Our Trustees

Anita Jones

Anita is a trained secondary school teacher specialising in English and Drama. For the last 8 years she has been running Circle of Security Parenting groups at the Connected Lives London Hub and helping to introduce the approach across the UK.

A mother of four, she uses her experiences to connect with parents to promote empathic and reflective parenting.

Lindsey Hayward

Lindsey trained worked for many years as a Paediatric Physiotherapist and latterly as a Montessori teacher. She has helped to run Hold Me Tight courses and is a Circle of Security facilitator. She is a mother of three girls and a grandmother.

Nicola Morriss

Nicola qualified as an Intellectual Property  lawyer working primarily on international patent disputes for large pharma clients. She took a career break to raise her three children before returning to work, and now works as a charities lawyer in London.

Nicola qualified as a Circle of Security facilitator in 2016 and has since run courses for groups, couples and individuals.  Nicola is also a qualified life coach.  She is passionate about helping people understand the potential they have for transforming their world through better relationships and, in particular, loves working with parents and seeing the difference that the Circle of Security parenting course makes to them and their children.

Maggie Sandilands

Maggie Sandilands is a humanitarian aid worker with over 15 years experience working with NGOs in various countries including Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Iraq. Her work has focused on responding to gender-based violence in conflict and humanitarian contexts. Now leading a quieter life in London.

Daniel has been working in sales management and business excellence for over 20 years and is passionate about process engineering and digitalisation. He has held positions in IT, Sales Enablement and Channel Management in companies around the world, has been an entrepreneur working in Southern Africa and is currently working as a Global Manager for Digital Enablement and Process Innovation for one of the world's largest industrial corporations.

With his long business experience in many fields and his enthusiastic passion for improving work processes, Daniel has joined our Board of Trustees to help Connected Lives become more effective and efficient, to help it grow and thrive.