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Udemy recently sent me this cool 100K Learner Club t-shirt to celebrate having over 100,000 students on their platform. I actually hit this milestone in September 2024 and we have continued to grow since then. Come join us and learn to support the mental health of those around you.

Just launched my new course, AI for Helping Professions. It teaches the fundamentals of AI for anyone working with clients and their sensitive data. Learn how to use AI in a safe and ethical way, and how to respond when clients are using AI in ways that might be clinically significant.

Check it out on the Holbeck College website or watch the trailer below.

Leeds Autism Practice is now offering neurodivergence consultations. These are one-hour sessions with a psychologist to talk through your experience, ask questions, and think about what would be useful for you. It may lead onto a full assessment or it may be a complete piece of work in itself. Find out more on the Leeds Autism Practice website.

Leeds Autism Practice is excited to announce we’re now offering autism assessments for under 18s. These aren’t bookable online yet, but contact us to for availability. You can also read more about the process on the Leeds Autism Practice website.

We have freed up some more space for the clinic, so from next week, I will be available for in-person sessions at Leeds Anxiety Clinic, as well as online. Chris’s appointments are available as usual, too, so you can have your pick.

Back in 2021, we launched the Running Ambassadors programme to train people to effectively communicate the benefits of running, share their passion with others, and build a safe and supportive environment using the RISE Framework.

Four years later and I am exciting to announce we have now brought the course to Udemy to broaden our audience and allow more people to access the training.

The Prince of Darkness has left us. Like everyone learning guitar, Paranoid is a key part of my repertoire. And Iron Man is one of the songs I regularly serenade Elina with. I like to think Ozzy had all of this in mind when creating the heavy metal genre.

Today, Holbeck College is launching its first YACEP courses.

As I discussed back in February, we are now a Yoga Alliance Certified Education Provider. All registered yoga teachers with Yoga Alliance need to complete CPD as part maintaining our accreditation. Since February, we’ve been working on adapting our courses to to be suitable for CPD.

The first two go live today: Mindfulness Teaching and Meditation Teaching, with hopefully more to follow this year.

I’m delighted to announce the launch of my new course on Cognitive Behavioural Coaching.

Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) is an evidence-based approach to coaching that helps ourselves and our clients create desirable and sustainable changes in their lives. This course will give you everything you need to understand CBC and how coaches use it to help people achieve their personal and professional goals.

Preview the course on Holbeck College or watch the trailer below.

It’s been five years since I completed my yoga teacher training and it has been a brilliant journey. While I have enjoyed teaching a lot of the asana classes we would be familiar with in the UK, a lot of my teaching has focused on pratyhata, dharana and dyhana and allowed me to bring in a lot of my mindfulness work and that has been fantastic.

In many cases, such as my Yoga for Resilience workshops, we’ve combined multiple aspects of yoga to produce a well-rounded course and I feel that this has been when I’ve done my most impactful teaching.

I’m excited to announce I now have sufficient teaching hours to reach the E-RYT designation, which stands for Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher.

Alongside this, Holbeck College is now a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider. Later this year, we will be rolling out some Yoga Alliance certified CPD courses.