“When you find a path from rock bottom, back to 10 out of 10 - it becomes your duty as a human being to light the way for your community.”
David Eakins - Founder
The advertising inductry is my community
David Eakins
With a 20-year career as a Senior Art Director in some of the world's leading advertising agencies, David was well-acquainted with stress. However, when he encountered significant trauma in his personal life, its toll on his mental well-being culminated in a suicide attempt.
After finding his way back to a happier place, David, alongside the wonderful professionals who aided him in his five-year healing journey, dedicates himself to educating employees on mental health management and guiding organisations in fostering authentic cultures of resilience.
Founder, Senior Art Director, Psychotherapy student.
Darren Abrahams
Trauma Specialist & Human Hive Co-Founder
Travelling the world and learning from different cultures, Darren experienced the long term effects of trauma on individuals and communities, and how this experience lay at the heart of many of the world’s problems. Upon his return, Darren trained as a body focussed trauma therapist and is now an expert in understanding how the nervous system biologically, psychologically, and socially affects human beings. He now operates his private practice.
Determined to create even greater positive change, Darren co-founded The Human Hive and works with change making people and organisations, globally, to help them share skills, build relationships, and co-create solutions to issues that are important to them, starting from the nervous system out.
Dr James Mannion
Director of Rethinking Education, Podcaster, Associate of Cambridge & UCL, TedX speaker.
James is the Director of Rethinking Education, an organisation dedicated to improving outcomes for young people through implementation science, self-regulated learning and practitioner inquiry. He has a Masters in person-centred education from the University of Sussex, and a PhD in self-regulated learning from the University of Cambridge.
Until recently, James was a Bespoke Programmes Leader at the UCL Centre for Educational Leadership. In this role, he worked with teachers and leaders to promote research-informed approaches to professional development and school improvement. He is an Associate of Oracy Cambridge, a Founding Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching and a By-Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge.
James is also the host of the popular Rethinking Education podcast, now in the top 3% globally. The podcast features long-form conversations with a wide range of guests about how we might reform education to bring about a more harmonious, less hair-raising state of world affairs.
Kerry Moor
Psychology Undergraduate:
University of Sussex
Kerry is part of an interdisciplinary team of academics exploring, investigating, and illuminating the power of kindness and its impacts on people and communities.
With the world witnessing an epidemic of mental health issues, learning how to cope with the stresses in life, and how to process our emotions, should be a core part of education. Because education is the biggest component for children to gain all the skills they need for a balanced life. So, life education is what the system needs to provide. But currently, it does not.
After finishing their final year, Kerry is committed to pursue their passion to create a positive impact on the UK education system through the power of kindness - making Kerry’s work absolutely essential for the health and survival of future generations.
