Senior Certified Teacher, MBSR
MBSR Teacher-Trainer
MARGARET teaches MBSR and offers an array of mindfulness-based programs in workplaces and community settings.
She was trained by senior teachers at the Center for Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts Medical school to facilitate the various educational pathways of the Center including the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic and the complete set of MBSR teacher-trainings through to teacher certification. She brings over two decades of experience in corporate, small business and non-profit settings to her teaching and training.
Prior to her work at the Center for Mindfulness, Margaret was guiding teacher for White Mountain Sangha, a non-dual meditation community in NH. She is a founding member of the NH Professional Mindfulness Community.
MARGARET OFFERS...
MBSR and mindfulness-based programs, in person and via live online teaching
Teacher education, including introductory training programs, live online mentorship and teacher program completion
Consultation in teacher education for growing mindfulness centers
Mindfulness workshops and retreats
FOCUS AND INTERESTS
The study of competency in teaching MBSR and mindfulness-based programs
Training of teachers and trainers
Mindfulness as personal/professional/organizational ethos
PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Senior Certified Teacher, Teacher-Trainer, University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness, 2015-2019
International Study Workgroup on Mindfulness-Based Interventions Teaching Assessment Criteria, 2018-2019
Adjunct faculty, Lesley University Masters Program in Mindfulness Studies, 2019-present
MBSR Teacher, Concord Hospital, NH 2009 – 2015
Adjunct Faculty, New Hampshire Technical Institute, 2013 – 2014
Co-founder & Guiding Teacher, White Mountain Sangha, NH, 2006 – 2015
COMMITTEES
Advisory Board, Anticancer Lifestyle Foundation, 2015 – Present
NH Professional Mindfulness Community, founding member, 2012-2015
Capital Area Wellness Coalition, Lead Administrator, 2012-2015
EDUCATION
MA, Mindfulness Studies, Lesley University
BA, Dartmouth College
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Margaret Fletcher and Rebecca Eldridge are great friends and the co-founders of East Coast Mindfulness, where they offer teaching and professional training. Click here to find out more!
Are you ready to drop into the present moment? Margaret Fletcher offers you this set of everyday,
real-life meditations. Engage with the very stuff of your moments and days by following her meditation-in-life instructions, giving yourself the chance to slow down, pay attention and come alive.
With depth, softness, and a one step at a time approach, Margaret Fletcher has revealed a pathway into the immediacy and heart of what it means to be human. I have known Margaret for a long time so I can say with great respect and admiration: This is a perfectly “Margaret book.” But it could have been otherwise. The fact that it is not otherwise speaks directly to Margaret’s, “orientation to awakeness” and the embodied wisdom she has transmitted to us. Inviting us to walk with her for a time, Live well….Love well…Be well are her closing words in this little book filled with boundless wisdom and heart-throbbing kindness.
–Saki F. Santorelli
Author: Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine
This delightful book provides a friendly and accessible introduction to mindfulness. Margaret is a clear, down-to-earth, and compassionate guide to simple ways we can all learn to be more present and awake in our own lives.
–Meg Cadoux Hirshberg
President, Anticancer Lifestyle Foundation
The essence of Margaret Fletcher’s incredible Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course and it fits in your pocket! There’s nothing like it out there!
–John Warner