Dean Francis

Dean and Aesha Francis are co-founders of the Urban Mindfulness Foundation, a not-for-profit social enterprise providing free mindfulness training courses to those normally unable to afford personal development training. Every course is underpinned by an ethos of developing a socially focused mindfulness practice that places the emphasis on radical inclusion and collaboration designed to help embrace the challenges of urban living. Dean is also a trained Environmental Scientist and with Aesha runs an Environmental Consultancy. Dean was a member of a Government Advisory Group for over 10 years and with Aesha, co-created the Mindfulness Based Inclusion Training programme (MBIT). Both are studying mindfulness at Master level with the University of Aberdeen and mix formal environmental training with mindfulness training that provides a foundation of understanding our relationships to self, others, the rest of nature, the environment and the importance of interdependence, coexistence and symbiosis that runs deep into a social mindfulness practice and life itself.