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Pathways to Wellness Speakers 2025
DR ROSY DANIEL BSc, MBBCh
Integrative Medicine Cancer Consultant and Health Coach Trainer
Dr Rosy Daniel is a holistic doctor, teacher and author specialising in Integrative Cancer Care and Specialist Cancer Health Coach Training.
Between 1985 and2000 Rosy was Doctor then Medical Director of the Bristol Cancer Help Centre (now Penny Brohn Cancer Care), winning the Patronage of His Royal Highness the Price of Wales in 1997. She has authored seven books on cancer self-help including the Cancer Lifeline Kit. After leaving the Bristol Centre she set up Health Creation, offering motivational holistic health coaching training and advanced
coach training to empower and support people with cancer.
In her Integrative Medicine practice Rosy guides those with cancer into personalised positive health programmes combining the best of all worlds orthodox and complementary in highly personalised holistic healthcare.
During 2025 Rosy became Lead Author on the academic paper ‘The Case for Integration of Health Coaching within Integrative Oncology Needs, Outcomes, Models, and Standards’ (June 2015) published in Springer Current Oncology Reports in collaboration with the SIO/BSIO Special Interest Group members. This called for a major literature review based on which she and co-authors Julie Bach and Izabella Natrins have now called for inclusion of Specialist Cancer Coaches in the heart of Oncology teams.
Determined to make this a reality, Rosy is now focusing her training efforts on up-skilling health coaches with advanced coaching skills through her CPD training ‘Health Coaching for People with Cancer’. This course aims to equip the coach to help people with cancer to navigate the shock, trauma and overwhelm of a cancer diagnosis, the rigours of treatment, the confrontation with their mortality, and onwards into the great benefits of a proactive wellness journey.
The conference session Health Coaches: Vital but Missing Components in Cancer and Oncology Care
In this session, Izabella Natrins and Dr Rosy Daniel will present the case and evidence for the integration of skilled health coaches as vital components within cancer and oncology care pathways.
Based on their experience their current work, they will set the context, present the need and evidence, highlight skills gaps and propose solutions to argue that health coaching fills an important gap in oncology services and offers a scalable, cost-effective solution to improve patient outcomes across the cancer continuum. With established global standards and clear competencies, health coaching should be integrated as an essential component of cancer and oncology care services.
There will be an opportunity for open discussion and questions.
IZABELLA NATRINS BSc PSYCH, Dip NLC
UKIHCA-Registered Health Coach CEO & Health Ecosystem Growth Director, UK & International Health Coaching Association (UKIHCA)
Izabella Natrins is CEO and Health Ecosystem Growth Director (UKIHCA). With a background as a Health Research Psychologist and over 35 years in health and wellness, she brings a whole-person approach that considers the bio-psycho-emotional-social-spiritual-environmental influences on health.
Izabella is an integrative health leader, advocating for health coaching as a vital, evidence-informed tool to improve population health and is Council Member of the British Society for Integrative Oncology (BSIO) and a founder member of the BSIO/SIO Health Coaching Special Interest Group.
With lead author, Dr Rosy Daniel, Izabella co-authored a seminal paper: The Case for Integration of Health Coaching within Integrative Oncology Needs, Outcomes, Models, and Standards (June 2015) published in Springer Current Oncology Reports is leading UKIHCA’s work on Advanced Practice Standards for Health Coaching Education and Training in Cancer and Oncology Care.
Izabella is a passionate advocate for real food as foundational to wellbeing, author of THE REAL FOOD SOLUTION: A Treasury of Wisdom for Energy, Vitality and Better Health for Your and Your Planet, a professionally qualified chef, and a proud graduate of the renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland.
Her career includes senior roles with NHS England, the Department of Health and Social Care, and the University of Birmingham Medical School.
Dr Rosemary Nyabadza
GP and Integrative Health Coach
After growing up in post-colonial Zimbabwe and obtaining her degree in Western Medicine as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, Rosemary continued her education by acquiring a Master's in Public Health at the University of Manchester.
Parallel to her conventional medical path, her personal journey and its impact on her health opened the doors to her spiritual awakening and the realisation that the wisdom and guidance of practitioners from ancient and embodied traditions have indisputable value.
As a result of this insight, she has spent years immersed in self-study and deep exploration of various contemplative practices.
Rosemary has trained in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine and a Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy at Naropa University in Colorado. Both trainings are dear to her heart as they are harbingers of the start of Western Medicine formally acknowledging the importance of a whole-person approach and the profound value that lies in ancient practices, rituals and medical wisdom.
Rosemary commits herself to bridging the world of Western Medicine with Ancient wisdom and to educating people in discovering their own definition of health by finding their way back to their body and Inner-Healer.
Her health coaching work is centred around the ancient/biological need that we all have for safety and exploring with her clients what unique and multifactorial shape that safety takes in their lives. You can find her at www.thedoctorrosemary.com
She is also the founder of The HPV Hub, an educational resource for women with persistent HPV who want to be proactive in the early years of infection by supporting their immune system to have a better chance of clearing it naturally and before invasive intervention is necessary. www.thehpvhub.com
Conference Session: Safety, Adaptation, and Healing: Rethinking “Disease” as the Body’s Wisdom
What if the states we call “disease” are not failures of the body, but intelligent adaptations or protective responses to perceived threats?
