Befriending the present! Befriending yourself!
About us
MindfulPath aims to provide workshops and courses to support your personal journey in mindfulness and self-compassion to bring more balance and ease stress in your life. We bring together a team of enthusiastic specifically trained teachers in Mindfulness and Self-Compassion by the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion and the UC San Diego Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute.
The teachers in addition to extensive professional training, have each many years of personal practice in Meditation, Mindfulness and Self-Compassion. They are secular in their approach and bear witness to the balance, strength and resilience that those practices have to offer, especially, in times of crisis in their own life.
Mindfulness and Self-Compassion allow us to grow by enriching our lives with self-kindness: promoting awareness and self-acceptance, regulating stress and emotion as well as extending our ability to savour more deeply the positive moments, to over shadow the difficult times and magnify the joy of living. Each day we can begin again, anew, revitalizing our body, mind and heart, to find renewed vitality and purpose.
Marie Bloomfield - Gold Coast
Clinical Psychologist and Mindful Self-Compassion Teacher, Founder of MindfulPath
B.Sc(Psych.), M.Clin. Psych(UNSW), MAPS(Coll.Clin.Psych.)
Marie Bloomfield is a leader in teaching Mindfulness and Self-Compassion in Australia. She is a warm, experienced and engaging clinical psychologist and accredited Mindful Self-Compassion teacher. In addition to providing many workshops every year for professionals and everyone, Marie has a successful private practice as is a registered Clinical Psychologist and Medicare provider at the Gold Coast. For more information on her current or future workshops or to inquire for a private session you can ring 0427795721 or email marie@bloomfieldpsychology.com.au
John Julian - Melbourne
Social Worker and Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, Founder of Thinking Healthy (Melbourne)
BA, BSW, AMHSW
John is a counsellor/psychotherapist and certified mindful self-compassion teacher. He was initially trained as a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction(MBSR) teacher and then subsequently trained as a fully accredited Mindful Self Compassion(MSC) teacher. For many years he has practised as a clinical social worker registered with Medicare. He has been a mental health professional for around 40 years and has a strong personal commitment to mindfulness and compassion-focused approaches.
For more information on his current or future workshops or to inquire for a private session you can ring 0439 901 795 or email
For more information you can visit his website Thinking Healthy
Marianna Lolas
Clinical Psychologist and assistant Teacher
Grad.Dip. Psych., M.Clin. Psych., MAPS, FCCLP.
Marianna is a Clinical Psychologist working in private practice. Helping others has always been Marianna’s passion and has motivated a diverse and rewarding career across many different fields and industries. Before clinical psychology, Marianna spent many years working in large corporate companies, specialising in understanding consumer behaviour, advising strategy, research and training teams. She also worked as a Clinical Hypnotherapist. Marianna holds a Masters in Applied Science - Food Science and Nutrition, an Advanced Diploma in Hypnosis and has spent time studying meditation. Marianna’s psychological experience covers both the private and public sector, with adults’ teens and children, across a few therapeutic disciplines including Mindful Self Compassion / Compassion based therapies.
Marianna enjoys positively impacting and empowering others through a holistic approach, compassion and scientific knowledge.