Owner, instructor, and consultant

With over 30 years experience in Healthcare and Human Service from front line service in acute adult mental health, adolescent trauma, psychosocial oncology to the C-suite in Ethics and Spiritual Care, Dawn holds certification as a trainer and a teacher of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) from the University of Massachusetts Medical School, the birthplace of MBSR. As someone familiar with the striving of being a healthcare provider, she sought out Dr. Kristin Neff in 2010 and she and her husband were part of the original cohort of trained teachers in Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) and one of the first to pilot MSC in healthcare. Her commitment to excellence took her to Stanford University where she completed Compassion Cultivation Training. A natural leader, she was invited by Janice Marturano, Founder, Institute for Mindful Leadership to be a senior instructor. Committed to awakening more and more to anti-oppressive ways of being, Dawn is a social worker learning and unlearning the ways colonization has perpetuated harm and is investigating the ways mindfulness practice can inspire a more just and loving world. She is currently working with Dr. Michael Yellow Bird at the University of Manitoba to establish a Center for Mindful Decolonization and Reconciliation.