Clare Jenkins

Clare started practising Mindfulness 15 years ago, after attending John Darwin's introductory talk on the topic at Sheffield Hallam University, where she worked as a Journalism lecturer. She subsequently attended his Mindfulness course half-a-dozen times. She's always been interested in spiritual matters, having been brought up as a Roman Catholic and then learning about both Hinduism and Buddhism during regular visits to India over a period of 30-plus years. In the late 1990s, she interviewed HH the Dalai Lama for a series of features for Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4. Around the same time, she interviewed former classmates from her Birmingham Catholic grammar school about their religious/spiritual beliefs, for her MA in Women's Studies. She is currently re-interviewing them, to see how those beliefs may have changed.