My Services
Mindful Education
Since 2005 mounting research has been focused on the feasibility and impact of bringing Mindful
practices into the classroom. A range of benefits for students and teachers alike are consistently being
reported by these studies including improvements in attention, academic skills, social skills, emotional
regulation, and self-esteem for student participants. Teacher participants report many benefits as well,
including improved sense of well-being, increased sense of control in the classroom and decreased
burnout, to name a few. This training introduces participants to current research, strategies and
experiential opportunities for bringing Mindful practices into the classroom, the home, and into the lives
of anyone hoping to be a more positive influence on a child's life.
Mindful Coupling
Mindful Coupling is an eight-week workshop that focuses on skill building founded in Mindful practices.
Participants will have a chance to learn and practice skills that have been proven highly successful in
helping people manage relationships and stress related to daily life. This workshop is not couples'
counseling however participants will have the opportunity to develop insights and skills that have the
power to enrich the overall quality of their intimate relationships.
Mindful Based Stress Reduction
Based on Curriculum developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Becoming aware of and living in the present moment is a lifelong practice that has enormous benefits for
physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Mindfulness practices are ancient ways that are increasingly
being used in the health professions for pain management, stress reduction and depression relapse
prevention. In this workshop, participants learn to practice mindfulness in many forms including both
formal and informal meditation practices.
Mindful Self-Compassion
Based on Curriculum developed by Kristin Neff, Ph.D. and Christopher Germer, Ph.D
Mindful Self-Compassion is an eight-week training program based on the groundbreaking research of
Kristin Neff, PhD and clinical contributions of Christopher Germer, PhD. MSC supports the development
of courageous attitudes enabling us to stand up to harm, even the harm we may inflict unwittingly on
ourselves, through self-criticism, self-isolation or self-absorption. MSC training teaches cores skills that
empower participants to respond to life's difficult moments, with kindness, care and understanding,
allowing difficult emotions to be handled with greater acceptance and ease.