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12-Minute Meditation: A Guided Practice to Cultivate Kinder Self-Talk
When we notice our inner voice, and notice when we’re focusing on negative thoughts, we can cultivate a habit of self-compassion.
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Adam Ortman is the Mindfulness Director at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Austin, as well as a consulting teacher with the Mindfulness Directors Initiative and the Rio Grande Mindfulness Institute.
Adam works to support people in developing deeper well-being, emotional flexibility, and embodied presence. In addition to his work teaching mindfulness meditation to students, parents, and teachers, he helps to plant transformative systems in schools and workplaces across the country. He offers one-on-one mindfulness coaching, as well as mindfulness consultations for families and workplaces.
Adam has been a mindfulness and meditation teacher for people of all ages for over a decade. He received a Masters of Divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School for which he focused on secular applications of meditative traditions, and has spent over a year in intensive meditation retreats. He has supported a number of schools in the creation and strengthening of their mindfulness programs, has led workshops and retreats around the US for educators seeking to incorporate mindfulness into their communities, and was a core consultant in the creation of WholeSchool Mindfulness.
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