Testimonials & Press
re Stuart’s Coaching, Programmes, Workshops & Treatments
Press
Stuart has written articles for, or been featured/referenced by:
- Health 24 magazine
- Business traveller
- Metro newspaper
- Body Matters
- Hello magazine
- Institute of Leadership & Management
- Men's Health
- Executive Coaching
- Sheerlux magazine
- Spa secrets
- SHA Wellbeing Centre blog
- Wellbeing Escapes
- Healing Holidays
- In Style
Testimonials
The following are just a selection re coaching, treatment sessions, programmes, workshops etc. from private & business clients, GPs/Doctors, Researchers, Schools etc:
- Thank you for a truly great workshop! So inspiring and insightful. I will gladly testify that your workshops are brilliant. Every participant afterward wanted to sign up to regular classes with Stuart. All in all, your workshop was an excellent experience, It was truly incredible. MD. Scandi-Pro
- I’m convinced I will look back on this coaching as one of the very best uses of my time Private client
- I did an event with Stuart and it was phenomenal. Commercial Director, Soho House
- The sessions have been excellent and I feel are exactly what I needed. They have been structured and presented in a way that really works for me. CEO, International Bank
MD. Scandi-Pro
Stuart has been a frequent Visiting Master at our wellbeing center, however I never had the chance to experience his work until his 3rd visit. I went to the session without expectations. After the session, I was sharing my experience with guests and I realized that the pain in my left arm wasn’t there anymore !!!! I was shocked because it was constantly there for 3 years and it made me feel very weak. Now that it’s gone and after many months, it has not come back; THE SESSION WITH STUART CREATED A KIND OF MIRACLE FOR ME AND I AM VERY, VERY HAPPY ABOUT IT.
Wellbeing Manager, LifeCo, Bodrum, Turkey
I recently attended a workshop with Stuart. I think anyone owes it to themselves to spend time with Stuart. You not only owe it to yourself, but to your family, partner, colleagues and even your business. Stuart has a wonderful ability to empower you without feeling you are being taught to or lectured. His evidence-based approach is neither spiritual or religious, just very practical for today’s lifestyle. This approach, as well as Stuart’s background as an international lawyer, makes the workshop extremely relevant for all participants. I have learned that the time you invest with Stuart is returned to you in multiples.
Director. Wellbeing Escapes
- Following a multi-site pilot programme across the UK, where Stuart delivered Mindfulness & Meditation programmes over a period of months to staff (factory, office, research and management groups), we are surprised at the significant and beneficial outcomes and convinced of the benefits. Head of Wellness, Unilever PLC UK
- Stuart has had a great impact upon my business, and his teaching has continued to benefit us long after the programme sessions ended. Stuart’s friendly and accessible style caught everyone’s interest. The tools and techniques Stuart taught us are in use every day.
Managing Director, JSMT
The private, one to one, coaching with you was excellent. The approach, and your personal teaching, made the entire experience very enjoyable and beneficial. Following on from this, I asked you to teach one of your corporate programmes to my staff. I was similarly impressed with the way this was taught and equally, with the very positive feedback from the staff who took part; all of whom enjoyed the course and the approach and all of whom clearly found benefit from this teaching. I have no doubt that this teaching will help keep our staff healthier, better able to deal with the stresses of the job and more focused – and I am sure this will, in turn, benefit the business.
Owner and MD Dial a Flight & Lotus Grou
- As an extremely busy, high profile, much travelled, business owner/manager, your services have made an immense difference to my business and personal life. Your teaching, the tailored and structured approach and the exceptional level of care, support and professionalism have been greatly appreciated by me and are of great value to a person in my position. The benefits have been extensive (professionally and personally). Engaging you was an exceptionally good decision and I continue to reap the rewards. Thank you. Director Premjee Group (multi-billion dollar, international conglomerate)
- The decision to engage you, of all of the hundreds of decisions taken recently, has been the best of all of them.
Director, International Real Estate Company
- Many thanks for bringing the missing dimension to our work with our Year 11 students. Today’s meditation and mindfulness workshops have really helped our students – and many teachers. They were really practical and all the exercises were linked to real-life situations that our students are facing – especially the looming examinations. We’re now going to work out when we can get you back to work with the staff!
