Mindfulness & Education Specialist at Mindful Youth - Belmont, California, United States
Ellen McCarty is a mindfulness and education specialist who serves outliers, students in special education and gifted programs, by designing holistic solutions for academic challenges, attention deficit disorders and defiance as well as social and emotional challenges. A former program manager of in-school programs for Mindful Schools, she offers mindfulness workshops for multi-generational families and communities as well as private mindfulness lessons, academic tutoring in Common Core, social skills training and advocacy for students. She completed her mindfulness meditation training in Southeast Asia, training with Buddhist masters in remote forest monasteries between 1998-2000 and received permission from a Vipassana master to teach mindfulness meditation. She has 20+ years of personal meditation practice and a decade of experience teaching mindfulness to families with special needs.