Who we are

A peace ambassador, meditation trainer, and humanitarian from Jordan with over a decade of experience in mindfulness, wellbeing, and emotional healing. She bridges Eastern wisdom with global healing efforts, guiding individuals and communities toward inner peace and resilience. As a trustee of Mandala Trust, she is committed to supporting vulnerable populations, especially in conflict-affected areas, through compassion, presence, and transformative practices that foster healing and sustainable peace.

A facilitator with twenty years' experience of holding programmes as part of leadership & organisation development and multi-stakeholder conversations within large organisations, the public sector and communities. Her desire is to enable warm and inviting conditions for a collective energy for change to come about. She has a practice within the arts that is at the foundation of how she works, and enjoys the differing challenges of creating connected spaces – whether in-person or online – that work for all. 

Founder of Mandala Trust in 2002 and current chair of the board of trustees.  A qualified nurse and development practitioner, he has led a number of community development and health projects in Europe and Africa, facilitated and taken part in processes with social, ecological and animal liberation activists internationally, worked for climate justice, and lectured on radical political thought.  Matt has a PhD in politics.  His books include Love and revolution and the forthcoming Deep Commons.

Operations manager for the Khuphuka Project offering community development, early childhood development, and health services, he co-founded Khanyisa – a transformative education programme working with young men, boys, women and girls (aged 13–25) in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, at the epicentre of the global HIV & AIDS pandemic.  He has also worked for the AIDS Foundation of South Africa on a number of youth projects, and is currently a ward councillor for his local municipality.

Jacqueline is treasurer of the board of trustees. She has an academic background in law, human rights and equality, working in the NGO sector in Ireland for many years in the areas of migration, anti-racism and gender equality. She worked at a senior level in the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission - Ireland’s national human rights institution. Jacqueline is passionate about social and ecological justice, and has a strong track record of solidarity work with marginalised communities internationally.