User:Michael Timpson/sandbox

Michael (Mick) Peter Timpson Most of my work now is as a Social Entrepreneur working in the fields of yoga and meditation based personal, workplace and community wellbeing, creativity and happiness. I am the founder and CEO of beanddo™ – a specialist meditation based training consultancy promoting happiness, creativity and wellbeing techniques for business and education - At beanddo we work with managers, business leaders, artists, lawyers, scientists, health workers, parents, civil servants, teachers, accountants, musicians, designers and entrepreneurs - In fact anyone who has decided to take control to Do More, Be more and worry less.

I also lead, The YogaLife Project™, a community based initiative teaching yoga and meditation and teacher training for future yoga teachers. I have a double first in architecture and practiced as a chartered architect for over 30 years. I have taught design and led studios in a number of Architecture Schools in London and South East. I have also led, owned and managed design businesses at senior level.

I am also a registered Senior Yoga Teacher Professional with The Yoga Alliance UK.

I am an award-winning artist. I have exhibited at the Royal Academy, Saatchi Gallery, RIBA Gallery, Architecture Foundation and CUBE. As an architect I have worked on projects all over the world from Mexico, city Moscow, Helsinki, Dubai to Manchester. I was a lead designer on the master plan to rebuild Manchester after the IRA bombing.

I have given many talks on yoga and architecture. He has also taught many yoga students yoga and architecture students how to practice creativity. The origin of beanddo can be traced when I realised I had been talking about the same thing to each audience – how creativity and happiness are linked and fully experienced when Being and Doing and merge.

I am an experienced, engaging and entertaining speaker and is available for keynote talks and appearances at public events.