
John Newton
Navigating Racial Trauma, Healing and Growth
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John Newton is an Aftercare Worker at Trafford Council and a qualified MBSR Mindfulness Teacher through Mind in Salford.
As a Trainer and Group Facilitator, he specialises in mindfulness for stress reduction, health, and wellbeing within both the workplace and local communities.
John combines his personal journey of identity and a lived Black experience to offer and deliver creative safe spaces for healing individual and collective trauma, specifically associated with people of colour communities.
As a Youth and Community Worker of over 28 years, along with 10 years of meditation practice and accessing annual retreats to ensure continued awareness of self-compassion common humanity as the bedrock of his practice, John is passionate about working with individuals and communities to enable growth and learning.