I'm going out today to celebrate 🎉 ☘️🥳 my dearest friend, mentor, guide and wonderous soul friend (anam cara) Ken Mellor. A man of great beauty, grace and heart. I am filled with the deepest gratitude for the many many times he said yes and turned towards me. His beautiful presence, his exquisite way with words. His deep listening and knowing...more

I had this blessing occurring to me when David Carman and I spoke of Ken’s passing. Blessings are a tradition in Ireland. I wrote this as an act of grace and love between two beings. Of the spirit and heart. A BLESSING ON YOUR DAYS   May the beauty of Life shine gently on your heart.   May the sweetness of sound sooth your mind.   May a warm embr...more

My earliest memories of Ken come from the first of a series of annual workshops Diane and I attended in Malvern, UK in the early-mid 1980’s. Two facets of Ken jump out. The first was my impression as I settled into the meditation workshop that this guy was from another planet altogether. I’m well educated and had heard of Australia, of course, but ...more

Thank you Ken for your generosity and warmth. I remember a workshop in Manchester around 16 years ago where I was acting the fool a little and you were more than a match for my sense of humour. I've listened to your meditations on countless occasions and I'm grateful for there help. Lot's of love to Elizabeth and all the family

Ken (and Elizabeth) has been one of my first spiritual teachers and his (their) teachings continue to be foundational for me. I am filled with gratitude and that gratitude fills the initial vacuum that I felt upon learning of his passing. He will continue to be with me. I have rarely met anyone that has his level of integrity, loving, caring, ge...more

May you rest in peace Ken and at the same time galavant around in the spiritual world. Your cheekiness and playfulness always in my memories ! And Thank you.... I learnt more about myself and others through Ken's teachings compared to any other times in my life. Your wisdoms will always be a part of me. Much love and compassion to Elizabeth and ...more

“It seems like you’re more in love with the idea of a relationship than you are with your partner,” said Ken. He was right and I was shocked awake. Ken's statement captured Ken’s kind of wisdom, he cut beneath things and gently saw and named the truth. I love you Ken, Elizabeth, Zoe and bless everyone in the Network.

With thoughtful husbandry you cultivate presence. Modelling an ease of being, when, being me was not easy. Thank you for welcoming me home, to Elizabeth and yours Ken, and my home in me. Love, gratitude, trust and respect eternally. Adam

It was a real pleasure knowing Ken and serving alongside him on the Meditation Australia board. He was a gentleman, warm, humble and wise. Condolences to Elizabeth and family, friends and students

I think of Ken with such gratitude and deep respect. He was a such powerful catalyst in my spiritual awakening. The silent retreats I was so fortunate to attend at Trigonos awakened, encouraged and released so profoundly. I experienced beautiful things I could never have imagined. Thank you Ken.

I have known Ken for years as a very prominent TA community name. We used to study his TA Journal published articles dedicated to the practice of psychotherapy. One day in 2010 I dared to contact him with a request for supervision - and he said "yes". I enjoyed our sessions and I learned a lot from Ken. Then on 2011 I travelled to Great Malvern to ...more

I first met Ken and Elizabeth at a 3 day therapy marathon in 1985, in Blackheath, SE London. In the evenings we had meditation initiations behind closed curtains as they were concerned about what people might think we were up to. Since being given the mantra that evening, I have been much more at peace and every time I got bored or troubled in an...more

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Isabel (Ken’s cousin and my mother) was a great friend of Ken’s and she always spoke fondly of him. They shared a lot of wonderful qualities and memories. I remember spending some time when I was an angsty teen with Ken and Elizabeth. We tried to mediate and at the time I thought it was all a bit of who-ha. They were both very kind to me. Now as ...more

I remember being with Ken in his office in Alfred Cres and he was going through the newspaper flicking the pages over as he scanned it. I said, “What are you doing?” He said, “I am looking for good news stories” and then said, “like this.” He then proceeded to read out a headline “Doctors go on strike in Israel and death rate drops.” Ken had a uni...more

Just a great THANK YOU KEN to have been such a reference in TA world and in Mindfulness Training. I had never the pleasure to meet you personally, but you'll be always a spiritual mentor in my training and experience as TA Practioner. Rest in peace.

Thank you Ken with all my heart. You have been a guide and teacher for me since my early twenties. You were always there in an audio if i needed your deep and sonorous voice to ground me. I have a deep gratitude for your teaching which has influenced my life and practice as a psychotherapist. Thank you both, Ken and Elizabeth for sharing your home...more

When I was asked to translate Ken’s workshop as he started teaching in Germany in the 1990s, I had no idea how profoundly my life would be transformed as a result. I am a happier, healthier, saner and more grounded person thanks to Ken and Elizabeth. For someone brought up in a restrictive belief system complete with hellfire and eternal damnation...more

