Autobiography

Before I became an Enneagram teacher
I was born in London, but began my working life at 18 in South India where I went to help at a Hindu orphanage as a Voluntary Service Overseas cadet volunteer.
On my return to London I entered journalism and was Woman`s page Editor for a weekly newspaper in London and then general reporter on an evening newspaper in Wolverhampton. I returned overland to India to visit my old project and went on to volunteer in Kolkata (Calcutta).

I was interested in selling handmade goods from India and joined up with a group of other ex-volunteers and ran a shop in Putney for two years selling goods from many countries. I left that to train to be a teacher of English as a Foreign language (EFL) and started my own company: Regenesis, selling recycled paper and cards. I continued working as a free lance journalist and won two awards in the "Catherine Pakenham Memorial Award for Young Women Journalists".

Teaching then took over my life and I enjoyed several years at Hampstead Garden Suburb Institute, which was Britain`s largest language school with almost 2,000 foreign students. I left to go to university and now have an MA in Peace Studies from Bradford University, specializing in the work and thought of Hannah Arendt.

I returned to Hampstead for a few years after my mother died to take care of my father. I went to San Francisco to train as an Enneagram teacher and as a dreamgroup facilitator after my father's death.
I now live in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne where I run workshops locally, nationally and abroad.

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