Follow up quote:
- I just caught up with one of the Y10 boys re the meditation session you led - he said "it was actually really good. It's helping already and I know how to keep using it. Everyone should do it. Seriously, we all need it." As background to this student:.... he’s a student at risk of permanent exclusion from the school. He has had loads of counseling and anger management support for his temper and behaviour choices. These have been going on since Y7. This is the first aspect of support I've ever heard him be positive about. I'm really excited. Thank you. Year 10 School Teacher
- was very impressed with the quality of your programme and your modern approach to meditation, concentrating on the physical … aspects and not just the psychological teaching. She was also impressed with the flexibility you have built into the material…. Of course we would not have expected any less, as your course is known to be the highest, if not one of the highest being taught at this present time. Quote from the Federation of Holistic Therapists (UK’s largest professional association for practitioners) re feedback of the President re the Teacher Training Programme developed by Stuart
Jennifer
- I wanted to say thank you so much for the course my husband and I attended. We were both extremely impressed and found your delivery brilliant Education Specialist
- The workshop this evening was a real inspiration - I really enjoyed it and found it really valuable.
Owner PR company
- Thank you for such an amazing workshop Student counselor,
International Baccalaureate School, Jordan
- I am feeling inspired and motivated and looking forward to a less stressed and happier me. Workshop participant
GP/Doctor and Researcher
- Stuart, the course you offered to us at the GP practice was a very worthwhile project for us. 15 people attended at the start and all but one person completed the five week course - this alone shows how valuable the patients felt the sessions were to them. All the patients said that if we plan to continue the sessions, they would all like to be part of a drop in service and have reported this information back to their GP's.
Professor, Sir Michael Dixon,
- MD (Founder of the Cullompton Medical Practice, Chair of NHS Alliance and Medical Director, Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health)
- I was fascinated to hear about your positive reception from the Secretariat of the "Health at Work" network. Certainly, if meditation groups have the same impact in business as they have had at my own GP practice, then considerable benefits will accrue in terms of individual health and wellbeing and, I suspect, productivity and attendance at work”.
Professor, Sir Michael Dixon
- MD (Founder of the Cullompton Medical Practice, Chair of NHS Alliance and Medical Director, Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health)
- Thank you very much for leading the Introduction to Meditation course in our practice last month. It was an excellent session and the feedback from our patients has been very positive. You are a skilful presenter who is deeply committed to your subject; you offered and demonstrated a wide range of different methods of accessing the meditative state. One patient said that the afternoon had made her feel fully relaxed for the first time in her life. Your programme is ideally suited to an NHS setting because of its emphasis on the health benefits, which are well supported by research. The programme would be useful for anyone, but will be of particular value to patients who have stress-related health problems.
Dr G Johnson, GP and Research Director, Stopsley Medical Practice
- Stuart led a half-day workshop for the partners & staff at our surgery. The time spent with him was highly instructive and very helpful - as well as being extremely relaxing.
Dr Andrew Sikorski
- Since the workshop feedback from all patient and staff participants has been very favourable, with a sense of gratitude for being offered the opportunity to learn a skill that can be adapted to personal use at any time required and is beneficial to life & health
Dr Ann Perkins
- I attended one of your workshops and wanted to say very many thanks to you for all aspects. I really appreciated the whole thing. Do you know you are an excellent psychologist?
Dr Denise Gribben
- Thanks so much for the session today Stuart. Apart from personally finding it highly useful and enjoyable, I was quite staggered by how much the Chronic Heart Disease patients engaged with and enjoyed your coaching. The feedback is excellent.
Professor Chris Dickens, Manchester University
- PTSD - Stuart created & delivered a research-based Meditation & Mindfulness programme for armed forces veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It was evaluated by which found the programme delivered statistically significant benefits to the participants in every area evaluated. Following the success of the PTSD study, Stuart was invited to deliver an international, research led study, based on his programme for armed forces veterans with PTSD and collaborating with different countries and additional researchers.
Edinburgh Napier University
- Stuart’s sessions were, without exception, evaluated as being both excellent in content & presentation. All staff & delegates felt they gained a great deal from these sessions. Training & Development Lead,
Midwifery Conference
- Thanks so much for coming and delivering the meditation and mindfulness session for MIND’s head office. I was really pleased with the session and I have had lots of positive feedback from staff.
MIND Mental Health charity
- There are certain things to do before one dies. Going to Chiva-Som spa in Thailand might be one of them. Hooray then, when Chiva-Som comes to ONE, as it did today at Josh Wood's Atelier in Holland Park. A team of practitioners & therapists were flown in from the resort, exclusively for the event. On offer, among other things, were "mindfulness & meditation tasters" from their Visiting Master, meditation coach, healer & positive psychology practitioner, Stuart Bold. British Vogue
Follow up quote
We recently finished evaluating a two-phase pilot, working with four groups of cardiac rehab patients and diabetes patients. Primary research outcomes were to assess the acceptability of Stuart’s programme and secondarily, to look at patient assessed benefits (physical and emotional). The University’s own underlying focus was on worry, stress & rumination in relation to long term health conditions and the findings demonstrated reduced levels of these. The pilot was very successful and a paper is now being written up by the University. An abstract of the paper has already been presented at the College of Medicine annual conference.
