At the Bach Centre we work as a Team. There are only three of us now so although we have our specific roles we also share many of the responsibilities and support each other. You may therefore find one or all of us greeting visitors at the door or helping in the shop or cooking and serving coffees and lunches in our café, Nora’s Kitchen – and sometimes might seem to be in all three places at once!
Sam Howard
Sam joined the Bach Centre Team in 2015 after completing a qualification in motor mechanics. He is key in the management of the Bach Centre administrations, receiving all the email enquiries that come into the Centre each day and does an impressive job of answering them promptly! Since Stefan Ball’s retirement in 2024 Sam has taken on the role of principal Education Programme Manager, liaising with and supporting trainers, mentors, practitioners and students, and maintains the Centre’s educational programme standards which echo Dr. Bach’s message of simplicity.
Outside work Sam is a prolific golfer with an ever decreasing handicap, and an accomplished snowboarder. He will turn his hand to anything that interests him and his passion for music has led him to become a talented lyricist and guitar player. A born explorer, Sam and his partner Zoe have been on many adventures together; from campervanning around New Zealand to a crazy European race across Europe. And whenever the opportunity arises, Sam will either grab his bike or his snowboard and head for the mountains.
Zoe Pybus
Zoe has been part of the Bach Centre Team since 2018 and handles the online orders which are received from all corners of the world. So when a remedy or a book or a set of remedies arrives in Australia or Thailand or China or Brazil or the USA, or anywhere else, it has been picked and packed with care by Zoe. Zoe also deals with practitioner registrations and renewals and is chief baker and expert barista in Nora’s Kitchen. Her cheerful welcome that greets visitors of both the Mount Vernon house and the Café is always appreciated, as are her delicious brownies and flapjacks!
Zoe has a great love for all animals – dogs and horses in particular – and before joining the Bach Centre in 2018 she worked as a veterinary nurse. She cares for three family horses including her own pony Cash, who she rides whenever she can. She is also a keen and proficient hockey player, runner and snowboarder, and enjoys travelling, especially when the destination involves a music festival – and she and Sam have several festivals marked on their calendar each year!
Judy Ramsell Howard
Judy joined the Centre in 1985 to work with her father John Ramsell and aunt Nickie Murray. Through them, she learned all aspects of the work. When Nickie retired in 1988 Judy and her father ran the Centre together until her father retired. In 1991 Judy started the Bach Centre’s education programme, running one-day seminars and then practitioner courses. Stefan Ball joined the team in 1996 and together Judy and Stefan developed the structure of the education programme. Judy has written several books on the remedies including Bach Flower Remedies Step by Step, Bach Flower Remedies for Women, and Growing Up with Bach Flower Remedies. In recent years, she has established the museum rooms at the Bach Centre, curating an archival journey through the Bach Centre’s past. The heritage of Dr. Bach’s discovery, which he completed when he lived at Mount Vernon, was a legacy left to his colleagues Nora Weeks and Victor Bullen whom he asked that his work should remain intact in its full simplicity. In turn Nora passed this promise on to John and Nickie to uphold, and it is a legacy we too are privileged to preserve. This legacy is the Bach Centre’s whole reason for being.
Prior to joining the Centre Judy had a career in nursing, midwifery and health visiting. She has a BA Honours degree in Complementary Therapies and a First Class Honours in Fine Art. Judy has been involved in various sporting activities in the past including racewalking in which she has competed internationally as part of the British Masters team. She has also completed various long distance triathlons, marathons, cycle events and sea swims. She is a keen artist and likes to take her sketchbook wherever she goes.
Stefan Ball (retired)
Stefan was invited to join the Bach Centre Team in 1996, and retired in October 2024. He was a dedicated and crucial member of the Bach Centre Team, having taken on the administration of the education programme. He was key in the organisational processes which maintain the standards of practising Bach Foundation Registered Practitioners and Trainers. When Stefan retired, he passed this responsibility to Sam who now heads the administration of the programme. Although Stefan himself is retired, his books, including The Bach Flower Remedies Workbook will have a permanent place on our bookshelves.
