Our mission
To share the most powerful evidence-based wellbeing information with people throughout the community, to inspire and empower them to make informed decisions about their own physical and mental wellbeing in a holistic way.
Our vision
A society where everyone can enjoy physical and mental health to their full potential, where wellbeing is valued and can be integrated into communities through collective action and collaboration, bringing about wellbeing for positive social change.
Lotus Community Wellbeing Trust, Board of Trustees
Hannah Airey - Chair
Hannah’s passion is wellbeing and sharing valuable tools with individuals, groups and organisations. She has over 13 years experience in developing and facilitating workshops aimed to increase mental wellness combining evidence based principles of positive psychology, Five Ways to Wellbeing, laughter wellness, relaxation and breathing techniques. Her style is professional, innovative, dynamic and engaging making her workshops memorable and life changing.
Hannah has seen the effect these tools have on people, “It’s that ‘Aha’ moment – the moment the light is turned on in someone’s eyes and they begin to shine, that gives me the reason to do what I do. It’s everyone’s birth right to be happy. I feel by sharing these tools, I can help in some way. That’s my purpose in life and the reason behind setting up this Trust.”
She is also Director of Workplace Wellbeing and has worked professionally in a myriad of companies throughout London, Melbourne, Brisbane and New Zealand as a contractor to many private and public corporations. She has a wealth of experience gained whilst working within Human Resources departments as well as developing, implementing and training staff.
For almost a decade, Hannah co-owned and managed some of NZ’s top hospitality businesses in Christchurch as well as working in USA, as a personal manager to a wealthy businessman. Within these businesses Hannah managed teams of staff, co-ordinated corporate events and functions as well as developing and implementing front of house and office systems.
She has a Diploma in Anatomy and Physiology, and has worked in a number of holistic modalities and knows well the holistic model of needing the mind, body and soul to be in balance to enable true well ’being’. Hannah has also worked in Australia and NZ as a professional model/actor and has highly developed skills in presenting and performance.
In her spare time Hannah loves to spend time with her two kids, surfing, practicing yoga, cooking, walking and tinkering on the guitar.
Hannah Airey - Chair
Hannah’s passion is wellbeing and sharing valuable tools with individuals, groups and organisations. She has over 13 years experience in developing and facilitating workshops aimed to increase mental wellness combining evidence based principles of positive psychology, Five Ways to Wellbeing, laughter wellness, relaxation and breathing techniques. Her style is professional, innovative, dynamic and engaging making her workshops memorable and life changing.
Hannah has seen the effect these tools have on people, “It’s that ‘Aha’ moment – the moment the light is turned on in someone’s eyes and they begin to shine, that gives me the reason to do what I do. It’s everyone’s birth right to be happy. I feel by sharing these tools, I can help in some way. That’s my purpose in life and the reason behind setting up this Trust.”
She is also Director of Workplace Wellbeing and has worked professionally in a myriad of companies throughout London, Melbourne, Brisbane and New Zealand as a contractor to many private and public corporations. She has a wealth of experience gained whilst working within Human Resources departments as well as developing, implementing and training staff.
For almost a decade, Hannah co-owned and managed some of NZ’s top hospitality businesses in Christchurch as well as working in USA, as a personal manager to a wealthy businessman. Within these businesses Hannah managed teams of staff, co-ordinated corporate events and functions as well as developing and implementing front of house and office systems.
She has a Diploma in Anatomy and Physiology, and has worked in a number of holistic modalities and knows well the holistic model of needing the mind, body and soul to be in balance to enable true well ’being’. Hannah has also worked in Australia and NZ as a professional model/actor and has highly developed skills in presenting and performance.
In her spare time Hannah loves to spend time with her two kids, surfing, practicing yoga, cooking, walking and tinkering on the guitar.
Stephen Murray – Treasurer
Stephen Murray is a fully qualified Chartered Accountant gaining his professional qualifications in the UK in 1982. He immigrated to New Zealand in 2000 and since then has chosen to use his expertise in the Tourism Industry. He has been the financial manager of Christchurch’s Willowbank Wildlife Reserve for 11 years as well as representing several individual private clients. Stephen, contrary to the norm, loves working with animals and children, so is appropriately employed and is constantly astonished at the diversity of skills he is required to perform in his role at Willowbank.
He has been a long serving Board member in the not for profit sector including acting as a parent representative on his daughter’s school Board of Trustees.
Stephen is a single father with one child. In his leisure time he enjoys creating adventures with his daughter, cooking and baking and has a great love of all things sporty.
Stephen Murray is a fully qualified Chartered Accountant gaining his professional qualifications in the UK in 1982. He immigrated to New Zealand in 2000 and since then has chosen to use his expertise in the Tourism Industry. He has been the financial manager of Christchurch’s Willowbank Wildlife Reserve for 11 years as well as representing several individual private clients. Stephen, contrary to the norm, loves working with animals and children, so is appropriately employed and is constantly astonished at the diversity of skills he is required to perform in his role at Willowbank.
He has been a long serving Board member in the not for profit sector including acting as a parent representative on his daughter’s school Board of Trustees.
Stephen is a single father with one child. In his leisure time he enjoys creating adventures with his daughter, cooking and baking and has a great love of all things sporty.
Shauna McClelland – Secretary
Shauna McClelland is an experienced lawyer who was admitted to the Bar in 1995. She commenced general practice with Joynt Andrews Barristers and Solicitors where she represented clients in relation to employment, family and commercial law matters.
She specialised in employment law in 1999 and has assisted predominantly employer clients in all areas of employment law including Collective and multi-employer collective bargaining, strikes, independent investigations, redundancy and restructuring, personal grievances, human rights and privacy issues. She has appeared in the Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court, District Court and High Court. Shauna regularly represents clients in Mediation.
Shauna has practiced law in a corporate environment, as a Director of a law firm and is now thriving in practice on her own account. She has been a long serving Board member in the not for profit sector.
Shauna is married with two children. In her leisure time she enjoys time with her family, landscape photography and reading.
Shauna McClelland is an experienced lawyer who was admitted to the Bar in 1995. She commenced general practice with Joynt Andrews Barristers and Solicitors where she represented clients in relation to employment, family and commercial law matters.
She specialised in employment law in 1999 and has assisted predominantly employer clients in all areas of employment law including Collective and multi-employer collective bargaining, strikes, independent investigations, redundancy and restructuring, personal grievances, human rights and privacy issues. She has appeared in the Employment Relations Authority, Employment Court, District Court and High Court. Shauna regularly represents clients in Mediation.
Shauna has practiced law in a corporate environment, as a Director of a law firm and is now thriving in practice on her own account. She has been a long serving Board member in the not for profit sector.
Shauna is married with two children. In her leisure time she enjoys time with her family, landscape photography and reading.
