Dr Beverley Duguid is the founder of InsightMind.

 

Beverley works in an inter-sectional way, holistically, addressing the whole person. She sees society as constructing the barriers which can be disabling but as Audre Lorde said we can use ‘human difference as a springboard for creating change within our lives'.

 

​She is also a teacher, writer, poet and historian. From a young age, she was naturally interested in what was ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ with the world. She’s spent her life researching, writing and campaigning against social injustices - chiefly racism, sexism and more recently spreading awareness about visual impairment.

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In 2009 Beverley was diagnosed with glaucoma, despite failing sight, she graduated with a PhD in gender history from Royal Holloway in 2010.

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This year, she was awarded a  Level one Teacher Training Certificate in mindfulness with the Mindfulness Network. 

 

She is a committee member of Bame Vision, an organisation which exists to address the inequalities experienced by blind and partially sighted people and those at risk of sight loss from BAME communities.

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InsightMind is mental health aware. Which means we understand the factors that can affect people's wellbeing.  

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InsightMind courses have been funded by, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and its work supported by, the Arts Council England Emergency response fund 2020.

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