About HeartTouch Wellbeing CIC
Our Purpose
HeartTouch Wellbeing CIC is a Community Interest Company dedicated to developing and sharing practical approaches that support wellbeing, resilience and human connection.
At the heart of our work is embodied mindfulness: a way of practising, relating and being that helps people reconnect with themselves, with others and with the communities around them.
Rather than viewing mindfulness simply as a mental exercise, we understand it as a quality of awareness that involves the whole person: body, mind, emotions and relationships.
We believe this embodied approach helps people develop greater resilience by supporting the body's natural capacity to find its way back towards balance when life becomes challenging.
Our Current Focus
Our work supports wellbeing across a growing range of individual, community and organisational settings.
An important focus remains supporting people experiencing spiritual crisis, experiences commonly described as psychosis and other overwhelming inner experiences through our Weathering Storms programme.
Alongside this, HeartTouch programmes apply embodied mindfulness to areas including anxiety, emotional pain and trauma, addiction recovery, long-term health conditions, neurodivergence, returning to work and therapeutic and caring practice.
Through Resource Balance, we are also developing embodied approaches to chronic stress, burnout prevention and sustainable working life.
The Foundations of Our Work
HeartTouch Wellbeing CIC has grown from the meeting of lived experience with many contemplative and embodied traditions, including Sei-Ki and Japanese bodywork, Tai Chi and Qi Gong, alongside professional teaching and many years of working with individuals, charities and community organisations.
We believe that meaningful approaches to wellbeing emerge when these different ways of knowing are brought together with openness, compassion and continued learning.
Our work remains centred on the person rather than reducing people to diagnoses, difficulties or circumstances. We recognise that every individual's experience is unique and believe that resilience develops through understanding, embodied practice and supporting the body's natural capacity to find its way back towards balance.
How We Work
We combine embodied mindfulness practices with programmes developed for the needs of different communities and settings.
We draw on a range of complementary practices, including HeartTouch, Tai Chi and Qi Gong, recognising that different approaches may be appropriate for different people and settings.
These practices form the foundation of programmes such as Weathering Storms. This programme combines HeartTouch Embodied Mindfulness with a recovery philosophy informed by lived experience, contemplative practice and practical understanding of psychosis, spiritual crisis and other overwhelming life experiences.
As HeartTouch Wellbeing CIC grows, we hope to develop further programmes for areas such as workplace wellbeing, long-term health conditions and healthy ageing, together with welcoming community spaces such as Ki Cafés, where people can participate in activities, build relationships and simply spend time together in a supportive environment.
Looking Ahead
HeartTouch Wellbeing CIC was established to develop approaches that can benefit communities over the long term.
As the organisation grows, we will continue to expand our work through partnerships, facilitator training, educational resources, research and the development of safe community spaces where embodied mindfulness and compassionate connection can flourish.
We believe that by working together with people, communities and organisations, we can contribute to a more compassionate, resilient and connected society.
About Anthony
My name is Anthony Fidler, and I am the founder and Director of HeartTouch Wellbeing CIC.
After graduating from Cambridge University, I began my career in the software industry before experiencing a period of spiritual psychosis, or spiritual crisis, which changed the direction of my life.
Over the following decade, beginning with a year in the psychiatric system, I gradually learnt to understand and navigate these experiences through contemplative practice, embodied approaches and the support of others.
That journey led me to dedicate my life to exploring wellbeing, recovery and human development. Over the years I have studied a range of contemplative and embodied traditions while teaching Tai Chi, mindfulness, Sei-Ki and, more recently, HeartTouch in the UK and internationally.
HeartTouch has evolved through many years of practice and teaching. It is rooted in my training with my Japanese Sei-Ki teacher and continues to evolve through wider learning, lived experience and ongoing exploration.
I continue to learn through teaching, collaboration and meeting people from many different walks of life, all of which continue to shape and deepen the work I do today.