Fay Howard
Fay joined the Bach Centre team after graduating in 2018 with a BA Honours degree in Journalism. She set up and now maintains our Instagram pages @thebachcentre & @thebachcentrecafe.
Fay filmed and edited the videos for the Bach Centre’s Level 2 & 3 Distance Learning Programmes. In 2019, she and Judy designed our new café, Nora’s Kitchen, named after Dr Bach’s assistant and successor, Nora Weeks.
Fay has described her happy place as exploring the globe, and she and her fiancé, George, and their two young children have recently embarked on a new family life in New Zealand.
George Annice
George joined the Bach Centre in 2018 after gaining a Bsc Honours degree in Business and Marketing, and built and maintained the website.
He shares the enjoyment of travelling with Fay, and will begin a new career as they build their future life in New Zealand.
Keith Howard
For many years in the 1980s and 1990s Keith Howard – Judy’s husband – was the main remedy maker at the Centre, having been trained to do this by Judy and her father, John Ramsell. As a keen environmentalist, he built the nature pond near the seminar room and is involved in planning and overseeing conservation work in the garden, as well as helping out with a variety of other projects.
Now semi-retired, Keith can enjoy more rounds of golf and making music for his record label Sticky Doughnut Records.
Bach Centre Trainers
Angela Davies
Angela studied the remedies at the Centre in 1995, and two years later came back to start her teacher-training, qualifying in 1998.
Since then she has taught the system in the UK, France, Greece and India, where she is the main trainer working to bring Bach Centre-approved Level 1, 2 and 3 courses to the sub-continent.
Angela’s work has included local practitioner support in the UK, where her experiences with a peer-support group in Kent led to the creation of Bach Centre guidelines on best practice in this area. She currently teaches the Bach Centre’s Level 1 and Level 2 courses at Mount Vernon, as well as her own programmes around the south-east of England, and in 2019 became a trainer of trainers.
Lynn Macwhinnie
Lynn was an early recruit to the Bach Centre’s education effort, helping design – and delivering – the first international Bach Centre-approved courses in the early 1990s.
In 1997 she created the Centre’s first teacher-training course, the Bach Foundation Teachers Programme, and she has taught Level 3 at Mount Vernon from 2000 to the present.
Lynn has spoken and taught on the remedies in many countries, including Europe, the Middle East, Australia and New Zealand, North America, Singapore and China. She is an organization consultant, executive coach and mentor with an international reputation, and is author of Emotional Wisdom with Bach Flower Remedies.
Patricia Campbell-Parker
Patricia became interested in Dr Bach’s work a few years after qualifying as a Registered Nurse in 1982, during a stint in the airline industry.
In 1992 she came to the Bach Centre to train as a practitioner, joining the Register a year later; and in 1997 she took her first steps to becoming a licensed trainer by attending one of the first Bach Foundation Teachers Programme courses.
As well as teaching Level 1 and 2 courses for the Bach Centre, Patricia runs her own natural health practice from London. She has taught the remedies up to Level 3 as far away as Russia and Zambia, and is an engaging and skilled communicator on the system. In 2019 she became a trainer of trainers.
Tessa Jordan
Tessa has been a registered practitioner since 1992 and started delivering Bach Centre-approved courses in 1997. Since then she has taught all three Levels both in the UK and overseas, including trips to Finland, Romania, Serbia and Singapore.
As a homeopath herself, Tessa designed and delivered her own Bach Centre-approved course especially for homeopaths. She has also developed courses aimed at training future trainers, including the BFTP3 course that she delivers at the Bach Centre. She runs her own practice in Suffolk.
The worldwide team
The people named above help out regularly at the Centre itself. But since 1991 we have been registering practitioners all over the world who are committed to working with Dr Bach’s system in the way he wanted, with the emphasis on simplicity and self-help.
Many of them have also became trainers, teaching Bach Centre-approved courses in their own countries, but working to our standards.
Every Bach Foundation Registered Practitioner (BFRP) and every licensed trainer is a member of our team. So if you can’t get to Mount Vernon you can still get help and advice on – and learn – the system from somebody who works the same way we do.