"Mindfulness matters more than you think, more than you could possibly think." Jon Kabat-Zinn
Paulette is a Board Member of the Ann Arbor Center for Mindfulness, Ann Arbor, Michigan. She is a Certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher and experienced Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher and is the co-founder of the weekly drop-in session online Open Mindfulness Meditation.
Currently, she teaches the Short Course in Mindful Self-Compassion (SC-MSC) online, leads meditations for Open Mindfulness Meditation, and leads a weekly mindfulness community January through April in Bonita Springs, Florida, where she resides during the winter.
Her main teachers are Jon Kabat-Zinn, developer of MBSR at UMass Medical School,
Kristen Neff and Chris Germer, developers of MSC at UCSD Medical School,
Jack Kornfield, co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, The Mindfulness Retreat for Educators, Ontario.
She has been practicing mindfulness meditation for over 20 years, starting in the mid 1990’s after reading Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, where he describes the effects of chronic stress and the program he developed called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). She says her practice has helped her with better focus, a healthier way to relate to what's difficult, more joy in everyday living, and developing deeper understanding, compassion, and kindness for herself and her fellow human beings.
Additional studies include:
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven,
Say What You Mean, Oren Sofer,
Trauma-Informed Mindfulness and Compassion with Trish Magyari,
Mindfulness and the Craving Mind with Judson Brewer of UMass Department of Mindfulness,
Healing Trauma with Mindfulness and Yoga with Bessel van der Kolk at Kripalu,
Walking the Labyrinth as a Tool for Stress in Turbulent Times with Lauren Artress,
Hardwiring Happiness with Neuroscientist Rick Hanson,
Refining Inquiry with Susan Woods, Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Toronto,
Interpersonal Mindfulness, Grand Rapids Center for Mindfulness,
Insight Dialogue, Gregory Kramer,
Mindfulness and the Twelve Steps with Therese Jacobs-Stewart, Hazelden,
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Mindfulness, Richard Sears, PESI,
Core Skills of Mindful Self-Compassion with Chris Germer, Kripalu,
Mindful Communication: Compassion, Connection, Understanding with Oren Sofer, and
Radical Acceptance: Healing and Freeing Our Hearts with Tara Brach, Kripalu.
Paulette is Professor Emeritus of Interpersonal Communication at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan, retiring after thirty years of full-time teaching and six years of serving as Humanities Department Chair. She continues to teach Family Communication online, a course which she developed for the college and designed for teaching as distance learning.
She is a grandmother and has a fun-loving Havanese dog, Ginger!
Follow her on Facebook at Mindfulness with Paulette.
Currently, she teaches the Short Course in Mindful Self-Compassion (SC-MSC) online, leads meditations for Open Mindfulness Meditation, and leads a weekly mindfulness community January through April in Bonita Springs, Florida, where she resides during the winter.
Her main teachers are Jon Kabat-Zinn, developer of MBSR at UMass Medical School,
Kristen Neff and Chris Germer, developers of MSC at UCSD Medical School,
Jack Kornfield, co-founder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center, and
Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, The Mindfulness Retreat for Educators, Ontario.
She has been practicing mindfulness meditation for over 20 years, starting in the mid 1990’s after reading Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, where he describes the effects of chronic stress and the program he developed called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). She says her practice has helped her with better focus, a healthier way to relate to what's difficult, more joy in everyday living, and developing deeper understanding, compassion, and kindness for herself and her fellow human beings.
Additional studies include:
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven,
Say What You Mean, Oren Sofer,
Trauma-Informed Mindfulness and Compassion with Trish Magyari,
Mindfulness and the Craving Mind with Judson Brewer of UMass Department of Mindfulness,
Healing Trauma with Mindfulness and Yoga with Bessel van der Kolk at Kripalu,
Walking the Labyrinth as a Tool for Stress in Turbulent Times with Lauren Artress,
Hardwiring Happiness with Neuroscientist Rick Hanson,
Refining Inquiry with Susan Woods, Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Toronto,
Interpersonal Mindfulness, Grand Rapids Center for Mindfulness,
Insight Dialogue, Gregory Kramer,
Mindfulness and the Twelve Steps with Therese Jacobs-Stewart, Hazelden,
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy & Mindfulness, Richard Sears, PESI,
Core Skills of Mindful Self-Compassion with Chris Germer, Kripalu,
Mindful Communication: Compassion, Connection, Understanding with Oren Sofer, and
Radical Acceptance: Healing and Freeing Our Hearts with Tara Brach, Kripalu.
Paulette is Professor Emeritus of Interpersonal Communication at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan, retiring after thirty years of full-time teaching and six years of serving as Humanities Department Chair. She continues to teach Family Communication online, a course which she developed for the college and designed for teaching as distance learning.
She is a grandmother and has a fun-loving Havanese dog, Ginger!
Follow her on Facebook at Mindfulness with Paulette.