Cynthia Garner

Cynthia Garner is a certified mindfulness meditation instructor and school leadership consultant. In 2017, she left the classroom after 7 years of teaching, and navigated deep grief and loss, both professionally and personally.

This time included moral outrage at the harm being perpetuated within education, illness and physical injury, and mental illness in my family, all while single-parenting a toddler. She then enrolled in numerous graduate counseling courses, a 2-year somatic psychotherapy program, and professional training in a wide variety of clinically-proven mindfulness-based interventions, including Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).

She also participated in the year-long Mindful Schools Teacher Certification Program and their School-wide Implementation Program, and completed the Inward Bound Mindfulness Education teacher training.