Draper-Clarke, Lucy,

Dr Lucy Draper-Clarke is an educator, mindfulness mentor, and researcher-practitioner at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa. After graduating from Oxford University, she obtained a PGCE and moved to Botswana to work in education.

In 2005, Lucy helped run North Andaman Tsunami Relief in Thailand. On returning to Botswana, she became a Deputy Principal, while also training as a yoga teacher and mindfulness facilitator. She moved to South Africa in 2010 to study for a doctorate in Mindfulness and Teacher Education. Her current focus on Compassionate Activism offers changemakers the skills they need to prevent burnout, increase resilience, and cultivate wise action.

As a research associate at Drama for Life, a department dedicated to social transformation and healing, Lucy studies both African and Eastern Wisdom Traditions. She has taken refuge in the Karma Kagyu School of Buddhism and attends regular retreats to deepen her own meditation practice. Nothing gives her more joy than sharing life-enhancing, movement and sitting practices so that everyone can discover their own creative and purposeful lives.

Visit her at www.lucydraperclarke.com