Theme: Sparkle

On April 7th the Ucheldre Centre hosted TEDxHolyhead 2017.

The theme was ‘SPARKLE’ and we had some amazing speakers talking about mental health, well-being and how to ‘SPARKLE’ even in the darkest of times. In fact you’ll probably leave TEDxHolyhead realising that we need the darkness to experience the light.

A truly international set of speakers, and as usual TEDxHolyhead is punching above it’s weight in terms of calibre of speakers.

Ucheldre Centre
Mill Bank
Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey, LL65 1TE
United Kingdom

Barry Phillips

Entrepreneur ~ Disruptor ~ Ironman

Barry failed his 11+ and left school with just one “O” level. A careers officer advised him to take a job as a trainee office junior. Today, the former practising barrister is a published academic and chairman of a multi-award winning company based in Northern Ireland. He has worked at the European Parliament, the European Court of Human Rights and the International Labour Organisation in Geneva. He has travelled extensively and lived in eight different countries considering himself to be a global citizen first, a European second and British last of all. He is a former President of the Belfast Speakers’ Circle which was set up in 1945 to encourage and to practise the art of public speaking. Recently, for his 50th birthday Barry did an Ironman in France completing the 2.4 mile swim, the 112 mile bike ride and 26 mile run in 15 hours and 35 degree heat. He speaks Russian and Spanish and lives with his wife and daughter just outside Belfast.

Charlie Unwin

Performance Coach & Olympic Psychologist

Charlie graduated from Durham University where he read Psychology before joining the British Army as an officer in 2001. On return from Iraq Charlie was seconded into the Great Britain Modern Pentathlon Team. It was during his time as an athlete that Charlie’s passion for applied psychology flourished. Since then Charlie has worked with Olympic teams and athletes from five different sports. As the Performance Psychologist for GB Skeleton, Charlie worked with Lizzy Yarnold towards her becoming Olympic Champion at the Sochi Games in 2014. Since then he has contributed towards at least 7 European Gold Medals with athletes and teams across numerous sports.Charlie now shares his time between sport and business, working with global organisations and entrepreneurs to help them to achieve their own performance aspirations. He shares the latest research and practical insights into high performing environments, team dynamics, leadership, coaching and resilience.

Derek Mills

Author, Speaker & Coach

Author of The 10-Second Philosophy®, Derek is the coach’s coach and the adviser’s adviser. He speaks and lives authentically and shares how every business owner and leader can do the same for massive impact using the Daily Standards philosophy and practices. Derek has worked with FTSE100 companies, English Premier League scouts (Chelsea and Leicester City) and footballers, business owners, wealth managers and other coaches.

Erica Sosna

Storyteller ~ Career Coach ~ Author

Erica Sosna is the Author of Your Life Plan (Wiley, 2014). Erica’s love of storytelling and of human potential helped her create the Your Life Plan method. It’s a practical toolkit that enables people all over the world to discover what they love and lead a truly fulfilling and impactful life. Erica also advises FTSE 500 companies in their career, learning and retention strategies. Clients include: HSBC, AXA and Paypal.

Jay Baughan

Emotional Development Specialist & Social Entrepreneur

Based out of the UK and the UAE, Jay is a popular international speaker providing audiences with fascinating new insights into how to build Resilience, drawing upon his research and case studies to unveil the building blocks of Resilience and how to nurture this within communities. The founder of SEDi (Social Emotional Development Institute), Jay created a global approach to establishing and supporting a grass-root specialist capability in social emotional development across the world. He created the first regulated knowledge-to-practice professional qualification which sets a quality standard for the development of Resilience within communities, and his international collaborations and partnerships enable SEDi to provide a rich multi-expert, physical and digital environment for communities to adopt and to nurture Resilience. His global research into Emotional Capital within communities, defines, measures and reveals the prevailing social emotional skills within communities and level

Mindy Gibbins-Klein

Thought Leader ~ Author ~ Coach

Mindy Gibbins-Klein has been a speaker and trainer for 28 years. A Fellow of the PSA and even a past Regional President, she is well known and respected in the UK business community. A picture of success, many would say. But the past several years have thrown huge boulders in her path, causing her to doubt everything she had built over the years, including some important relationships. Clawing her way back up, Mindy challenged herself to find the gift in her situation and finally shift herself and her career. The result is nothing short of extraordinary: spectacular success in her business and deep clarity and fulfilment as a person. For the first time ever, Mindy is sharing with us the secrets of her transformation and a method for you to create your own transformation.

Nick Jankel

Leadership Advisor~ Wisdom Teacher ~ TV Host

Cambridge-educated author, thought leader and breakthrough virtuoso Nick Jankel has spent 25 years cracking the code of breakthrough to help leaders and individuals dance through comfort zones and group think to purposefully wrestle breakthroughs from the jaws of chaos. He will share a radically simple way to understand your biology and so take away the pain of transformation, whether business innovation or personal change, for good.

Sam Davies

Inspirational Speaker, Mental Health Advocate & Blogger

Sam grew up in a house where every day was a violent one due to an alcoholic and paranoid schizophrenic stepfather. Years later, after gaining an MSc in Psychology, Sam realised that not all those suffering from mental health problems are dangerous. Sam became a mental health advocate and spent eight years campaigning for the basic fundamental rights of those who were being stigmatised. Then one day her raison d’être was taken from her. Sam was made redundant. With her job loss her identity dissolved too. Within months, Sam changed from being a confident outspoken woman, to a hurting mess. The mental health professional had become the client. Sam will share her journey to show people that having a breakdown, having depression, or any other form of illness is not the end of the road. People can get through a day. Sam uses poetry and humour to tell her journey to get people shifting their perspective.

Scott Bell

Author, Speaker & Twice Guinness World Record Holder for longest distance walked on Fire

Scott Bell is an author, inspirational speaker, Founder of UK Firewalk and twice Guinness World Record holder for the greatest distance walked on fire. Scott has appeared on numerous radio (including Chris Evans & Jeremy Vine’s Radio 2 shows) and TV programmes. He is married with two children, loves to travel and recently became a qualified scuba diver. Scott is passionate about peak performance and how to get the best out of people. With his background in training, sales, management and consulting, Scott can Talk the Talk and more importantly Walk the Walk. He can make the most uninspired become alive and want to change their ways. He worked with ex professional footballer Neil ‘Razor’ Ruddock to help change the lives of 15 dysfunctional young men and change their outlook on life. (TV programme ‘Football Saved My Life’)

Yvie Johnson

Adventurer ~ Mental Health Advocate with a ‘Fierce Mind’

Yvie has three bilingual children, lives with her freelance Mountain Leader partner in North Wales, explores creative & mindful adventuring as a form of therapy, with writing, photography and illustration being essential components of her cathartic skillset. Yvie blogs on subjects such as mental health and managing bipolar disorder, as well as the relationships between sufferer, carer and immediate family. Using sport, exercise and nutrition as part of her therapeutic toolbox, she is a staunch supporter of learning to understand your own version of therapy, and making it work for you. A former Team GB age-group triathlete, adventure racer, duathlete and mountain runner, having represented her country, triathlon club and police force, she is now setting her sights on a 2017 year of adventure in Wales, to once again fight with a fierce mind. 5 multi-stage endurance challenges, this time focusing on understanding from the perspective of her role as a parent, advocating for improved menta