Robert Gebka

Member Status: Accredited

Member No: RG00P02

Location: Bournemouth

My mindfulness teaching style is very light hearted and practical which also draws on my personal insights and experience. I teach mindfulness in a scientific, fun and gentle way focusing on making mindfulness practical and useful in your daily life.

• Qualifications & Experience

  I am an Accredited Counsellor with the National Counselling Society as well as a Qualified MBSR Mindfulness Teacher with the University of California San Diego Medical School, USA. I spent 5 years in a Zen Buddhist monastery where I lived, worked and trained in mindfulness before joining the NHS. It was during this time that I was fortunate enough to meet HH the 14th Dalai Lama. I have been practicing and teaching mindfulness for over 20 years have taught over 30 MBSR Mindfulness 8-Week courses. I was commissioned to write a book called Managing Depression with Mindfulness for Dummies which serves as a support to people in recovery. I am very interested in neuroscience and have studied the neuroscience and physiology of mindfulness with Neuragy UK. I am CRB checked and fully insured.
  
  I am a member of: National Counselling Society, British Neuroscience Association, Association of Contextual Behavioural Science and the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies.
• What I can help with

  • Addiction (e.g. Alcohol, Computer games, Drugs, Food, Gambling, Sex, Smoking)
  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety
  • Assertiveness / Self-confidence / Self-esteem
  • Bereavement / Loss
  • Cancer
  • Cultural issues
  • Depression
  • Eating disorders
  • Illness and dying
  • Mindfulness
  • Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
  • Relationships
  • Sexuality Identity
  • Spirituality
• Languages Spoken

  • English
  • Mandarin