
Tessa Watt is an experienced Mindfulness practitioner and helps Pipeline participants deal with the pressures of everyday life at work. She is the author of Mindfulness: A Practical Guide (Icon, 2012) and Mindful London (Virgin, 2014). She is co-chair of the ‘Mindfulness in the Workplace’ strand of the Mindful Nation UK inquiry (2015).
Tessa is co-presenter of Be Mindful Online, the Mental Health Foundation’s online mindfulness course. She follows the UK Good Practice Guidelines for mindfulness teachers, and has completed the Teacher Development Levels 1 & 2 run by the Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor University. Tessa was formerly a Research Fellow in History at Cambridge University, where she completed her PhD, and a Senior Producer at the BBC.