Peter Bearder Email & Phone Number

Pete is a mental trainer for Tough Cookie, an organisation that works to prevent mental health problems in the workplace. Mixed Mental Arts has been taught in organisations such as the BBC. Mixed Mental Arts training came 'Highly Commended' by judges in the 2020 This Can Happen Awards, which celebrates excellence in workplace mental health strategy across Europe, Asia and North America.As well as being a mental resilience trainer, Pete Bearder is an award-winning writer, performer, and educator, whose work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, The World Service, and Newsnight. He is a former National Poetry Slam Champion and has performed and delivered workshops around the world with organisations such as The British Council. Pete has worked extensively as a spoken word educator through the Spoken Word Education Programme in collaboration with Goldsmiths University and cultural institutions including The Southbank Centre, The Arvon Foundation, and The British Library. In 2019 he released a new book about performance poetry with Out-Spoken Press - Stage Invasion: Poetry, Renewal and the Spoken Word Renaissance. The book was described as 'the book we have all been waiting for', by Ian MacMillan (BBC Radio 3).

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  Wellness Specialist

  Tough Cookie

  Sep 2020 - Present

  Pete is a mental resilience coach for Tough Cookie, an organisation that works to prevent mental health problems in the workplace. Mixed Mental Arts has been taught in organisations including Facebook, Shell and the BBC. Mixed Mental Arts training came 'Highly Commended' by judges in the 2020 This Can Happen Awards, which celebrates excellence in workplace mental health strategy across Europe, Asia and North America.As well as being a mental resilience trainer, Pete Bearder is an award-winning writer, performer, and educator, whose work has been featured on BBC Radio 4, The World Service, and Newsnight. He is a former National Poetry Slam Champion and has performed and delivered workshops around the world with organisations such as The British Council. Pete has worked extensively as a spoken word educator through the Spoken Word Education Programme in collaboration with Goldsmiths University and cultural institutions including The Southbank Centre, The Arvon Foundation, and The British Library. In 2019 he released a new book about performance poetry with Out-Spoken Press - Stage Invasion: Poetry, Renewal and the Spoken Word Renaissance. The book was described as 'the book we have all been waiting for', by Ian MacMillan (BBC Radio 3).