A poet, attorney, and environmental advocate, Elizabeth J. Coleman has taught mindful meditation and mindfulness for over fifteen years. She gives credit to MBSR and mindfulness for her decision to become a late-career poet. Elizabeth is the editor of HERE: Poems for the Planet (Copper Canyon Press, 2019), has written two poetry collections, published by Spuyten Duyvil Press (PROOF and THE FIFTH GENERATION), and translated Lee Slonimsky’s sonnet collection PYTHAGORE, AMOUREUX into French, (Folded Word Press, 2016). She received an MFA from the Vermont College of Arts in 2012.

Elizabeth has taught the eight-week MBSR class and mindful meditation in group settings and privately for over fifteen years. She has also designed and led many shorter programs for educational institutions, bar associations, law firms, businesses, nonprofits and others. She practiced law for over thirty years, specializing in law in the public interest, and has served as an executive at several organizations. Elizabeth participated in the seven-day professional training program, modeled on the Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School under the direction of Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn and Dr. Saki Santorell. She completed the sixty-hour Practicum in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Professionals at the Jefferson-Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine.

She has worked with attorneys and many others to address issues of anxiety in making presentations or performing in various settings, and taught day-long sessions on mindfulness and creativity at the Manhattan Jewish Community Center. An amateur guitarist, Elizabeth is a long-time member of the New York Classical Guitar Society, and performs the guitar regularly at the Memorial Sloane Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan and New Jersey, and through the New York Bar Association Chamber Music Association.

For more information about Elizabeth’s mindfulness teaching, please see:

www.mindfulnessmeditation.live