Mindfulness-Based Family Practice (MBFP)

Mindfulness-Based Family Practice (MBFP) was created out of my desire to serve those in my community after the pandemic. I often met parents who were discussing their own stress and anxiety, working to balance the increasing demands of life. But they were also sharing that their children were struggling too. The startling statistics show a growing rate of mental health issues in adulthood and childhood. This was a true before the pandemic made things worse.

But the creation of this new program really started many years ago when I was a new parent myself and started a meditation practice. I was so inspired by the way in which mindfulness meditation offered a different experience with thinking and feeling that I was interested in bringing it to my young children. That began my journey in the field of ‘professional’ mindfulness. I completed a masters degree in “Mindfulness Studies” at Lesley University in Cambridge that provided me with the neuroscience, cognitive science, and historical foundations in the ancient practice.

Now, I am a professor of mindfulness studies and contemplative scholar serving graduate students on their various pathways. I am a PhD candidate researching the ways in which silence affect the what it is we ‘know’ and how it cultivates that knowing. I continue to have strong research inclinations towards metta, compassion, and digital balance. My personal practice and scholarship relies on the fundamentals of the core concept of inquiry of ‘organic humanity.’

Mindfulness-Based Family Practice exists to serve parents and caregivers in understanding mindfulness for themselves and their families by establishing practice in the home.