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Feel free to contact me at 778-829-8959, lu@lulam.ca, to find out more about how Mindfulness Consulting Services from an embodied anti-oppression and trauma informed approach can benefit the employees and/or the clients of your organization.
I am based in Vancouver, BC.
Mindfulness Consulting Services
I believe if we can heal our minds, we can heal our worlds. I am a skilled Educator and Trainer, with 23 years of anti-oppression experience in front line counselling, group facilitation, program design and curriculum development serving marginalized communities in educational, community health and social service settings. My mindfulness work is compassion driven, trauma informed, and honours the lived realities of our intersecting social locations.
I design and deliver clinical mindfulness based trainings and workshops for mental and primary health, social service and educational institutions.
Sample Training for Counsellors, Educators, and Service Providers
Sample Groups and Workshops for Service Users
My Teaching Approach
I teach tools that can be directly applied to work contexts of learners through mindfulness based experiential learning. I have developed an embodied anti-oppression way of teaching that integrates current research, evidence based practices, lived experiences of community members and mindfulness. I model a warm and non-judgmental learning environment that draws from 23 years of anti-oppression practice and 13 years of daily mindfulness practice. I am dedicated to decolonizing mainstream mental health approaches in my work.
Mindfulness Works
Mindfulness is a state of awareness, a way of paying attention to our direct experience (physical sensations, feelings, thoughts) as it is happening with an attitude of kindness and curiosity. By changing the way we experience where and how we focus our attention, we change the way our mind works. This is very helpful when our mind works in ways that no longer serves us. I have chosen to centralize my facilitation work in the area of mindfulness because mindfulness works.
Research has identified that mindfulness is beneficial as it:
I take up the cultivation of mindfulness practices as a powerful tool anyone has capacity to access.
Through mindfulness practices, we realize there are choices in arenas we have been previously unaware of. This is why I find mindfulness approaches so empowering. I am happy to tailor mindfulness groups, trainings and workshop to your needs. Do not hesitate to contact me to find out what services and rates I can offer you.
I am based in Vancouver, BC.
Mindfulness Consulting Services
I believe if we can heal our minds, we can heal our worlds. I am a skilled Educator and Trainer, with 23 years of anti-oppression experience in front line counselling, group facilitation, program design and curriculum development serving marginalized communities in educational, community health and social service settings. My mindfulness work is compassion driven, trauma informed, and honours the lived realities of our intersecting social locations.
I design and deliver clinical mindfulness based trainings and workshops for mental and primary health, social service and educational institutions.
Sample Training for Counsellors, Educators, and Service Providers
- Freedom From Separation: Communities of Belonging, Closing Keynote Speaker, SOGI 2022 Conference w/ ARC Foundation
- Nurturing Wholeness: A Mindfulness Perspective on Trauma and Resilience, Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
- Diverse Gender Identity Awareness: A Mindfulness Approach, Canada Mental Health Association
- Mindfulness as Social Justice Practice, Canada University Queer Services Conference
- Attention: Burnout's Hazards, Handle with Care, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University and CUPE 3903 Free School
- Centering Wholeness with Mindfulness: An Embodied Anti-Oppression Teaching Model for Inclusivity and
Intersectionality in Trans Health Education, In Development
Sample Groups and Workshops for Service Users
- Uncovering Brilliance, Transforming Racism: 8 Week Mindfulness Group, Trans Care BC
- Riding the Waves of Overwhelm: 9 Week Mindfulness Group, Six Degrees Health Centre
- Compassionate Listening for Social Change Makers, Centre for Women and Trans People York University
- Re-defining Self-Care as Community Care with Mindfulness, Supporting Our Youth, Sherbourne Health Centre
My Teaching Approach
I teach tools that can be directly applied to work contexts of learners through mindfulness based experiential learning. I have developed an embodied anti-oppression way of teaching that integrates current research, evidence based practices, lived experiences of community members and mindfulness. I model a warm and non-judgmental learning environment that draws from 23 years of anti-oppression practice and 13 years of daily mindfulness practice. I am dedicated to decolonizing mainstream mental health approaches in my work.
Mindfulness Works
Mindfulness is a state of awareness, a way of paying attention to our direct experience (physical sensations, feelings, thoughts) as it is happening with an attitude of kindness and curiosity. By changing the way we experience where and how we focus our attention, we change the way our mind works. This is very helpful when our mind works in ways that no longer serves us. I have chosen to centralize my facilitation work in the area of mindfulness because mindfulness works.
Research has identified that mindfulness is beneficial as it:
- reduces stress
- boosts working memory
- increases focus of attention
- reduces distraction
- reduces rumination
- decreases anxiety and relapsing of
depression - lessens emotional reactivity
- increases relationship
satisfaction
- increase in immune functioning
- improvement to well-being
- reduction in psychological distress
I take up the cultivation of mindfulness practices as a powerful tool anyone has capacity to access.
Through mindfulness practices, we realize there are choices in arenas we have been previously unaware of. This is why I find mindfulness approaches so empowering. I am happy to tailor mindfulness groups, trainings and workshop to your needs. Do not hesitate to contact me to find out what services and rates I can offer you.