Head Mind Body integrates mindfulness, movement and meditation practices to help you relax your head, observe your mind, and reconnect with your body. 

Training in awareness improves focus, cultivates emotional regulation, and fosters resilience. It is a gentle way of waking up.

Looking to improve your personal well-being, seeking to enhance your meditation practice, or just curious about all the hype? Try a class, a coaching sesson, or bring a training to your school or organization.

I’m Amy Head, a certified mindfulness instructor and ADHD coach with over twenty years of experience studying and teaching meditation internationally. My two decades working with Tibetan and Himalayan communities inspired my efforts to share mindfulness and compassion in accessible and practical ways. That translated into training in certification for a practical approach to working with clients from parents, adults, teens, and corporate board members, to cultivate greater awareness, emotional intelligence and resilience. My techniques combine practical science based methods and contemplative practices.

“Your teaching style and the way you presented the concepts made learning easy and enjoyable. ”
— Erasmus University staff
“Amy creates a supportive and inclusive environment where children can share their experiences and feelings with each other through through innovative & engaging group discussions that promote empathy, compassion & a sense of community. ”
— N. Bhardwaj (parent)
“Learning to be present in the moment, led to a sense of ease that was palpable and refreshing.”
— Carol

“We know that mindfulness skills help kids who have experienced trauma or who have anxiety, depression or ADHD.”

-Nikki Rose, licensed clinical social worker, Mayo Clinic Center for Safe and Healthy Children and Adolescents

Professional Experience

I bring a practical, compassionate, and secular approach to developing awareness and emotional well-being. My work is informed by traditional meditation practices, neuroscience, and the latest research.

My work spans non-profit organizations, universities, HR departments, community centers, and schools, both locally and internationally.

Credentials

  • Certified Mindfulness in Schools (MISP) trainer

  • Cognitively Based Compassion Training (CBCT®)

  • SEE Learning® (Social, Emotional, and Ethical Learning) instructor

  • SEE Learning Play® early childhood play based SEL curriculum

    International Clients include:

  • Virtual Care Provider Inc.

  • Erasmus University

  • Den Haag School of Applied Sciences

  • University of Wisconsin Hospital

  • Harbour International School

  • Boy and Girls Club of Wisconsin

  • Where There Be Dragons

“When we are aware of what is happening in the moment, we can make a choice to offer ourselves and others compassion instead of judgement.”
— - Amy Head

Learn practical ways to integrate mindfulness into your daily life, empowering you to cultivate a greater sense of presence and well-being.

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Learn practical ways to integrate mindfulness into your daily life, empowering you to cultivate a greater sense of presence and well-being. *

Supporting personal wellbeing through practices rooted in compassion for self and others.

I believe that a daily mindfulness practice can be done in bite size pieces, which makes it easier to jump start a habit that has been proven over and over again to be a beneficial way to combat stress and cultivate a greater sense of wellbeing.

“Meditation is called a practice for a reason. Over time meditation can help you become more familiar with your mind and body which opens a path to becoming more aware. This awareness gives you the freedom to move from reacting, to responding.”
— Amy Head

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What is CBCT?

Overview of CBCT®

Compassion is the urge to do something about the suffering of others. Just like learning to speak a language or make music, compassion is a skill, a basic capacity of the human heart that can be developed and expanded. Compassion that is responsive and wise can become an enduring habit that benefits both giver and receiver and contributes to a kinder and more just world.

“Compassion” can carry different meanings in different contexts, so here we would like to pause to clarify what it means for CBCT® (Cognitively-Based Compassion Training). Compassion is the warm-hearted concern that unfolds when we witness the suffering of others and feel motivated to relieve it. Though witnessing others’ suffering can also lead to responses like distress or overwhelm or even pity, compassion is unique. It is positive, proactive, and energizing. 

Compassion refers to the heartfelt wish for others to be free from dissatisfaction and distress. “Love” also refers to a heartfelt wish for others, specifically, the wish to see them flourish and be happy. To use a metaphor from the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition, compassion and love are two sides of the same coin. Genuine compassion and love can arise only when we relate to others with warm or tender feelings. This makes sense: As soon as you include someone within your sphere of tender or affectionate feelings, their wellbeing matters to you. You want them to be happy. You don’t want them to suffer. Compassion and love simply emerge.

CBCT® offers a comprehensive method for training compassion that draws on the ancient lojong tradition of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism and is supported by current scientific research in fields such as evolutionary biology, psychology, and neuroscience. While CBCT has its roots in Tibetan Buddhism, it was developed as a secular program, one that introduces practices that can help any individual strengthen their inner skills of the heart and mind. Compassion does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is a capacity of the human heart and one that we can strengthen through deliberate practice. 

In CBCT®, we cultivate compassion through meditation, which comes from the words bhavana in Sanskrit or gom in Tibetan, and literally translate as to cultivate or to familiarize. Meditation, thus, is about training the mind to cultivate qualities such as compassion and to familiarize ourselves with – to have intimate knowledge of – the various skills and perspectives that generate and sustain such qualities.

At this moment, you may be turning to compassion training to contribute to your own well-being, or because you want to create more trusting and harmonious relationships with friends or family. You may want to enhance your ability to focus in order to make better decisions. Perhaps you wish for a healthier culture at your place of work. You may engage in compassion training to find a path toward a more equitable and just world. What these goals have in common is one thing: flourishing. Flourishing is why any one of us will train in compassion, whether we seek it alone or together, or seek to extend it to individuals or groups. In this way, compassion training contributes to a healthier and more ethical world. 

“CBCT has given me a chance to reevaluate the purpose and current trajectory of my life. It has pointed my nose in a direction allowing me to become who I might hope to be – or at least give it my best shot!”   

-- CBCT Practitioner, 2022

FAQs

  • The classic definition of mindfulness is paying attention, on purpose without judgement. (Jon Kabott-Zinn)

  • Social and emotional learning (SEL) is an integral part of education and human development. SEL is the process through which all young people and adults acquire and apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes to develop healthy identities, manage emotions and achieve personal and collective goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain supportive relationships, and make responsible and caring decisions.

    SEL advances educational equity and excellence through authentic school-family-community partnerships to establish learning environments and experiences that feature trusting and collaborative relationships, rigorous and meaningful curriculum and instruction, and ongoing evaluation. SEL can help address various forms of inequity and empower young people and adults to co-create thriving schools and contribute to safe, healthy, and just communities. (from CASEL)

  • Integrating mindfulness into daily life encourages a healthier, more balanced approach to challenges & opportunities.

  • Let’s set up a free intro session to talk about your needs and to try some very short practices.