Paulette Grotrian, M.A., has practiced Insight Meditation since the mid 1990’s after reading Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness, where he describes the effects of chronic stress and the program he developed called Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). Paulette has been teaching mindfulness mediation since 2007 and MBSR since completing the teacher training in 2011 at the Center for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, founded by Jon Kabat Zinn. She is registered with U/Mass as an instructor for Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction.
Currently, she teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Ann Arbor and Chelsea, Mi., and in Fort Myers during the winter. She leads Days of Mindfulness (one-day retreats) throughout the country.
She has studied with Jon Kabat-Zinn at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and with Jack Kornfield at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Additionally, she studied healing trauma with mindfulness with Bessel Van der Kolk at Kripalu Center in Massachusetts and walking the labyrinth as a tool for stress in turbulent times with labyrinth guru Lauren Artress. Last summer she attended the Mindfulness Retreat for Educators with internationally-known teacher Thich Nhat Hanh as part of his North American tour. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield, and Thich Nhat Hanh are her mentors and benefactors.
Additionally, Paulette is Professor Emeritus of Interpersonal Communication at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, retiring after thirty years of full-time teaching and six years of serving as Department Chair. She continues to teach Family Communication online, a course which she developed for the college and designed for teaching as distance learning.
“Through thick and through thin,” Paulette says, “meditation has kept me sane and probably saved my life.”
She is a wife and mother and has two fun-loving Havanese dogs.
Currently, she teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction in Ann Arbor and Chelsea, Mi., and in Fort Myers during the winter. She leads Days of Mindfulness (one-day retreats) throughout the country.
She has studied with Jon Kabat-Zinn at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies and with Jack Kornfield at Spirit Rock Meditation Center. Additionally, she studied healing trauma with mindfulness with Bessel Van der Kolk at Kripalu Center in Massachusetts and walking the labyrinth as a tool for stress in turbulent times with labyrinth guru Lauren Artress. Last summer she attended the Mindfulness Retreat for Educators with internationally-known teacher Thich Nhat Hanh as part of his North American tour. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jack Kornfield, and Thich Nhat Hanh are her mentors and benefactors.
Additionally, Paulette is Professor Emeritus of Interpersonal Communication at Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, retiring after thirty years of full-time teaching and six years of serving as Department Chair. She continues to teach Family Communication online, a course which she developed for the college and designed for teaching as distance learning.
“Through thick and through thin,” Paulette says, “meditation has kept me sane and probably saved my life.”
She is a wife and mother and has two fun-loving Havanese dogs.