Workshop Facilitators

Margaret Fletcher has a great love and concern for our shared Earth. As a member of the 2022-2023 Eco-Advisory Group with the BESS Family Foundation, she has found great collegiality, support and inspiration to offer contemplative practices as healing and wellness for the interconnected web of life on Earth. Margaret is the originator of the MBSR & EcoAwareness workshop. 

Margaret trained and is certified to teach MBSR through the Center for Mindfulness at UMass Medical School, where she also served as an MBSR Teacher and Senior MBSR Teacher Trainer. She trained with and is certified by senior trainers at Bangor and Oxford Universities in assessing MBSR teacher competency using the MBI-TAC tool, which she uses in mentoring mindfulness teachers. In 2019 Margaret co-founded East Coast Mindfulness with Rebecca Eldridge; Margaret continues to teach and train MBSR teachers through East Coast Mindfulness. Margaret holds a Master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies from Lesley University, and brings over two decades of experience in teaching meditation and mindfulness in corporate, small business, non-profit, church and community settings. 

Mark Dannenfelser is the founding director of the Mindfulness Center of Atlanta (2009). He is a certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction teacher, a licensed professional counselor, and a registered yoga teacher. The mission of the Mindfulness Center of Atlanta is to increase the well-being, healing and clinical outcomes of those suffering from chronic stress, illness or injury and the challenges of being human, using evidence-based, integrative, mind/body practices taken from the ancient spiritual traditions and modern psychology. Mark’s professional interest and passion is to support healing, integration and equilibrium within the individual, society and the natural world by increasing awareness of and care for our inner and outer landscapes.

Mark holds the Master Degree in Counseling Psychology from Montclair University and the Master Degree in Pastoral Studies from Spring Hill College. He holds the Certificate in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction from the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society™ at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (Jon Kabat-Zinn, Saki Santorelli), the Certificate in Mindfulness Mentor Training from Banyan (Tara Brach, Jack Kornfield), the Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Training from David Treleaven, the EMDR Training, Level I and II from the EMDR Institute (Francine Shapiro) and the Certificate in Spiritual Direction from Spring Hill College.