A bit about Jean: Jean Leonard, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist and dharma teacher in private practice in Louisville, Colorado, USA. She has practiced vipassana meditation since 2003 and teaches mindfulness classes and mentors mindfulness teachers in training through Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program. She has been mentored to teach in the Insight tradition by James Baraz, and her teaching style is influenced by James, Jack and Tara, Gil Fronsdal, and Thanissara & Kittisaro. She is trained as a Buddhist Eco-Chaplain and a board member of the Rocky Mountain EcoDharma Retreat Center and has a particular interest in offering emotional and spiritual support to individuals and communities impacted by the environmental and ecological crises of our times, and practice related to aging, illness and dying.