Dear Elizabeth I’m so grateful to you and Ken. For multiple reasons, not just the wonderful introduction to meditation in 2015 or before that, via my therapist Annie, for your book on parenting. I found that book incredibly helpful in parenting two girls with an eight-year age gap. I remember so vividly Ken’s kindness to me when I attended my f...more

I never met Ken in person but I had the good fortune of being invited to be part of the online Healing Circle meditation and the online Wednesday meditations at that time. This is one lovely memory I have from January 2021 that I made a note of. Elizabeth was leading us in a practice online. She said to look around and use our senses to see, fee...more

My love to dearest Elizabeth and all Ken’s loved ones at this sad time. Ken may have been slight of frame and stature but he was giant of a human being. Wise, caring, generous and deeply spiritual, encouraging, healing, all good things way beyond even our highest of aspirations. Thank you Ken, for all you have given the world and me personally. ...more

Ken was one of the most extraordinary people I’ve met and was unconventional in his methods of helping people to live happy healthy spiritual lives. In my 37 years of knowing him he made a difference to me right up until the end of his physical life and Elizabeth continues to. He had a deep commitment to people that went beyond anything I had ever ...more

I was so lucky to meet Ken on his last stay in the UK. His open and loving energy gave me a renewed faith in life. I will always carry his presence. I am glad that I followed my impulse to sign up for a two-day meditation workshop he did a few days after I had first met him. He transformed me...painful to go from having no patience to tolerate any ...more

I met Ken (with Elizabeth) on Thursday 25 May 1989. That evening and the 4 day workshop in Malvern that followed were completely life changing for me. Having previously been extremely sceptical about anything alternative let alone meditation, I was drawn to the meditation workshop and to meet them and very quickly I realised I had found somethin...more

I love this man dearly and wholeheartedly. Ken was to me the epitome of what a human can become. He lead all things with an open heart and had mastered all of what he taught. I am sure many will agree that he was aligned with every word he spoke, actions he took and had the capability of reaching people in the deepest parts of themselves. When I fi...more

I first came across Ken in 1989. I had gone to a workshop mainly because most of friends were going and I didn't want to spend the day on my own. I was initiated by Ken and from day one used to practice meditation everyday. In 2000 I left but still kept going with the meditation. Over to past 20 years I have been completely transformed. I now have ...more

Ken helped me connect the dots between TA and spiritually. His TAJ article, Autonomy with Integrity continues to be one of my main references for personal and clients therapy. I feel blessed to have met him in person. He has left us a rich legacy in his books and articles. Rosaline, Scotland. UK

Thank you Ken for your teaching, guiding and mentoring. Thank you for your grace, your playfulness, your deep listening and loving heart as you led me and so many towards healing and connectedness in so many workshops and silent retreats. You enabled me to go deeper and more clearly on this life journey of meditation.

Beautiful tributes to a beautiful soul. Ken and Elizabeth entered my life on May 25th 1988 at a workshop in Manchester. I thought it would be a nice way to spend my mother's first birthday after her death, but it became much more than that. A transformation began then, which has continued to influence and support me through both difficult and wonde...more

Ken was a friendly, caring supportive man. I started workshops with him in the mid 80s in Manchester UK and reconnected with him in the last five years at Trigonos UK. What an experience, never to be forgotten. Lots of love to you Elizabeth and family.

Dear Ken, I have no words to express my gratitude: For you and your wonderful, unique way of connecting the human with the divine. You made it easier for me, as one of your students, to accept even difficult lessons, not only with your deep empathy and profound wisdom, but also with your very special combination of that "Ken smile" and sparklin...more

Ken Mellor, my professional/personal and spiritual mentor and father figure. I met Ken when I was about 20yrs in NZ where I attended my first ever meditation session. It was so profound that boy did it arouse my curiosity. I moved to Melbourne in 1986 and became progressively more involved over the years. Training groups, workshops and living in ...more

When I first met Ken (early 1980s), I was bowled over by his radiant presence. I wanted to spend as much time as possible with him. I even managed to tag along to an interview he was giving for Radio New Zealand, where I was currently working. The radio interview and article in the NZ Listener explored the empathy and sensitivity he had developed f...more

Ken Mellor was my teacher and shaped my psychological and spiritual outlook. I first met Ken in the early 1990s when I joined a group in Bristol. I met his voice first of all - the serious and sonorous voice on the recorded meditations. I think they must have been on cassette at that point! Then he would come over on his European tours (later accom...more

I met Ken in 1996. I saw him across the room and it was like I had always known him. Through Ken I experienced being seen, met and known for the first time in my life. Through Ken, I got to experience LOVE . During a workshop he put his hand on his heart and just looked at me. Pure love through direct transmission awoke me to my life. Over more tha...more

Remembering Ken and his calm and soothing presence, his warm gaze and his voice. I have such love and gratitude for the help and comfort both he and Elizabeth brought to me in difficult and confusing times. Always calm and clear and down to earth. And when I couldn't sleep his Relaxation Meditation always worked like magic.! Thank you Ken, and tha...more

