Your teachers

Miriam is a Certified MSC and Certified MBSR Teacher, trained as a Yoga Teacher and Certified “Awake in the Wild” Nature Meditation Teacher. She continuously explores Council Practice, Insight dialog and other contemplative dialog forms of Interpersonal Mindfulness and “Time to Think”, as a means to invite equity and build bridges in midst of diversity. Prior to teaching mindfulness-based formats, Mirjam worked for more than 15 years in consultancy work in development cooperation as a project manager and consultant for capacity building and evaluation of policies, programmes and projects for education, human rights, health and environmental projects, working and living on many continents. The last 15 years, she is integrating these experiences into teaching mindfulness and compassion
as a socially engaged practice, including all voices to better understand the collective roots of what is "not yet good". Mirjam speaks German, English, French, Spanish, Italian and basic Portuguese. A lover of being in the outdoors, arts, dance, shakuhachi and handpane, deep listening and sangha building. Being a mom of three wonderful teens is grace and practice path.

Lotta is a trained Mindful Self-Compassion teacher, a certified embodied emotional intelligence coach, and a provider of Tension & Trauma Release Exercise (TRE). She is engaged in the global movement of Inner Development Goals (IDGs), linking inner growth to sustainable development. Lotta is Swedish but grew up in East Africa and has since then lived and worked in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, Tanzania and Thailand. Lotta works as a coach, facilitator and trainer, using embodied emotional intelligence and facilitation to transform and unleash the full potential of individuals, groups and organisations. To facilitate conversations and reflections together with others, she uses Liberating Structures and her own “toolbox” put together over many years of working with inner and outer change and transformation. She is fascinated by neuroscience and how we can make our nervous system work with us instead of against us. She loves growing vegetables and flowers, exploring new places on foot and hunting for scrapped treasures at flea markets.

Galia, PsyD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, practicing for over thirty years. She maintains a private practice in upper Galilee, Israel, specializing in mind-body-spirit psychotherapy. Galia is also a certified focusing-oriented therapist, mindfulness, and a certified self-compassion teacher in the Mindful Self-Compassion program. She is the program developer and former director of the Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy Certificate Program (SCIP) at the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion. Galia has pioneered mindful self-compassion in Israel, mentoring Hebrew-speaking MSC teachers. She is responsible for the MSC program and its various translations to Hebrew in I Israel, as well as representing her country in the MSC Europe Council.   She created a bilingual MSC course for Arabs and Jews titled Planting Seeds of Compassion. She is a trauma-sensitive practitioner (advanced TSM with David Trelevan). Galia is a certified mindfulness teacher by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield MMTCP continuous and a mindfulness teachers mentor and part of the cloud sangha. Galia translated, scientifically edited, and narrated the meditation for the book “Sitting Still Like a Frog” by Eline Snell (mindfulness for children and adolescents). She contributed a chapter on self-compassion in psychotherapy in a book about mind-body-spirit psychotherapy. She contributed a chapter about the mindful lens: practicing mindfulness and self-compassion through taking photos as a way of building resilience during COVID-19. Galia is an artist who draws her inspiration from the diversity of connections. With her local community, she creates cultural festivals based on the generosity, togetherness, free will, spirit, and talent of citizens living in Kiryat-Tivon. She tries to give the place in which she lives a sense of united, loving community, including all people near and far using earth-honoring tradition. Galia has co-created with Mirjam in 2023 the “IDG Empathy and Compassion Hub”.