Our Mentors

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Cathy Brown

MEDITATION PROGRAM MENTOR

Cathy Brown transformed a personal tragedy into something extraordinary. Diagnosed with melanoma in 1989 and secondaries a year later, Cathy was advised “to go home and enjoy her family while she could”, as she only had between 2 months and 2 years to live. Cathy was devastated; her children were 6 and 8 at the time.

However, her prognosis initiated an amazing personal journey, which involved exploration and implementation of self-help techniques including meditation. Once recovered, Cathy trained extensively including as a Clinical Hypnotherapist so she could help others. In 2016, Cathy published her book - My Answer to Cancer. She has worked for many years with Cancer Support WA – now Solaris Cancer Care, as well as presenting corporate wellness programs for Perth businesses and enjoying Public Speaking.


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Murray Paterson

ASSOCIATE- CORPORATE CLIENT

Meditation practitioner with 40 years of practice, and experienced meditation teacher with a professional background in adult education. A senior leader of design and delivery teams, facilitator of leadership and change programs, and executive coach working in professional services, corporate, government and tertiary education settings.


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Melissa Borich

MEDITATION PROGRAM MENTOR

Melissa is dedicated to the practice of meditation and yoga including education and training. For over 20 years she has held regular meditation and yoga classes, courses and residential retreats in her own retreat space. Melissa is highly experienced in working with individual client’s and helping them create a personalised daily practice. Melissa’s husband was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer in 2005. Having found the work of Ian Gawler extremely beneficial for her husband’s healing journey, Melissa trained with Ian and has been a long-term student of Ian’s ever since. Melissa is accredited as a Senior Yoga Teacher, as a yoga therapist and Relax and Renew Restorative Yoga Teacher; as well as being an experienced Meditation Teacher registered with Meditation Aust.


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Michael Paterson

CORPORATE MEDITATION PROGRAM MENTOR

Michael's meditation practice commenced in 1983 after learning about the benefits and practise of meditation through Ian Gawler when his father had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He found the physical, mental and emotional benefits so great, that he has continued to learn, research and meditate ever since. He worked in a full-time corporate role from 1988 until 2009, when he moved into Business Consulting and Meditation Teaching. The balance has enabled him to provide both businesses and individuals with the support they need to manage through challenging times and to improve across a broad range of areas as needed. He understands the needs of both the organisation and the individual and brings a balanced approach to learning and benefiting the most from your meditation experience.


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Pamela Wilson

CORPORATE MEDITATION PROGRAM MENTOR

Pam has worked in the health industry as a registered nurse for over 30 years. Working in the public, private and industrial health care systems. She has been a keen yoga practitioner and spiritual seeker for even longer. Since 2014 she has been a hatha yoga teacher and has taught in studios, gyms and for the Life Now cancer program in WA. She holds an advanced diploma in Holistic Classical Yoga Practices (52792WA) and a teaching diploma from the International Yoga Teachers Association and represented them in WA for 6 years. She is a member of Yoga Australia and holds a level 2 membership.
Her interest in meditation has been as long as her interest in Yoga. She has practiced meditation informally using various systems throughout her years of yoga practice. In 2022 she formalised her practice and became a certified meditation teacher and registered as a teacher with Meditation Australia.


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Carmel Markham

CORPORATE MEDITATION PROGRAM MENTOR

Carmel is a meditator, mentor and seasoned celebrant for all life events. She discovered meditation in her early twenties when aspiring to be a 'hippie'! Meditation for her is always something to which she returns when she needs to recharge, relax or sort out a few problems. All her career choices have been in a service industry, from aged care, early childhood teaching to managing funeral teams, and training and mentoring celebrants.
When she is not working, she can be found volunteering at her city Museum, gardening, walking her 'Staffy', swimming at the beach, baking, reading and spending time with her family, especially her 7 year old granddaughter. Most years she enjoys a trip to Bali to take in the culture, relax and practice her Bahasa language skills. She loves to challenge herself and is currently learning AUSLAN.


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