Other Teachers

Maddy Buttner is a freelance trainer and has been running her own business since 1997.  In that time she has worked in a wide variety of industry sectors, from banking and IT to academia.  She also works as a volunteer with a number of charities.  She is a registered MBTI® practitioner and works as an associate with the UK publisher of MBTI®, OPP Ltd.  Maddy's firm belief is that our ability to do anything well is rooted in the way we function and treat each other as human beings. This premise guides any workshop she runs, her intent is to provide an environment in which people can and want to learn new skills and discover their own ability and potential.

Mary Colwell is a freelance natural history producer and consultant on religion and the environment. 

Ebba From is a Danish Diploma Psychotherapist (1983) and trainer with in excess of twenty years’ experience in workshops and adult education. She has been in private practice in Denmark for over fifteen years, where she also works as an experienced Couples Counsellor using ”The Art of Dialogue” and the Enneagram as foundations for her work.

Through studying Jungian Studies at University of Aarhus/Denmark, Gestalttherapy training with Natasha Mann, USA and studies at Emmerson College, UK, Ebba has gathered knowledge of human life and the soul seen through different aspects of psychology. She also trained with Helen Palmer, David Daniels and Peter O´Hanrahan and qualified as a Professional Teacher of the Enneagram in 1999.

She has been connected to Emmaus House for several years as part of the Enneagram team and, through support and co-teaching with Ann O´Sullivan, developed her own workshops and retreats based on the Enneagram, combining her psychological knowledge, experience, compassion and deep respect for the human soul and spirit.

Sister Sheila Gosney is a creative retreat and workshop director and a professional artist.  She has a Doctorate in Education and a Masters in Creative Education.  She has studied spirituality at Regina Mundi in Rome, and on-going formation at the Angelicum, Rome, specialising in the 16^th Century Mystics St Teresa Avila and St John of the Cross.  She is trained in spiritual direction at the London Centre for Spirituality.  She has many years’ experience in creative retreat ministry and spiritual companioning as well as leading workshops and sessions in the creative arts.

Sister Ishpriya, RSCJ is a spiritual teacher and guide.  Although English by birth, she has lived in India among Hindu holy men and women for many years.  Along with Vandana, she founded three Christians ashrams for dialogue with Hindus and for meditation and spiritual practice, drawing on the wisdom of east and west.  In the Christian Ashram movement she was closely associated with other founders such as Bede Griffiths.  As well as an in depth experiential knowledge of eastern spiritual traditions, Ishpriya has a doctorate in western psychology.  She has taught and led retreats worldwide.  As a member of the Society of the Sacred Heart, a Catholic religious order, she has a gift for integrating our Christian heritage with the wisdom of the east.

Kevin Murphy is an experienced teacher of creative writing and song-writing, has written and produced two musical plays and published psalms, songs and poems. He has gained an MA in the Practice and Teaching of Creative Writing at Cardiff University.

Gretel White is a biologist with a long standing faith and a life long passion for the natural world. The combination of wonder at the created order, together with a deep appreciation of the Creator, makes seeing God in the world around and caring for that world a natural part of her life journey. She sees caring for the planet as an integral part of life, permeating all areas of interest and activity and influencing our life choices. Originally trained in horticulture/crop science, she has long held the belief that biodiversity can be maintained and global food security achieved within a sustainable system. She is keen on gardening, and is attempting to grow as much of her own produce as possible in her small suburban garden, using an organic approach. Her current employment is in relation to agricultural development, mostly in the developing countries of the world.