Natalie Talks with Iona Jenkins Author, Creative Writer and Poet

Our guest today, Iona Jenkins, is a writer and poet with an MA in Education (Guidance and Counseling), professional diplomas in Person-Centered Counseling, Clinical Hypnotherapy, and Hypnotherapy & Psychotherapy. Iona began working life as a French teacher in her home county of Yorkshire. Working in London later, she mentored trainee and newly qualified teachers in the modern languages department of her school. She attended evening lectures and seminars to complete an MA. Enthusiasm for mentoring and the therapeutic content of the degree course inspired Iona to retrain weekends as a counselor/psychotherapist and clinical hypnotherapist. Employed part-time, with clients in multi-ethnic settings, she was able to freelance as a counseling skills trainer

Iona’s passionate interest in spiritual growth inspired an exploration of Eastern and Western spiritual philosophies and practices, the idea of a language of angels as a stream of inspiration, creative wisdom, and beauty flowing through everything, the energy of sacred sites at home and abroad, and labyrinth walking. Practicing meditation with Tibetan Buddhists in London, then mindfulness with Samye Ling Wales and the Mindfulness Association, Iona was finally able to see her own spiritual home with the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids, and the Companions of Chalice Well

Exploring growth and change through her creativity, Iona’s path of art and soul is inspired by angels, wisdom, nature, land, legend, and living by the ocean on the south coast of magical Wales.

BOOK:  To Sing with Bards and Angels: A Journey into the Creative Heart - December 9, 2022

https://www.ionajenkins.com