Our Educational and Wellbeing Services are provided by founder Ricky Defoe 

RICKY’s WORK

Ricky draws on informal education and lived-experience mentorship to foster emotional competence and wellness within individuals and communities.


His alternative, experience-based approach is both unique and profoundly effective, empowering not only individuals and service providers to enhance their own wellbeing, but also to better support the emotional needs of those they serve.


How is the service delivered? 

  • Placing conversation at the centre of the activities
  • Operate in a wide range of settings – These include offices, centres  schools, colleges and universities, workplaces, and social, cultural and art settings
  • Look to create or deepen situations where people can learn spontaneously, explore and enlarge experience, and make changes
  • Place a special emphasis on building just and democratic relationships and organisations that allow people to share openly


Using a variety of methods such as:

  • Group work, casual conversation, art and role play activities, work with individuals and casework. While the work for much of the time is informal – we also make use of formal approaches to facilitate learning.
  • Working with people of all ages.
  • Particular special interests such as service user work, emotional competence, emotional development, Emotional wellness, personal development and career development, community development, emotional literacy. 
 

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ABOUT RICKY

Ricky is a humanitarian and both social cohesion and emotional education are extremely important to him. He is dedicated to helping people grow and be of devoted counsel to society. He provides emotional wellbeing facilitation, education and being a daoist practitioner for over ten years he incorporates this into his work for the individual or group. The work includes topics on emotional wellbeing development, gaining personal empowerment, overcoming anxiety, successfully adapting to life stresses , finding stillness and clarity, cognitive awareness, and equanimity.

Ricky has been providing emotional wellness development for over 10 years. Public and private experience includes working for the NHS, BBC Studios, NBC Universal, Harris Federation Academy, The Children’s Society, Mind and many more.

Ricky provides bespoke, non-conventional educational programmes for professional adults, and groups. Benucation provides empowering education and mentorship to individuals as well as institutions, public service staff the third sector plus many more. 

Please get in touch with on the Contact page or find our details below of this site if you’re interested in a wellbeing programme or need a Facilitator. 

Free consultation via Email, phone or contacting us on our social media outlets.

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