I dream of a world where we are all free, and I want to meet you in this place.

For me, freedom means the ability to know and move toward experiences that nurture joy, aliveness, and pleasure—and to move away from what suffocates our spirits. Freedom means living into our gifts and soul’s deepest longing—in other words, accessing our power. Freedom also means being available for the deep pleasure that comes when we join with others to co-create the world we want to see.

Hi, I’m Caitlin.

My work is grounded in mindfuless. I came to meditation at a time when I was deeply disconnected from my body. Mindfulness and the Dharma have taught me to meet myself exactly as I am, with love and compassion—and I’ve found that this loving attention can transform pain. My practice is rooted in the Vipassana and Plum Village traditions. My most influential teachers have been Amita Schmidt, Bonnie Duran, Jessica Morey, and Zac Ispa Landa. I’ve been practicing for over 15 years and teaching for five, and I’m certified to teach through Inward Bound, where I sometimes teach.

My work is also shaped by the feminine mystery tradition. In my early forties, I experienced a loss that sent me into a deep depression. What I was yearning for was to know and live out my soul’s deepest calling. The feminine mystery tradition places the body at the center of our awakening—our physicality not as something to overcome, but as a map of our desire for the world we long for. I have studied women’s mystery traditions in my own ancestral Celtic tradition, where I’ve been exploring practices of ancestral connection, pleasure, and desire .

I also hold a deep commitment to turning personal liberation into co-creating the world we long for. My offerings are often framed through “The Work That Reconnects,” a way to transmute the pain of living in this time of ecosystem collapse into energy to care for the Great Turning.

I’m also a university professor, where I’ve cut my teeth on participatory action and co-creation across diversity—alongside students, research teams, and community partnerships. One of my greatest pleasures is witnessing the power that emerges when people come together out of mutual respect, care, and love for this world. At the university, I have supported hundreds of future social workers in nurturing mindfulness, nonviolent communication, The Work That Reconnects, co-creation, and sharing power across identities.

Oppression lives in the body. So can liberation. I love nurturing spaces where new ways of being become possible.

Caitlin has a rare gift for nurturing change in others; never by pushing, but by creating a space where growth feels safe, natural, and deeply supported. Her presence alone invites transformation. Being with her feels like being accompanied by someone who truly sees you, holds you steady, and walks beside you with compassion and wisdom. In healing work, she is both anchor and guide: gentle yet powerful, intuitive yet practical. You leave her presence feeling more connected to yourself, more resourced, and quietly confident that real change is unfolding. Time with her feels like a remembering of your own wisdom, your own rhythm, your own capacity to become. 

--Sarah, nurse practitioner

Experience & Trainings Include:

Current & Ongoing:

  • Committed student of emergence, mystery, and cyclical becoming

  • Ongoing personal and professional study in animist practice, ancestral reclamation, and women’s mystery traditions

  • Mentorship in earth-based meditation and decolonial spiritual traditions

  • Frequent wanderer in the woods, moon-gazer, and lake swimmer

Selected Trainings & Certifications:

  • Ph.D. in Social Work, University of Chicago (trauma, resilience, and youth wellbeing)

  • Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (Massachusetts)

  • Certified Mindfulness Teacher (Inward Bound Mindfulness + Mindfulness Institute for Emerging Adults)

  • Over 50 nights of silent meditation retreat in vipassana lineages

  • Nonviolent Communication Foundations + Decolonizing NVC (Meenadchi & Oren Jay Sofer)

  • Somatic Abolitionism Foundations (with Resmaa Menakem)

  • Roots Deeper Than Whiteness + Waking Up to Whiteness (ancestry and racial justice lineage work)

  • Participatory Action Researcher (practitioner and teacher) with a love for collective knowledge-making

  • Creator and facilitator of an engaged mindfulness curriculum for social workers inspired by Joanna Macy’s Work That Reconnects

  • Grateful recipient of insight through altered states of consciousness and sacred medicine work

  • Dancer, mother, soul-friend, and celebrant of what brings us alive

Gratitudes

My own emerging is deeply interconnected with support I have received along my path. I honor the lineage of mindfulness teachers who have given their lives to pass on the practice across hundreds of years. I am in gratitude to my mentors along the path: Bonnie Duran, Michou Olivera, Zac Ispa-Landa, Jessica Morey, Amita Schmidt, Maury Nation, Kim Gans. I have also been nurtured by the forests and beautiful coastline in mid-coast Maine, the forests, gentle hills and streams in Western Massachusetts. I honor the Native people of the land where I live and work, the Nonotuck and Nipmuc peoples, who have lived, loved, danced and stewarded the land.