About Peace at Work and the Author - Stuart Mackay

Stuart Mackay, the author of the Peace at Work technique has dedicated his life helping and supporting top business leaders, carers and individuals release stress and tension from their lives.

Stuart Mackay has been practicing and teaching stress release through meditation both in Australia and internationally for 27 years. He is the author of several popular publications including the Peace at Work technique. Through his practical self-help programs since the early eighties, Stuart has helped and supported thousands of people still their minds and consequently, live calmer, clearer and healthier lives.

How it started

Two and a half decades ago, Stuart viewed meditation with extreme skepticism. As the owner of a thriving manufacturing business, he was typically consumed by stress.

In 1979 Stuart fired an employee whom he incorrectly perceived to be slow and unproductive. When the employee returned to collect his termination payment, he told Stuart that he had completed all allocated tasks effectively and efficiently.

He pointed out that although other employees had managed to create an impression of 'busy-ness' and apparent productivity, they had actually been less efficient and had made costly errors. Their constant, though not necessarily productive activity had simply been in tune with Stuart's stressed state. Stuart was aware that the former employee meditated and casually questioned him about it.

The man replied "it's like having a window in your mind, through which you perceive life. Each time you meditate you are cleaning the window. After a while you begin to see life more clearly." He suggested that Stuart could learn to meditate and it was at this point that Stuart's life changed.

Not long after, Stuart gave away his seven-year-old business to his staff and began a journey to quieten his mind and focus his life. He discovered that most existing tools were unnecessarily complex and shrouded in doctrine.

Stuart began to devote his energies to producing a tool for meditation that is simple, practical and free of religion, personality and doctrine. Two years later in the USA, Stuart published 'Access Track' - a comprehensive audio course on how to meditate easily and effectively. He later developed the Peace at Work accelerated stress release program for use by business and individuals to help them become calm, clear and focused when they most need to be.

Over the last 27 years, Stuart has traveled and presented stress release as a tool for successful personal and business relations in Hong Kong, New York, Chicago, London, Auckland and Sydney. At a community level, Stuart has worked in hospitals, colleges and healing retreats. He has conducted a private practice in Sydney, Australia since 1985.