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Mirjam is a Certified MSC and Certified MBSR Teacher, trained as Yoga Teacher and Certified “Awake in the Wild” Nature Meditation Teacher. MA European Business Studies and BA Development Cooperation. Intervention trainer at Social Neuroscience Lab Max Planck Society. Teacher Training in "MBST - Mindfulness-Based Sustainable Transformation" in partnership with Inner Green Deal and The Mindful Society Global Institute.  Trained in various inter-personal mindfulness formats like council, Bohm dialog, Time to Think to create safe spaces for equity and diversity. +15 years of consultancy work in international development cooperation in capacity building and evaluation, working and living on many continents. Since 2008, integrating those life-changing experiences into teaching mindfulness and compassion as socially engaged practices in a trauma-sensitive way to re-connect and inspire a mindset of openness for change. Engaged in the "Inner Development Goal" (IDG) and Deep Transformation Network circles, co-coordinating the European Grateful Living network, co-facilitating various EcoDharma initiatives, contributing to ETH Zurich's program "Regenerative Systems" and Living Systems Lab "Monviso Institute", teaching at UC Irvine and coordinating 7 years at the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, California. German, English, French, Spanish, Italian and basic Portuguese. A lover of being in the outdoors, hiking long distance, creating arts, shakuhachi and handpan, and sangha building. 

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, a 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, 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 Treleavan) and a certified mindfulness teacher by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield MMTCP and a mindfulness teachers mentor and member 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).  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 her town. 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 traditions.