Founder

A certified professional mindfulness teacher  (CMT-P) through the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, Stacey has worked as a mindfulness specialist for a Philadelphia public school, for a Philadelphia private special education school and for a grant-funded project focused on ameliorating punitive practices in Chester Upland School District. Her mindfulness work is featured in the documentary film “Divided Attention: When the Children Who Need the Most Receive the Least”.  

Stacey interweaves best practices from her diverse training in curriculums such as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) through Myrna Brind’s Center for Mindfulness, The Still Quiet Place with Dr. Amy Saltzman, Mindful Education with Daniel Rechtschaffen, Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness with David Treleaven and Prison Mindfulness Institute. She is a certified Trauma-Competent Professional through Lakeside Global Institute. Previously, Stacey spent 15 years teaching grades K-8 in CA, NJ and PA, as well as four years as a literacy and classroom culture instructional coach for Children’s Literacy Initiative.  She is credentialed to teach elementary school and 7-12 English, holds a Master’s degree in Social Foundations of Education from California State University and a BFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Stacey volunteers as a mindfulness instructor for incarcerated youth and women, as a prison monitor for PA Prison Society and as a pardon coach for Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity.  Stacey wrote the Afterword entitled “Rage from the Mindful Moment Room” about her experiences teaching mindfulness to youth for the book Lost Voices of Prisoners Serving Death by Incarceration in Pennsylvania. She serves on the Board of Directors for CMP Radio Foundation and the International Mindfulness Teachers Association. Stacey enjoys creating “Keep Open” boxes as an artistic and practical expression of mindfulness, is a Level Reiki II practitioner and has trained in medicinal essential oils use.