Christy Cassisa
Founder and Executive Director, Institute for Mindful Works
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Christy founded The Institute for Mindful Works with the intent to provide empirically- supported trainings to help people lead happier, healthier and more productive lives. Her professional training includes science, education, and the law, but since discovering mindfulness meditation in 2011 and experiencing the transformational effects of the practice for herself, she has made it her lifework to share it with others.
As one of the founders and the current Director of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness WorkLife Integration Programs, Christy has been deeply involved in the effort to bring mindfulness to workplaces of all kinds. She has developed numerous mindfulness-based programs and workshops and has delivered programs for a wide variety of organizations, including non-profits, higher educational institutions, law firms and multi-national corporations. She has expanded her work to include a special mindfulness program for mothers, called the Resilient Mama Sangha, in which to create community and support for moms working the “Full Catastrophe” of parenting.
Christy has been trained to teach Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindful Self-Compassion through the UCSD Mindfulness Based Programs Training Institute and teaches both programs for the UCSD Center for Mindfulness. Check to see when she's teaching at the CFM HERE.
Christy’s previous professional life includes coaching and consulting, as well as time served in corporate America, higher education administration and the law. She graduated with a JD from the University of Missouri, Columbia School of Law and a BS in Life Sciences from Missouri Science & Technology, is certified to administer both the Myers Briggs Type Indicator® and the EQ-I 2.0, and is also trained as a professional coach.
As one of the founders and the current Director of the UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness WorkLife Integration Programs, Christy has been deeply involved in the effort to bring mindfulness to workplaces of all kinds. She has developed numerous mindfulness-based programs and workshops and has delivered programs for a wide variety of organizations, including non-profits, higher educational institutions, law firms and multi-national corporations. She has expanded her work to include a special mindfulness program for mothers, called the Resilient Mama Sangha, in which to create community and support for moms working the “Full Catastrophe” of parenting.
Christy has been trained to teach Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Mindful Self-Compassion through the UCSD Mindfulness Based Programs Training Institute and teaches both programs for the UCSD Center for Mindfulness. Check to see when she's teaching at the CFM HERE.
Christy’s previous professional life includes coaching and consulting, as well as time served in corporate America, higher education administration and the law. She graduated with a JD from the University of Missouri, Columbia School of Law and a BS in Life Sciences from Missouri Science & Technology, is certified to administer both the Myers Briggs Type Indicator® and the EQ-I 2.0, and is also trained as a professional coach.