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Mindful Educating
Groups & Classes

“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”

-Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Please contact me for information on current offerings and/or you are interested in having me facilitate these courses for your organization.

Professional Trainings

Foundations of Applied Mindfulness Meditation Certificate at The University of Toronto: Please click here for more information

Trauma-Informed Mindful Movement course at The University of Toronto: Please click here for more information

100 hr. Trauma Informed Practice: on and off the mat: Please click here for more information

Deeper Mindfulness: A New Way to Discover Calm in a Chaotic World

(8-weeks)

Starting in December 2025

Deeper Mindfulness delves into the moment-by-moment experience of what feels pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral - the often-overlooked aspect of mindfulness—feeling tone.

Through the application of the latest neuroscience and traditional meditative practices, participants learn to observe feeling tone in real-time, gaining insight into how it shapes emotional responses and daily experiences, and discover ways to reduce stress and cultivate emotional balance.

While each person's experience is unique, the published research has shown changes like these are common.

Deepen your existing mindfulness practice by tuning into the subtle experience of feeling tone.
Gain tools to break cycles of stress, exhaustion, and emotional reactivity.
Learn to navigate difficult emotions with greater ease and wisdom.
Cultivate a sense of presence and appreciation for everyday life, even in challenging moments.
Strengthen emotional resilience through practical, science-backed techniques.

The course is open those who have completed MBSR, MBCT, Mindfulness for Life, or another 8-week course, such as Mindfulness-Based College (MB-College), modeled after MBSR or MBCT.

Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well-Being Groups (8-weeks)

Starting in September 2025

Mindful Eating: Awareness and Well-Being is an 8-week journey into eating with kindness, awareness, and non-judgment. Through mindfulness-based practices, you'll learn to bring attention to your eating habits, explore your relationship with food, and cultivate gratitude and self-care.

Practices to increase one’s ability to notice and respond to body sensations will be offered each week and students will be invited to practice in between sessions. The role of your automatic pilot, the importance of “Vitamin T” (Time), and how to skillfully respond rather than react to internal and external stimuli will be explored.

Course Outline

Orientation:

Welcome and introductions
Introduction to mindfulness
Course logistics and expectations
Potential benefits and challenges

Week 1:

Introduction to mindfulness-based eating for health and well-being
Intention / aspiration setting
Mindful eating activity
Orienting and grounding practice
Loving-kindness meditation

Week 2:

What is nourishment?
Role of the nervous system
Multi-tasking and eating (automaticity-automatic pilot)
Orienting and grounding practice
3-step breathing space
Loving-kindness meditation

Week 3:

Exploring the seven types of hunger (Dr. Chozen-Bays)
The role of mindful movement and feeling tones
3-step breathing space
Self-compassion practice

Week 4:

Role of interoception: hunger / fullness scale
What is satiety?
3-step breathing space
Self-Compassion practice

Week 5:

Gratitude body scan
Self-stewardship
3-step breathing space
Appreciative joy practice

Week 6:

The slow down diet / Vitamin T (time)
3-step breathing space
Appreciative joy practice

All-Day:

In-depth day of practice
Cultivate mindfulness techniques more deeply

Week 7:

Explore the role of nourishment in our homes and culture
Gratitude body scan
3-step breathing space
Equanimity practice

Week 8:

Using what we have learned
Gratitude body scan
3-step breathing space
Equanimity practice
Next steps

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) (8-weeks)

Please contact Sarah for next session dates

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) is a 8-week evidence-based group therapy program (including an orientation session), which has been shown to reduce the impacts associated with depression, anxiety, and stress.

Mindfulness is a non-judgmental way of paying attention to the present moment with compassion. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) is designed to bring awareness to the habitual ways of being that can lead to depressive and anxious spirals.

MBCT combines the skills of CBT and mindfulness-based practices, helping participants learn how to respond in more skillful ways to increase well-being and decrease suffering.

Who May Benefit from Attending?