Amy Finlay-Jones

Amy is an Associate Professor, therapist, and contemplative practice facilitator who is dedicated to helping others cultivate more balanced, connected, and meaningful lives through compassion and mindfulness practice.She is a skilled group facilitator with over 10 years of experience delivering mindfulness- and compassion-based approaches in clinical, community, and organisational settings.Amy’s teaching draws on many years of personal practice, her passion for social justice and activism, and her lived experience of long-term chronic illness.She founded Kindful in 2015 to support the cultivation of compassion as a means of creating positive change in the world.Amy is a certified Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) facilitator and a trained Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher, trained at Stanford University and through the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion to deliver these programs.She is also trained to teach the Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living and Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens programs.Amy holds Masters degrees in Clinical Psychology and Health Economics and a PhD in Clinical Psychology.She is involved in ongoing research that investigates the effects of compassion training on intra- and interpersonal well-being.She has developed several online self-compassion training programs and is the lead editor of the Handbook of Self-Compassion.