Mindfulness for Organizations
For organizations, interconnection and group identity are emphasized through mindful communication and interactive activities offered alongside individual mindfulness practices.
Staff Support
Businesses and non-profits are starting to recognize the benefits of mindfulness for their employees. Whether you're looking for a one-time training or an ongoing series of mindfulness sessions, Kate offers experiential practices that emphasize wellness, mitigate burnout, and help build group connection. Kate has offered staff mindfulness to The People Concern, the municipal employees of Culver City, CA, through and Project Marigold, and for staff and volunteers of POPS Clubs.
School Programs
As a former classroom teacher, Kate understands the many pressures school communities face. Mindfulness can be of great benefit to students and teachers at any age or career stage. As a graduate of Mindful Schools yearlong Mindful Teacher training, Kate is trained in age-appropriate, trauma-informed, and diversity-conscious curriculum. Contact Kate for consulting, single sessions, or comprehensive school-based mindfulness programs using internationally-recognized best practices.
Current and recent school clients include Network Charter School in Eugene, Oregon, Al Kennedy School in Saginaw, OR, The Creswell OR School District, Lane Community College in Eugene, OR, Brentwood School, Center for Early Education, Loreto School, and New Roads School, all in Los Angeles, CA, as well as the Culver City School District, and Pico Rivera School District in California through Insight in Schools.
Clinical Settings
Mindful approaches to mental and physical healthcare supports the work you do and provides calm comfort to staff, patients and their families. Healthcare workers who practice mindfulness experience less burnout and greater resiliency. Mindfulness offers clients tools for mitigating the stress of healing. Kate's training and experience includes skillfully offering mindfulness to those with brain differences, mental illness, and those suffering from trauma. Former clients include Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital, Safe Place for Youth, NAMI (National Alliance for Mental Illness), Rapaport Dermatology, and others.
Testimonials
“Kate works closely with POPS, offering not only guidance and understanding to young people with loved ones in prison, but opening the hearts and minds of our leadership team. Kate created our mindfulness curriculum, and the accompanying training manual evidences her profound gifts as a writer, teacher and artist. Each time she runs a workshop with our volunteers, she transforms lives. Kate Savage heals and invigorates."
— Amy Friedman, Founder POPS Clubs
“I love joining Kate’s morning mindfulness. It provides me with a great start to my workday and a breather, midweek. Carrying on with awareness of mind and body is so meaningful. Kate’s energy is an amazing guidance in this practice.”
— Karen I., Facilities Manager, Brentwood School, Los Angeles
“Ms. Savage, with her knowledge of mindfulness, was a great teacher.”