The essence is awareness and love.

- Florence Meleo-Meyer

Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, LMFT has been a student and practitioner of meditation and contemplative practices for more than 50 years. Over decades, she has taught Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and trained MBSR teachers and teacher-trainers worldwide through the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, and the Mindfulness Center, School of Public Health, Brown University.  Florence encourages cultivation of the deepest understanding of MBSR as a path of love, healing and transformation. She is a leading contributor to the development of materials and best practices for teacher training in the field of MBSR and Mindfulness-Based Programs (MBPs).  She currently supports the developing work of the Global Mindfulness Collaborative, a network of MBSR teacher training institutes, world-wide.

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From a panel on “Hustle & Grind Culture” at Omega Institute, Summer 2024

  • "Florence brings deep commitment, compassion, and humor to her work. She is inspired to offer her service in alignment with the vision of ..."An Awake and Compassionate World."

    - Sounds True

  • "What I enjoyed the most about the IPM learning journey has very much to do with the awareness and compassion being shared by Florence and the group in generel. I felt safe and this made it possible for me to actually open to both listen, share and learn. And this created a foundation for the practice to weave its way even more into an integration in my daily life. To me this is what mindfulness is all about. Taking our individual practice to a more relational level."

    J.B., Interpersonal Mindfulness Student

  • "Learning from Florence is a true gift. Her kindness makes you feel welcomed and seen, her sense of humor makes you laugh and her embodiment of mindfulness sets a great example to follow. Her skillful approach to teaching quickly created a safe and trusting learning environment which resulted in the students and her forming a loving community. It is a beautiful way to learn and I feel lucky to have been a part of it."

    Interpersonal Mindfulness Student

  • "A teacher deeply embodied in the practice who conveys the wisdom of mindfulness with kindness and love."

    Interpersonal Mindfulness Student