Presenters

Gary Born

GARY BORN Since retiring as a Director of a multi-national IT software company, Gary hastaught mindfulness, focusing on people with cancer and on health professionals. He also supervises other mindfulness teachers and mentors graduates of mindfulness courses. Gary is a graduate of the Community Dharma Leadership Programme led by Gaia House, and completed the Committed Dharma Practitioners Programme of Bodhi College in 2010. He has been practising Insight Meditation since 2001, and has been a Board member of the Buddhist Insight Network and Sitting Groups Coordinator for London Insight Meditation. Gary is married, with two grown-up sons.

Gerit Stöcklmair

GERIT STÖCKLMAIR is a microbiologist, psychotherapist and Body Movement Therapist, originally from Austria. Curiosity about the inner and outer world has put her on many journeys, and she has lived in England, Scotland and South Korea, before settling in Denmark, where she now lives. She has been practising meditation since 1994 and has been on extended retreats since 1998, mainly Vipassana, but also within the Zen and Triratna tradition. She graduated from the Bodhi College Teacher Training in 2022 and has an interest in personal development through body-mind-soul integration, which means you might also find her dancing on various occasions.
Gerit is also co-founder of Copenhagen Insight Meditation.

Gerit Stöcklmair (DE)

Gerit Stöcklmair widmet sich seit 1994 der buddhistischen Herzens- und Geistesschulungunter verschiedenen Lehrern. Sie praktiziert und unterrichtet Vipassana- und Metta-Meditation und untersucht mit großem Interesse die Integration des Dhammas im heutigen Kontext der modernen Welt.Sie ist Mitgründerin von Copenhagen Insight Meditation, wo sie auch lehrt und arbeitet nebenbei als Integraler Psychotherapeut, Body Movement Therapeut und Psychotherapeut mit dem Schwerpunkt, Schock und Trauma.

Jake Dartington

JAKE DARTINGTON has practised Buddhist meditation since 1995. After training as a Dharma teacher with Christina Feldman, he started teaching in 2007. He has a background in Philosophy and Buddhist Studies and has trained as a teacher of MBSR/MBCT. Jake lives in Nottingham where he teaches mindfulness and Insight Meditation. 

Jaya Rudgard

JAYA RUDGARD began meditating in the 1980s and practised for eight years as a nun in theThai Forest tradition in England with Ven. Ajahn Sumedho as her teacher. She later trained to teach at Insight Meditation Society and Spirit Rock in the US and continues to teach Insight Meditation at these centres, at home in the UK and internationally. She is a member of the Gaia House Teacher Council. Jaya also teaches qigong. 

Jenny Wilks

JENNY WILKS has practised in various Buddhist traditions since the late 1980s, and has an MA inIndian Religions. She has taught for several years at Gaia House, the Barn Retreat near Totnes in Devon UK, and local meditation classes. She trained in clinical psychology and works as an MBCT (Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy) therapist and trainer at Exeter University.

John Peacock

JOHN PEACOCK is both an academic and a Buddhist practitioner of nearly fifty years. Trained initially in the Tibetan Gelugpa tradition in India, he subsequently spent time in Sri Lanka studying Theravada. After doing a doctorate in philosophy, he taught Buddhist and Western philosophy and then Buddhist Studies at the University of Bristol. He went on to be Associate Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre , co-direct the Master of Studies programme in MBCT(Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy) at Oxford University, and teach Buddhist psychology on the same course.  John is now retired from academia and continues to teach meditation, as he has done for more than thirty-five years.

Klaus-Peter Uhlenberg

Klaus-Peter Uhlenberg began practising Buddhist meditation and studying the Dharma in the1990s. Since 2007, he has been a regular participant in Akincano M. Weber's meditation and study courses in Cologne, and has been teaching himself since 2021. Klaus-Peter completed the Committed Practitioners Programme and the Teacher Training Programme at Bodhi College. After many years as a judge at the administrative court, Klaus-Peter is now retired. He lives with his wife in Cologne.

Klaus-Peter Uhlenberg (DE)

Klaus-Peter Uhlenberg begann in den 1990er Jahren mit buddhistischer Meditation und dem Studium des Dharma. Seit 2007 ist er regelmäßiger Teilnehmer von Akincano M. Webers Meditations- und Studienkursen in Köln, wo er seit 2021 selbst im Rahmen von Atammaya Köln unterrichtet. Klaus-Peter absolvierte das Committed Practitioners Programme und das  Teacher Training Programm beim Bodhi College. Nach langjähriger Berufstätigkeit als Richter am Verwaltungsgericht ist Klaus-Peter nun pensioniert. Er lebt mit seiner Frau in Köln. 

Mark G. Williams

Mark G. Williams is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Psychology and Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. He has held academic posts in Newcastle, Cambridge, and Bangor, where he founded the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the British Academy, and received an honorary doctorate from KU Leuven in 2023.

His research has focused on cognitive processes underlying depression and suicidal behaviour, including autobiographical memory. Together with John Teasdale and Zindel Segal, he co-developed Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) to prevent depressive relapse. More recently, his work has explored vedanā (feeling tone) and its role in emotional reactivity and mindfulness practice