About Us

What is MindfulPlayUK?

MindfulPlayUK is a Mindful Coaching and Facilitation Consultancy based in Aberdeen, Scotland. We specialize in using engaging methods to help individuals, teams and communities integrate mindfulness into their lives for personal and professional growth and for improved well-being.

Renegade IT Consultants, trading under the MindfulPlayUK brand, offers a mindful coaching and facilitation consultancy. We help clients with training, development, and coaching of systems, projects, and people and our principal consultant, Karen Grayburn, is an executive coach and expert in Mindfulness and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® who has published research on the topic.

Services We Offer and Provide

We Understand Knowledge Management. We Practice Mindfulness. We Play Seriously.

We provide clients with Mindful Coaching and Facilitation Consultants who are skilled in the areas of training, development and coaching of systems, projects and people:

• Transformational, Dynamic, Life, Business and Executive Coaching - Helping clients make significant changes in their lives or careers, adapt to change and achieve their goals, improve their overall well-being, or their business and leadership skills.
• Mindfulness and Compassion - Offering mindfulness and compassion training, which can help be present, reduce stress and improve their relationships.
• Facilitating and training LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshops and certifications to help teams and organizations solve problems and make decisions.
• Knowledge and Information Management - Helping clients manage their knowledge and information more effectively.
• Change Management - Helping clients manage change more effectively.
• Agile Project Management and Scrum Frameworks - Helping clients manage their projects more effectively using Agile and Scrum frameworks.
• Mentoring team members to develop their skills and empower insights - Helping team members develop their skills and empower insights.
• Speaking English, Spanish and French - Offering services in English, Spanish and French.

Principal Consultant

Karen Grayburn

Karen is an enthusiastic, emotionally engaged, and mindful coaching and facilitation consultant with an ILM Level 7 Diploma in Executive Coaching and Mentoring. She has over twenty years' global experience in Information Systems. Recognizing the synergy between technology and human systems, she integrates mindfulness into her practice.

With a deep interest and training in Mindfulness, Karen’s coaching style encompasses the mindful and compassionate techniques she has embodied. She has also attained an MSc from the University of Aberdeen in Studies in Mindfulness and is qualified as Ready to Teach for both the MBLC and CBLC courses provided by the Mindfulness Association.

Karen is also an Enhanced, and Real-Time Change® Facilitator in LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® method and materials, and an Inthrface Certified Training Partner of the Gold Standard Foundational Certificate.

As well as publishing an autoethnography based on her research carried out for her MSc Studies in Mindfulness: “How can the practice of Mindfulness enhance the facilitation of LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® workshops?”, she is a Usui and Karuna Reiki Master Teacher, Shamanic Practitioner and Mental Health First Aider (certified by MHFA England), inspiring individuals to thrive personally and professionally through her expertise and commitment to well-being.

Karen is an executive coach who inspires people to do well and be well every day.