Sally Francis
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Head of the Education and Development Group Educational background
Sally has worked for many years in education in the primary, secondary and tertiary sectors as well as in the corporate sector managing HR and Learning and Development and in Quality Management in Technical and Further Education. She has developed many training and development programs including courses in communication skills, team development, coaching, performance management and change. She is the author of a textbook entitled "Workplace Communication: A Teacher's Guide"; Pitman 1993. Her interest in personal growth led her to the study of Buddhist psychology and she has studied Buddhism in a number of centres; predominantly Tibetan Buddhism. She is a life member of the Jamchen Buddhist Centre in Melbourne and has attended meditation retreats in both Australia and Nepal over the last seven years. Sally works with mindfulness and Mindfulness-based Cognitive Behaviour Therapies utilizing the work of Bruno Cayoun, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Segal, Teasdale, and Williams. Sally has run groups for both Stress Reduction and Depression, including 8-week programs for clients in remission from major depression. Sally has been trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (MiCBT). Sally has trained in MiCBT for over 5 years and coordinated the 2008 8-week applied course for therapists in Melbourne. Her past research looked at measures of mindfulness and the relationship between mindfulness and well-being. Sally works in private practice in the CBD and Carlton, Melbourne, where she is also the Coordinator of the Melbourne's MiCBT Interest Group. She is Head of the Learning and Development Group at the MiCBT Institute, in charge of developing the course curriculum for Government-approved professional accreditation in MiCBT. |
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