Inken Dechow

Inken Dechow is a mindfulness and compassion teacher based in France. She has taught mindfulness- and compassion-based programs in French, German and English since 2014. Before this work she was an engineer in environmental sustainability, and she holds that sustainability starts within the human mind. She is committed to supporting the development of mindfulness and compassion in all fields of society.

She is a certified MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) teacher and a certified MSC (Mindful Self-Compassion) teacher. She is also a SIT-Mindfulness teacher and an MSC trainer in France and in Germany.

Inken teaches with Dominique Retoux through the training programs of Pleinement Conscient.e. These include the eight-week MBSR program, Mindful Self-Compassion in several formats, the Interpersonal Mindfulness Program based on Dialogue Conscient, and Éveiller la Joie, based on James Baraz's Awakening Joy program, for which she is a certified teacher. Together these programs address stress, harshness toward oneself, difficulty staying present and kind in relationships, and the cultivation of joy.