I must have been 2 or 3 when I met Ken, so his and Elizabeth’s teachings have touched me deeply. They helped instil care for the world, for all people, for all beings, to have purpose and pursue the endless journey of awakening. What I really appreciate about you Ken though was your interest and attention that you gave to me. I returned it with che...more

One of the highlights for us volunteers in the UK (in the days before everything went online) was the annual arrival of Ken’s newsletters. Reams of them would arrive, ready for us to fold and put into pre-addressed envelopes. It was always an exciting moment because we loved finding out about Ken and Elizabeth’s news and of all the latest developme...more

I remember going to one workshop with Ken and Elizabeth one afternoon, ready for lots of sublime meditations. However, on this particular afternoon, they devoted quite some time to talking very passionately about the concept and practice of tough love. It was a very transformative moment for me both as a parent and as a schoolteacher. (They would ...more

I have known Ken Mellor for 34 years and in all that time he has been the most amazing friend, teacher and mentor; he has supported me in all aspects of my life throughout that time in a way which has enabled me to grow and flourish. I have acquired skills through all he and Elizabeth have taught that have enabled me to make life decisions that hav...more

I first meditated with Ken in Bristol in 1997, and said I'd been given a gift. I visited Ken and Elizabeth in 2000 and remember watching "The Bill" and having my best night's sleep, for a long time, in their home. Thank you Ken for your wisdom, wit and groundedness. Some of your permissions still echo in my mind becoming part of my nurturing paren...more

I've loved seeing all these pictures of Ken from past workshops! I first met Ken and Elizabeth in the late 1990s and then at the wonderful Millenial Transition workshop in Stroud. I was in awe of them! Over the years I came to love them both and learn a huge amount from them - and I can safely say that the Grounding Meditation is the best, most us...more

To Ken There are love dogs no one knows the names of. Give your life to be one of them -Rumi Ken was an important person in my life as I grappled with waves of suffering. For me he was a finger pointing to the moon – a teacher leading from darkness to light. He knew, he had experienced, he had presence born of th...more

Such wonderful and warm memories of Ken and Elizabeth when they visited the Netherlands. Their workshop had a profound impact on me. The connection was instant, and I am grateful for knowing you both, Ken’s warmth, wisdom, compassion, and the way he was able to reach me in the core of my being, together with Elizabeth. The laughter too, the joy of...more

Dear Ken, remembering you as teacher, guide, friend with so many beautiful encounters going back to 1980s when we were both still involved in TA. Then all the very special Malvern meetings and lastly, our most recent visit to you and Elizabeth in Melbourne. What a joy. Thank you for all you brought into the world and into my life.

I am full of gratitude for all that you contributed to the TA world. In particular your re-visioning of the Cathexis concepts was hugely enriching, as well as your ideas about impasses and second order structure ... and so much more. Recently you have transformed so many lives with your integration of a spiritual life into our work. You will be ...more

I've shared so much laughter with Ken, both in workshops and when I stayed with him and Elizabeth. I've gained so much wisdom from him. We didn't agree about everything - my experience was different from his in many respects and I never did manage to fit myself into the doughnut diagram - but it didn't matter. I felt respected by him and what I lea...more

Although physically distant from Ken and Elizabeth for some time, you are both within me every day of my life. During a time of personal crisis, my meeting Ken some 40 years ago, transformed who I am and changed my life forever. Ken’s impact on me was profound. Love, energy, groundedness, tranquility, complete transparency, clarity, all became...more

In 1995 I was visiting friends in Melbourne and planned to visit Ken and Elizabeth for a couple of days at the end at Kens invitation during a meditation workshop at The Berne Institute where I was a TA trainee. As is sometimes the case my plans were disrupted and I found myself on Melbourne central station with a suitcase and nowhere to go. I cal...more

I have loved reading the contributions everyone has made and have delighted in the photos. I first met Ken in the mid 1970s at an intensive TA group training in Wellington. Although nearly 50 years ago I still remember the huge impact his teaching and presence had on me. That was a turning point in my life. Without Ken’s encouragement I doubt I wo...more

When I was young and lost, living in the valley of shadows and death (As we all do, knowingly or unknowingly) I wandered through life with a constant presence of meaninglessness. Despair never seemed far away, lurking in the shadows of my mind It was during this time, in the midst of desolation that I met Ken, a guiding light that would lead me ou...more

There is so much I want to say about Ken, as both he and Elizabeth first opened up my world a long time ago when we first met, though I hadn’t realised it for a while. I will really miss his voice, hugs, humour, and just being in his presence. There is a first-nations saying from North America – “There is no death, only a change of worlds”. ...more

Thank you Ken. And thank you Elizabeth. Thank you everyone for this beautiful gallery which is a part of my life.

Dear Ken It has taken me a little while to write this and to process that you are no longer physically with us, indeed I am still processing. Ken you are like a father to me. A very kind, empathetic, loving, funny and wise father - who has helped guide and support me through my adult life. The impact your loving guidance and counsel has ha...more