About Us
Dr Paramabandhu Groves
Consultant psychiatrist working in the National Health Service in London, UK
He is an experienced meditation and Dharma teacher and the clinical director of Breathing Space, the health and well-being wing of the London Buddhist Centre.
He is the author of Practical Buddhism: Mindfulness and Skilful Living in the Modern Era, and, with Valerie Mason-John, Eight Step Recovery: Using the Buddha’s Teachings to Overcome Addiction.
Dr Jed Shamel
Clinical psychologist working in the National Health Service in London, UK
He has a special interest in compassion-focused approaches to mental well-being as well as working with groups.
Mindful Emotion: a short course in Kindness is his first book and developed in part out of his doctoral research evaluating Kindness Behaviour Training (KBT).