David completed his social work training in Glasgow, Scotland, and has spent the last 40 years working with people with cognitive impairments and cancer. 

David has had a keen interest in learning about the mind -body connection and trained with Dr Jon Kabat-Zinn at the Centre for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts. There, he completed his teacher training in Mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) and has been facilitating programs for over 20 years.