses and workshops for the general public and a variety of groups and organisations, including M.S. Ireland, the Irish Heart Foundation, staff at St. Vincent’s University Hospital and students at University College Dublin. She is a regular teacher of the Mindfulness for Health on-line course. She is a mentor for trainees as they go through their mindfulness teacher training with Breathworks. She also contributes to the teacher training programme, and she set up and ran the first Breathworks teacher training programme in Ireland in 2016.

Having worked as a university lecturer prior to becoming a mindfulness teacher, Fidelma is an excellent communicator and group facilitator. She became an accredited coach in 2016 and finds that her mindfulness and coaching practices inform each other in productive and meaningful ways.

Fidelma has a long-standing meditation and mindfulness practice, which continues to ground and sustain her. Her teaching is inspired by the desire to give others the opportunity to enhance their own health and happiness through mindfulness practices.

She has a particular interest in mindful eating and in the Kindly Awareness meditation practice, and has devised courses and workshops on these topics. She especially enjoys teaching mindfulness on a one-to-one basis, both in person and on-line. She lives in Co. Wicklow in Ireland with her husband and young son, enjoys walking and reading and is starting to discover the pleasures of gardening.