Mandy Preece and Lucinda Hawksley - The Goldster Conversations Podcast
Episode 44, Jul 14, 2023, 06:00 PM
Mandy Preece is an award-winning communications trainer, author and a soul midwife – also known as a ‘holistic end-of-life practitioner’. Mandy gives motivational talks on the art of 'being alongside' other people, in life and at the end of life. Heartfelt, honest, funny and poignant, Mandy inspires us to find new ways to support each other. Her book Being Rock (which redefines listening) was published in 2020.
After losing her parents and a close friend, Mandy switched careers from being a legal editor to sitting with people at the end of their life to ensure that someone is there at all times. She trained as soul midwife in 2011 and initiated a volunteer bedside companion scheme at an NHS palliative care unit in Dorset in 2013. Since then she has supported other hospices and hospitals to set up similar schemes so people do not die alone. Her experiential communications training received the Princess Royal Training Award in 2017 and in 2019 Mandy was named the NHS Unsung Hero Volunteer of the Year. Mandy’s joy of receiving the Award was matched by being asked to be part of an NHS/Helpforce Steering Group on volunteering within the NHS,
To watch the original recording of this episode please click here.
After losing her parents and a close friend, Mandy switched careers from being a legal editor to sitting with people at the end of their life to ensure that someone is there at all times. She trained as soul midwife in 2011 and initiated a volunteer bedside companion scheme at an NHS palliative care unit in Dorset in 2013. Since then she has supported other hospices and hospitals to set up similar schemes so people do not die alone. Her experiential communications training received the Princess Royal Training Award in 2017 and in 2019 Mandy was named the NHS Unsung Hero Volunteer of the Year. Mandy’s joy of receiving the Award was matched by being asked to be part of an NHS/Helpforce Steering Group on volunteering within the NHS,
To watch the original recording of this episode please click here.