Karen is passionate about bringing mindfulness into the world and draws on her long experience with people in the corporate, small business and not-for-profit sectors in her MBSR teaching. She brings vitality, curiosity and caring to her classes and has the skills to enthuse and support people in their mindfulness training, having trained with the Mindfulness Training Institute and being strongly grounded in her own practice. She is a strong advocate for mindfulness in schools having qualified to teach two internationally recognised programs: MiSP .B and Mindful Schools. She has presented at the Positive Schools Conference, volunteers with zero2hero to bring the benefits of mindfulness to young people, has been engaged by Mindful Meditation Australia to contribute to writing the framework for the mindfulness component of their whole school approach to mindfulness and represents Smiling Mind for Schools in WA.