Who we are
Candice Marro is a psychotherapist, craniosacral therapist (BCST) and certified mindfulness teacher (IMTA-CMT-P), with over twenty years of work at the intersection of clinical practice, contemplative training and educational programme design. She founded Befriend Your Mind Education UK to bring her international programme work into UK secondary schools — combining clinical depth with a structured, evidence-informed approach to socio-emotional learning.
Her background is clinical before it is educational. Training in psychotherapy and craniosacral therapy gave her a direct understanding of how the nervous system responds to stress, how the body holds attention, and what it genuinely takes to build capacity for presence and emotional balance. This is not peripheral to her programmes — it is what makes them work. The P.E.A.C.E.® Programme is not a relaxation add-on, but a genuine framework for developing socio-emotional capacities in children, young people and the educators who teach them.
Since 2015, P.E.A.C.E.® has grown into the most widely implemented mindfulness-based programme in French-speaking schools — 950+ schools, 85,000+ young people, more than 30 active trainers and 650+ educators trained across Europe. Candice also co-developed WISE UP through the EU Erasmus+ programme with 12 partners across 6 countries, now launching in the UK as WISEWAYS. She is the author of two books on mindfulness with young people, creator of the P.E.A.C.E.® Card Game (5 languages), and has spoken at the United Nations and alongside Matthieu Ricard and Steven Laureys.
Full biography, publications and speaking engagements: candicemarro.com