Office Om HQ

At Office Om, we love what we do and we're all passionate about workplace wellbeing. Get in touch if you'd like a chat.

Cathy Bailey

Cathy Bailey is the founder of Office Om.  She loves visiting different workplaces and is passionate about creating proactive wellbeing solutions that really work. Cathy is a BACP registered counsellor and a Yoga Alliance 200hr trained yoga teacher.  Cathy found mindfulness, yoga and counselling in her late teens and she credits with making a massive positive impact on her life. Cathy practices mindfulness and yoga daily, and has studied them in various forms.  Cathy started counselling training in 2004 and trained as a yoga teacher a few years ago.  That’s not to say that she's totally sorted, flexible, chilled out and Mrs Zen, but she does have a load of skills and strategies to help out when life gets busy. Cathy loves helping others and is keen to share Office Om with more people.

Osk Danielsdottir

Osk is a consultant with Office Om and loves speaking to our customers, as well as designing and delivering sessions. Osk is a qualified yoga teacher, with a special interest in meditation and breathwork. She has a background in corporate training, specialising in helping international clients communicate more effectively across cultures. She has more recently developed and delivered workshops to staff and students at Cardiff Metropolitan University.  As well as her yogic skills, she is developing an expertise in positive psychology and its application to corporate wellbeing and our mental health. She is passionate about how we can all look after our mental health using easily accessible tools and techniques derived from yoga and beyond!

Micael Thomas

Micael works in the background to support Office Om and may be answering your emails and enquiries. Micael is a Virtual Assistant based in Cardiff and specialises in supporting start-ups and small businesses. Micael has a background in finance, administration and is a qualified legal secretary. Micael's aim is to support businesses with a range of services to lighten the load of all the tasks required of a small business owner without the burden of expensive employee costs.

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Carolyn Louise

Carolyn is a freelance marketer for Office Om and currently manages our social media accounts. Carolyn has a background in event management, marketing and communications, as well as running her own wedding planning business! Leading such as busy lifestyle mindfulness is an important part of Carolyn's daily routine and she has also been practising yoga for nearly 10 years. ​

Other facilitators

At Office Om, we love bringing in expert facilitators to enhance what we do. Here are a few:

Jo Bogacz

Jo is a yoga teacher based in Cardiff, Wales. Practicing yoga for over 20 years, Jo offers a space for you to seek well-being and balance through your own developing yoga practice.  Jo’s emphasis is on bringing greater awareness and a renewed vitality to the mind & body. Jo discovered yoga in the 1990’s and finds the healing effect of yoga nurturing and restorative, bringing integrity, balance and clarity to her life.  Her classes support you to use the path of yoga as a process to find your own way authentically and to reconnect with yourself.
Jo is motivated to teach by her genuine interest in people and is a qualified British Wheel of Yoga teacher, Well-Woman Yoga therapist, Total Yoga Nidra facilitator & teacher, and Gentle Years Yoga teacher.  She has further intensive training in pranayama, meditation and philosophy.  Jo works in an empowering and insightful way focusing on holistic health and brings the qualities of compassion and kindness to her teaching.  Jo teaches hatha yoga and meditation with the aim of improving physical, mental and emotional well-being. Her yoga classes are gentle and nurturing combining asana (physical postures) and pranayama (yogic breathing) with a strong emphasis on mindfulness & relaxation.

Keith Hackwood 

Keith Hackwood is an experienced psychotherapist, supervisor and mindfulness teacher, and has practiced meditation since the mid-1990s, mostly within the Tibetan Buddhist tradition.
Keith started teaching meditation in 2004/5 and has worked with Mindful Space since 2009 completing a teaching apprenticeship and co-facilitating courses with Vicki Worsley, before going on to run Level I and II courses himself.
Beyond Mindful Space Keith has run Mindfulness courses for a variety of organisations including Cardiff, Cardiff Metropolitan and South Wales Universities, within the NHS, and for housing association, The Seren Group. 
Keith lives and works in Newport where he has a private psychotherapy and supervision practice. He has extensive experience working within organisations, including businesses, third sector organisations, universities, schools and prisons. Through his work as a therapist (and including much work using drama and movement therapy) Keith has developed approaches to using Mindfulness within a wider psychological process of growth and healing, rooted in a relational way of working.

Diane Dobbs

Diane is a yoga teacher and holistic massage practitioner. She qualified in yoga with the British Wheel of Yoga in 2006 and more recently in Holistic Massage from the Massage Training Institute and Cardiff Metropolitan University. She’s passionate about exploring new ways of working with others on their journey to wellbeing.
Diane offers practical, holistic advice, with the aim of creating the best practice or treatment for her clients, be it energising, grounding or relaxing. She is a member of recognised governing bodies for yoga and massage, ensuring clients receive current advice and best practice, to support their journey to health and wellbeing. To support this, she is qualified in First Aid and holds DBS Enhanced status.
Qualified in teaching and learning, Diane is an effective communicator and educator, with experience of working in higher education and the workplace.