Karen Skehel

Since 2002 as a leadership and personal coach, Karen Skehel has helped hundreds of clients in many different sectors with many leadership and personal challenges in order to achieve happiness, wellness and success. All her coaching has had a compassion focused dimension to it. A childhood history of being unwanted and unloved; and having experienced the mental health suffering that this generated, inspired Karen to develop an integrated programme of Compassion Focused practices to turn suffering for herself and for others into flourishing. As well as her Compassion focused leadership coaching, She has also developed a repertoire of Compassion Focused well being initiatives;….. ie Compassion Focused Mind/Body Mindfulness; Compassion Focused Movement to Music and a series of Self Compassion focused integrative workshops. Many have testified to the positive impact on their well being through joining her self compassion focused sessions Karen has a number of claims to fame: She has coached in front of 1.5 million people on the UK’s most popular day time programme on ITV (UK’s answer to The Oprah Show) and has also appeared on ITV2. Over four years, she wrote for Natural Health Magazine as The Soul Doctor and The Life Coach contributing a page addressing readers’ life challenges every month. She has also showcased her Compassion focused Movement to Music with Moving Meditation on BBC1 (The One Show), and on international TV as far afield as South Korea (in a documentary on dance for well being); The presence of Covid has called Karen to integrate the differing strands of her work under a Compassion focused umbrella; It is the work she was born to do. (For all of us, it is said that our wounds are the guide to the work we are here to do) Today Karen helps organisations improve productivity & reduce mental health absence with a fully integrated Compassion Focused programme which includes both compassion focused leadership coaching & compassion focused wellbeing Initiatives. She shares this work with many charities too; Currently she is volunteering for Mind.