We recently finished evaluating a two-phase pilot, working with four groups of cardiac rehab patients and diabetes patients. Primary research outcomes were to assess the acceptability of Stuart’s programme and secondarily, to look at patient assessed benefits (physical and emotional). The University’s own underlying focus was on worry, stress & rumination in relation to long term health conditions and the findings demonstrated reduced levels of these. The pilot was very successful and a paper is now being written up by the University. An abstract of the paper has already been presented at the College of Medicine annual conference.
The study’s initial findings suggest a significant reduction in worry. Participants also reported a range of psychological and physical benefits and felt more able to manage their long-term conditions. Professor Chris Dickens, Manchester University
This is the reference for the publication of the research, in the scientific journal referred to – Journal of Behavioural Medicine. Vol 40, 2014:
PTSD – Stuart created and delivered a research-based Meditation & Mindfulness programme for armed forces veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The programme was evaluated by Edinburgh Napier University which found that the programme delivered statistically significant benefits to the participants in every area evaluated. Following the success of the PTSD study, Stuart was invited to deliver an international, research led study, based on his programme for armed forces veterans with PTSD and collaborating with different countries and additional researchers.
Midwifery Conference – Stuart’s sessions were, without exception, evaluated as being both excellent in content and presentation. All the staff and delegates felt they had gained a great deal from these sessions. Training & Development Lead, Midwifery Conference
Thanks so much for coming and delivering the meditation and mindfulness session for MIND’s head office. I was really pleased with the session and I have had lots of positive feedback from staff. MIND Mental Health charity
Some Press Quotes:
There are certain things to do before one dies. Going to the Chiva-Som spa in Thailand might be one of them. Hooray then, when Chiva-Som comes to ONE, as it did today at Josh Wood’s hub of an Atelier in Holland Park. A team of practitioners, therapists and a five-star chef were flown in from the resort in Hua Hin, Thailand, exclusively for the event. On offer, among other things, were “mindfulness & meditation group tasters” from the spa’s Visiting Master, meditation coach and positive psychology practitioner, Stuart Bold.
British Vogue
“There are certain things to do before one dies. Going to Chiva-Som spa in Thailand might be one of them. Hooray then, when Chiva-Som comes to ONE, as it did today at Josh Wood’s Atelier in Holland Park. A team of practitioners & therapists were flown in from the resort, exclusively for the event. On offer, among other things, were “mindfulness & meditation tasters” from their Visiting Master, meditation coach, healer & positive psychology practitioner, Stuart Bold. British Vogue
The following is an excerpt from a feature in London’s Metro newspaper – an interview with Dr Gina Johnson concerning Stuart’s meditation & mindfulness programme:
It’s soundly based on Western scientific research & evidence. It is straightforward, easy to understand and follow, and has no religious connotations.
Developing a meditation practice has huge benefits for both mind and body. It is particularly helpful for stress-related problems, but I would have no hesitation in also recommending the programme to anyone as a way of improving both their mental and physical health.
Stuart’s course is outstanding (for the reasons mentioned above) and is perfectly tailored to patient health needs. Until the development of this course, it has been difficult for Doctors to find a reputable course to which they can refer their patients to learn evidence-based meditation techniques, without any religious connotations.
It has no side effects, is free, and creates a wonderful sense of well-being.
Undoubtedly.
It elicits a profound relaxation response in the body, which favourably alters the balance of hormones (such as adrenaline) and many other stress indicators such as blood pressure and cholesterol.
There are very many more testimonials from private clients, businesses etc. relating to Stuart’s coaching, treatment sessions, programmes and workshops.
It’s soundly based on Western scientific research & evidence. It is straightforward, easy to understand and follow, and has no religious connotations.
Developing a meditation practice has huge benefits for both mind and body. It is particularly helpful for stress-related problems, but I would have no hesitation in also recommending the programme to anyone as a way of improving both their mental and physical health.
Stuart’s course is outstanding (for the reasons mentioned above) and is perfectly tailored to patient health needs. Until the development of this course, it has been difficult for Doctors to find a reputable course to which they can refer their patients to learn evidence-based meditation techniques, without any religious connotations.
It has no side effects, is free, and creates a wonderful sense of well-being.
Undoubtedly.
It elicits a profound relaxation response in the body, which favourably alters the balance of hormones (such as adrenaline) and many other stress indicators such as blood pressure and cholesterol.
Undoubtedly.
It elicits a profound relaxation response in the body, which favourably alters the balance of hormones (such as adrenaline) and many other stress indicators such as blood pressure and cholesterol.