In this session, Dr. Rosemary Nyabadza, a UK-based GP and integrative health practitioner, invites us to reframe our understanding of illness through the lens of the ancient/biological need for safety and the body’s innate ability to receive and respond to various types of information.
Rather than battling a “broken” body, we can identify hidden threats, create safety, and restore balance. This talk offers a compassionate, science-informed perspective on how gratitude, deep listening and strategic changes allow the body’s wisdom to guide us back to wellness.
Dawn Rothwell
Sports Therapist, Health Coach, Equine Therapist, NLP Practitioner
Dawn Rothwell has over 45 years of experience working with both people and horses, bringing together a wealth of expertise across sports therapy, health coaching, equine therapy, and NLP. Her lifelong passion for horses has shaped a professional path dedicated to exploring the profound connection between humans and animals, and how this relationship can foster growth, healing, and self-discovery.
Through her integrative approach, Dawn helps individuals build emotional intelligence, resilience, and self-awareness. She is committed to showing how the wisdom and intuitive nature of horses can guide us to deeper understanding and lasting transformation.
Her work reflects a belief that wellbeing is best supported through a blend of modern therapeutic practice and embodied, experiential learning — allowing people to reconnect with themselves in powerful and life-changing ways.
Conference Session: Insights Through Horses
Horses have an extraordinary ability to mirror human behaviour and emotions. In this session, Dawn will explore how engaging with horses can reveal hidden patterns, unlock emotional intelligence, and open pathways to healing and per
Charlie Brittain
Clinical Sports Therapist, Dancer and Emergency Medical Technician.
Charlie is a practising Clinical Sports Therapist, Movement Rehabilitator, Musculoskeletal Health Specialist and Human Biomechanics Specialist specialising in the treatment, rehabilitation and education of dancers and movement practitioners. A qualified teacher and assessor, he regularly devises, lectures and examines on higher education and professional training programmes in the U.K. and Europe.
In addition to Advanced Clinical Sports Therapy & Rehabilitation (MDip.ST, ADST), Mat-based Pilates’ Instruction (BASI MTTC) and Human Biomechanics (AiM, Pinnacle Performance) Charlie is qualified in medical acupuncture, spinal
manipulation, manual lymphatic drainage and instrument-assisted soft-tissue mobilisation. He holds a certificate in Integumentary and Musculoskeletal Anatomy (University of Michigan) and is studying for his Level 6 Diploma in Integrative Health Coaching and Nutritional Therapy (AHG). Charlie has studied under leading experts
in the fields of human movement, performance and therapy such as Gary Ward (UK), David Grey (IRE), Conor Harris (USA), Russell Maliphant (U.K.), Christian Platts (UK) and Richard Johnson (UK); he is a registered practitioner with the
Complimentary & Natural Healthcare Council (CNHCR) and a professional member of the Sports Therapy Organisation (MSTO GST) and Trauma Care.
Charlie continues to work clinically as a pre-hospital clinician in emergency and urgent care for emergency ambulance services. He holds the Diploma in Emergency and Urgent Care and a Postgraduate Diploma in Acute Medicine; he is currently completing his Master’s Degree in Acute Internal Medicine at the University of South Wales and a Bachelor’s Degree (Hons) in Remote Paramedic Practice at the College of Remote and Offshore Medicine. Charlie is registered as an Advanced Provider with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, a member of the Royal Society of Medicine and an associate of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, British Association for Immediate Care and College of Paramedics.
Alongside his commitment to healthcare and integrative practice, Charlie is a professional dancer, teacher, choreographer and rehearsal director regularly invited to perform, create and teach across a variety of artistic and educational
environments worldwide. His evolving practice is surrendered to the natural and embodied intelligences of human beings; aiming to facilitate spaces that reflect his deep respect for the body and imbue them with curiosity, courage and care.
Conference Session: Rehumanising Health, Healing and Healthcare – an embodied perspective
Through the lens of his practice in bodywork, movement rehabilitation, professional dance and emergency medical care, Charlie will reflect on his ongoing process of de-compartmentalising and integrating his experiences across these fields and what this process is revealing about the philosophy of integrative (well-)being. Examining the intersections between his clinical and artistic practices, Charlie will reflect on how embodied intelligence, relationality, connectedness and care could reveal pathways to rehumanise and revitalise our relationships to health and healing, as practitioners and patients.
Beth Tennant
Clinical Educator, Safeguarding Lead, Former Nurse
Beth Tennant brings over 30 years of experience in healthcare, sports therapy, and education. A former nurse and now Lead Tutor and Assessor with Active Health Group, she also serves as Designated Safeguarding Lead at The Monastery, Manchester.
Beth combines clinical expertise with a deep commitment to compassion, bridging the worlds of health, social care, and integrative therapies. Her work highlights the vital role of touch in holistic care and the importance of safeguarding in every setting.
Conference Session: The Power of Touch - Highlighting the need for touch in holistic care
Beth will explore the essential role of touch in health and wellbeing, highlighting its impact across clinical practice, education, and integrative therapies.