I am a teacher, trainer and supervisor of courses based on Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT), and I have been engaged in personal mindfulness practice since 2002. My lifelong interest lies in the study of original Buddhist texts and Buddhist psychology, which, in secular programmes, intersects with Western psychology.
I completed training at the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, graduating with Distinction from the master’s programme in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT). I am also a graduate of the Psychological Therapies Practice (Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Approaches) programme at the University of Exeter, and I hold a Certificate of Competence in accordance with the internationally recognised MBI-TAC criteria.
I taught on the MSt in MBCT programme at the University of Oxford and lead courses for students at the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University. I am a member of the Mindfulness Research and Practice Network at Masaryk University, an academic centre at the forefront of mindfulness research, teaching, and application in the Czech Republic. I am the co-author of MUNI Healthy Minds, an eHealth mindfulness programme at Masaryk University, and I developed learning materials to organise teaching projects and deliver courses for the MSt in MBCT at the University of Oxford.
I teach in both Czech and English, in academic settings as well as in the private sector. I am currently pursuing a doctoral degree (DPhil in Psychiatry) at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Willem Kuyken.
