Education

EdD, Adult Learning and Leadership, Columbia University Teachers College - 2002
MS, Dance/Movement Therapy, City University of New York, Hunter College – 1982
BFA, Dance Department, Temple University – 1977
Certified Kinetic Awareness™ Teacher – 2001
American Dance Therapy Association, Board Certified Dance/Movement Therapist (BC-DMT 338)
New York State Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT), License #000796

Focus and Interests

• Inclusion, diversity, and equity in the teaching and practice of mindfulness

• Bodymind and dance/movement pathways to awareness

• Intercultural education and training

Bio

Meg is a licensed dance/movement therapist who studied and began teaching Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) at the original Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, Massachusetts under the supervision of Saki Santorelli, Jon Kabat-Zinn.

Introduced and taught MBSR to patients of the Spencer Cox Center for Health at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York, as well as to home-bound elderly there and, in 2001, to UN peacekeepers in Kosovo.

As a clinician, developed support groups and programs for women affected by domestic violence. Worked as a dance-movement therapist in psychiatric facilities, medical settings, and in private practice. Currently adjunct faculty in the dance/movement therapy Masters program at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA.