Agneta is a Swedish citizen who has lived in the UK since 1986.

Her passion is to design Life Skills programmes to build capacity and resilience in people where everyone, no matter the financial situation, can learn to improve their wellbeing. Agneta has developed a programme called “Brain Smart, how the brain creates your behaviour and reality”. It is a program for everyone, no matter their age or capability. She has a strong belief that in most cases to master your wellbeing you don’t need complicated information, techniques or language.

People need to be empowered with knowledge of how the brain works and skills on how to control it. This should be a human right. Empowering people with knowledge will enable them to become their own healers and improve their mental wellbeing. This Brain Smart program is being used by mental health charities and has started to be a part of the curriculum in some schools. It is also being developed for prisons.

Agneta feels that it is essential to develop partnerships and build networks of like-minded people and organizations to work together sharing knowledge and experiences. From her professional and personal experience and through her extensive travel in rural parts of Southern Africa, Agneta has come to understand that people in the global south and global north are by and large faced with the same wellbeing issues.