MAP Mindfulness
MAP Mindfulness offers practical, body-aware mindfulness practices for modern life. This work is grounded in the understanding that many of today’s challenges—stress, overwhelm, disconnection, and digital fatigue—are not failures of willpower, but signals from the nervous system asking for support.
Rather than offering rigid rules or idealized practices, MAP Mindfulness focuses on approachable, real-life tools that help people slow down, reconnect with their bodies, and cultivate clarity and presence amid everyday demands.
Our work meets people where they are—at home, at work, and in the midst of complex, changing lives.
Meet Our Instructors
Erin Therese Sheehan
Erin Sheehan is a mindfulness educator, professor, and doctoral researcher whose work explores embodied contemplative practices in education and everyday life. She teaches contemplative studies in graduate education and brings years of experience working with parents, educators, and professionals navigating stress, transition, and meaning-making.
Erin’s approach integrates contemplative pedagogy, embodiment, and trauma-aware educational design, with a strong emphasis on practices that are accessible, grounded, and responsive to lived experience. Her work is especially informed by the realities of modern family life and the challenges of raising children in a highly digital world.
She is currently completing her doctoral dissertation examining the lived experience of walking the labyrinth as an embodied contemplative practice in graduate education.
LESLEY UNIVERSITY
PhD Educational Studies, May 2026
LESLEY UNIVERSITY
M.A., Mindfulness Studies, 2017
Sherri Henderson
Sherri Henderson is a long-time mindfulness practitioner and educator with extensive experience teaching mindfulness to children and adults. Her work emphasizes compassion, developmental awareness, and practices that support emotional regulation and connection.
Together, Erin and Sherri bring complementary perspectives that balance educational depth with practical application—bridging insight and everyday life.
LESLEY UNIVERSITY
M.A., Mindfulness Studies, 2017
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