Vidyamala Burch
From Adversity to Flourishing
Vidyamala Burch OBE is one of the world’s leading voices on resilience, mindfulness and human flourishing.
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Living with life-changing injuries and chronic pain from an early age, she discovered a path not only to surviving adversity, but to thriving within it. Today, she shares the lessons from that journey with audiences around the world.
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Combining personal experience, evidence-based insights and decades of teaching, Vidyamala delivers transformative talks that inspire people to lead with courage, cultivate wellbeing and discover new possibilities in the face of life's challenges.
"I admire Vidyamala tremendously. Her work could save your life - and give it back to you."
Jon Kabat-Zinn
PhD., scientist, best-selling author, founder of the MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction)
A Voice for Resilience, Wellbeing and Human Flourishing
On Stage
Keynotes, conferences and panel discussions that inspire audiences to cultivate resilience, navigate adversity and flourish in the face of life’s challenges.
In Organisations
Leadership, wellbeing and staff engagement events that equip people and teams with practical tools for resilience, compassionate leadership and sustainable wellbeing.
In Conversation
Vidyamala brings warmth, wisdom and evidence-based insights to podcasts, interviews and media discussions.
"Vidyamala’s work is absolutely brilliant, grounded in both deep science and her own deep realization. It’s the most effective approach I know for easing physical pain through mental practices; it’s also widely applicable to other kinds of stress and suffering. And in the essence of her methods is a life-transforming compassion and wisdom."
Rick Hanson
PhD., psychologist, best-selling author, Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center
Praise for Vidyamala and her work
Ruby Wax
Comedian, best-selling author, mental health campaigner
Vidyamala is an amazing woman. When I interviewed her I never saw her flicker in pain, not once. She just sat there and glowed.
Jeremy Hunter
Co-founder of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute at The Drucker School
The power of Vidyamala Burch’s teaching comes from the visceral example of her own existence. She possesses a singular authority that inescapably demonstrates the mind’s potential to transform pain into love, wisdom and radiance.
Mark Williams
Best-selling author, Co-founder of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and Emeritas Professor University of Oxford
​The book [Living Well with Pain and Illness] is a moving and compelling invitation to bring a radically new way of working with the fact of our pain...Vidyamala knows of what she speaks.
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