Events, Training & Collaborations

small online programme for people living with persistent pain who want to work and live more sustainably.

The programme brings together movement and awareness work, pain science and practical self-management. We explore how pain interacts with effort, attention, stress, bracing, activity and recovery, and develop practical experiments that can be carried into everyday life.

With Martin Underwood

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Contributing as a trainer with Live Well with Pain to the Ten Footsteps programme for health and social care professionals.

Ten Footsteps provides a structured framework for helping people with persistent pain develop practical self-management skills.

With Live Well with Pain

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An in-person session exploring persistent pain and practical approaches to movement and self-management.

The session looks beyond simple posture correction or stretching towards the interaction between pain, habitual tension, movement, attention and effort.

With Martin Underwood

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An eight-week programme developed and delivered with Steven Shaw, founder of the Shaw Method.

The programme is for people living with persistent back, neck and shoulder pain who want to explore a different approach when conventional fixes have not provided lasting relief.

Across eight weeks, we bring together Alexander Technique and Shaw Method principles with pain science and practical self-management, exploring the relationship between habitual tension, bracing, attention, movement and effort.

The emphasis is on developing practical skills that can be used in everyday life to move and function with less unnecessary strain.

With Steven Shaw and Martin Underwood / Art of Swimming

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Contributing as a trainer with Live Well with Pain to a professional workshop exploring nutrition in the context of persistent pain and pain self-management.

With Live Well with Pain

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A practical workshop developed and delivered with Steven Shaw, founder of the Shaw Method and author of The Art of Swimming.

We explore why persistent pain isn't always resolved by stretching, strengthening or trying to maintain the “right” posture, and how habitual bracing and unnecessary muscular effort may become part of the problem.

Participants experiment with Alexander Technique and Shaw Method principles to explore sitting, standing and moving with less unnecessary effort.

With Steven Shaw and Martin Underwood / Art of Swimming

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Collaborating with researchers at Coventry University and movement practitioners on the development of practical movement resources for people living with persistent pain.

The project explores how embodied movement approaches might support pain self-management in real-world settings and has included the development and testing of a series of practical movement videos.

With Coventry University

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Participating in Steven Shaw's Shaw Method Teacher Training and contributing a persistent-pain perspective to the development of the work.

The Shaw Method applies Alexander Technique principles to swimming and movement. This collaboration is also informing the development of our work for people with persistent back, neck and shoulder pain.

With Steven Shaw / Art of Swimming

Chronic Pain Practitioners' Conversation

Participated in a multidisciplinary conversation bringing together people working across rheumatology, physiotherapy, mental health, movement education and community services.

The meeting explored opportunities for better local collaboration and practical support for people living with persistent pain.

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Chronic Pain in Primary Care

Participated in a British Pain Society Primary Care Special Interest Group discussion on chronic pain in primary care.

The session brought together professionals working around persistent pain to explore practical models for improving support, including self-management and multidisciplinary approaches.

With the British Pain Society

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Lambeth Chronic Pain Study Day for Primary Care

Co-delivered training with Dr Frances Cole and Live Well with Pain as part of Lambeth's Chronic Pain Study Day for primary care professionals.

Our session focused on persistent pain and person-centred self-management, including activity, setbacks, goals and practical approaches clinicians can use to support people living with persistent symptoms.

With Dr Frances Cole / Live Well with Pain / Lambeth Training

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Live Well with Pain Training

Contributed to a Live Well with Pain training session exploring persistent pain, self-management and the practical application of self-management approaches.

With Live Well with Pain

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Delivered a session for GPs in Stroud exploring persistent pain, posture, movement and self-management.

The session considered approaches that go beyond purely structural explanations of persistent musculoskeletal pain while retaining the importance of movement, function and individual physical patterns.

Following the session, GP Dr Andy Simpson described it as an “excellent talk”.

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Delivered an online workshop for members of the Vocational Rehabilitation Association introducing the Alexander Technique and its potential application within vocational rehabilitation.

The session explored how greater awareness of habitual tension, effort and movement patterns can support people experiencing persistent musculoskeletal pain and difficulties returning to or sustaining work.

For the Vocational Rehabilitation Association

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