Retreat Facilitator:
Trudy Goodman, Ed.M

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Trudy Goodman, Ed.M

For 30 years, Trudy Goodman has trained and taught extensively in two fields: mindfulness and psychotherapy. She taught mindfulness with Jon Kabat-Zinn in the early days of the MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) clinic at University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester. Trudy co-founded, and is the Guiding Teacher for the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, teaching mindfulness meditation and Buddhist psychology for clinical practice at conferences and workshops nationwide (including the October 2007 UCLA and May 2008 Harvard Medical School conferences on Mindfulness and Psychotherapy). In 2002, Trudy founded InsightLA, www.insightla.org, a non-profit organization dedicated to mindfulness education from 'cradle to grave'. Trudy teaches awareness and compassion practices locally through programs at InsightLA and at USC, UCLA, LMU, CHLA and a variety of community settings. With Jack Kornfield and others, Trudy teaches residential meditation retreats worldwide. She co-founded Growing Spirit, a family mindfulness program, in 2004.

Retreat Director

Catherine Klatzker

RN, Clinical Nurse III, Pediatric ICU, CCRN

Catherine Klatzker began the Mindfulness retreats for caregivers coping with deaths in October of 2004 at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. She is a Pediatric Intensive Care nurse and Chair of the PICU Family Centered Care Committee. She has had a mindfulness meditation practice since 2000, studying with the same teacher in Santa Monica. Catherine has participated in many silent retreats with various teachers in California and New Mexico. The Caregiver One-Day Retreat is a direct offspring of Joan Halifax Roshi?s eight-day Being With Dying Training at Upaya in Santa Fe. Catherine is presently conducting research on the effectiveness of Mindfulness meditation in reducing compassion fatigue in professional caregivers of critically ill and dying patients. Related work in the interim includes a Creative Solutions poster presentation at the 2006 AACN NTI Conference in Anaheim, California; an article in November, 2006, American Nurse Today; and a presentation at the Los Angeles Chapter of the Society of Pediatric Nurses Third Annual Conference in February 2008.