Profile

Gwenola has been teaching MBSR since 2009, pioneering this program to French-speaking Europe. As a certified MBSR teacher and certified MBSR trainer (CFM-UMass Med), she trains MBSR teachers at the Institut Pleine Conscience that she founded and manages. In addition, she supervises MBSR and MBCT teachers. She also contributes to the training of mindfulness teachers in several training programs in Europe (Bangor, ...) and in the USA (UCSD). Willing to support the best practices in teaching and to support the local practitioners and teachers, she brings experts from various countries to offer seminars and retreats in Belgium.

With her colleagues, she offers mindfulness programs to various publics (large public; companies; non-profit organisations; health-care and school contexts). Deeply curious about life, Gwenola studied psychology and was trained as a scientific researcher and as a psychotherapist for many years. Encountering mindfulness in 2003 was a turning point. She has been committed to the art of both her own daily practice and the teaching of mindfulness for several years now, as well as to the study of the roots of these practices in the early Buddhist teachings, to deepen her own journey, in the service of others.