David Rycroft

David is the director of Teach Peace.

He is also a director of Mind With Heart, an international charity, training teachers and students in sustainable wellbeing, emotional health and social connection.

David trains mindfulness instructors and school teachers in tools for wellbeing and emotional health and in sharing these with teenagers. Researchers into Mind With Heart's trainings recently concluded that students who had completed their programmes became more respectful and less violent, were less inclined to indoctrination and radicalisation, and more ready to learn.

Educated at Eton College and Edinburgh University, he taught art in a London secondary school for ten years before co-founding Mind With Heart. With an MA in Art History and an MA is Buddhist Studies, David is also an practising artist and runs retreats combining painting and mindfulness.

Sophie Hardy

Sophie is a primary school Director (since 2012) and Teacher (since 2001) in Belgium.

Passionate about pedagogy and well-being, she has ten years experience in introducing mindfulness to children (3 - 13 years old) as well as training her team of teachers. She has witnessed time and again the benefits of establishing a school culture that values peace, self-confidence, clear-thinking, imagination and empathy.