Mindfulness for Educators, Parents  & Teens

“The more familiar we are with our inner terrain, the more surefooted our teaching- and  living- becomes”
-Parker Palmer, The Courage to Teach

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Empowering teachers and students with mindfulness practices that cultivate emotional regulation, attention, and inner-calm. 

Having spent most of my adult life as a teacher both in the US and abroad, I have come to understand the profession as one steeped in caring, generosity, and the love of learning and students. Yet, in the current climate of high stakes testing and the many demands of today's classroom, the world of both teacher and student has  become a space suffused with stress, anxiety, and burnout.

Too often, we jump to help others without having taken the time to care for ourselves. With mindfulness, we turn inwards and practice self-care in ways that enables us to extend care to others. We are nourished, renewed, and inspired to do the work we were meant to do in this life. 
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Cultivating skills such as present-moment non-judgmental awareness, kindness towards self and others, and being with things as they are unfolding allows teachers to find the presence and well-being to take care of themselves, their students, their families, and their communities. Educators become the models of the values they wish to encourage in their students. When teachers practice mindfulness, their students win...in fact the whole community wins. 

Mindfulness practices helped me find the balance and peace I was looking for as a teacher.Sharing these practices with my students helped them find a new way of seeing themselves and their world.

For more information, please see the pages below:

Mindfulness for Educators

Mindful Parenting

Mindfulness for Teens

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 Recent and Upcoming work with
Educators & Schools
Workshops and Projects


  • Trauma Healing Classrooms                   D'Ippolito Elementary School                          Vineland, NJ                               Daylong workshop               
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  • Trauma-Sensitive Schools: A Mindful Approach                  
  • Union High School, NJ             


  • Instructor in the Mindfulness for Educators M.Ed. and Certificate Programs at Antioch University's Graduate School of Education                                                          
 
  • The Inner Strength Program                                       for Teens                                                                                                                                                 Philadelphia, PA                                                           
 
  • Mindfulness for Educators               PD Workshop,                                Union High School, Union, NJ,                                      
 
  • Mindful Parenting 8 Week Course                                             LMT Community Center          
 
  • Mindfulness Teacher Training SEL, Mindfulness, the MindUp Curriculum, & Mindful Parenting Fountain Land Training School, Kunming, China                    
 
  • SEL & Mindfulness Conference, Guest speaker and lecturer for over 800 educators and parents in Kunming, China                       
 
  • Self-Care for Educators Workshop                              Ridgefield High School       Ridgewood, NJ                      
 
  • An Introduction to Mindfulness for Educators Workshop  Kawameeh Middle School           
 
  • 8-Week Mindfulness for Educators Trainings in NJ and Pennsylvania Spring & Summer 
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  • Taught the research based mindfulness curriculum Learning to Breathe (learning2breathe.org) to teens  in New Jersey and Pennsylvania 
My goal is to share practices and principles of mindfulness that sustain, nourish, and renew educators and students. I work to help teachers and students find ways to manage stress, nurture balance, and grow compassion.

With mindfulness we create the holding space for our students to become the great thinkers, movers, and leaders they long to be. 

May teachers be happy, balanced, and aware
May students be happy, balanced, and aware
May our communities be happy, balanced and aware

If you are interested in bringing mindfulness to your school or community,
please explore the programs I offer to educators, schools, and teens by clicking on the links below:
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