Mindful Awareness Practice Center

Specialties

Mindful Awareness Practice Center is a stress reduction and meditation instruction center located in the Springfield, Massachusetts area. Teaching mindfulness meditation since 2009, we offer the 8-​week mindfulness-​based stress reduction class (MBSR — first taught by Jon Kabat-​Zinn), seminars and training to teachers, administrators, and staff for mindfulness in education, as well as individual mindfulness coaching. We also offer interactive presentations that introduce the theory and practice of mindfulness to businesses, civic organizations, churches, social groups, and libraries. Contact us today for more information!

History

Established in 2009.

In 2009, after practicing as a physician assistant since 1985, it became clear to Leslie that many peoples’ difficulty and distress resulted from unrelieved stress. Mindfulness practice had been helpful in her own life, so she made a significant career shift to teach mindfulness full time, opening the Mindful Awareness Practice Center.

She had taken mindfulness teacher training in 2000 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School Center for Mindfulness. She has taught mindfulness-​based courses in public elementary, middle and high schools in Longmeadow and Northampton, at Bay Path University where she is adjunct faculty, Baystate Medical Center, as well as offering public talks and professional development seminars.

Leslie was recently invited to join the teaching faculty at the Center for Mindfulness, which was started by Jon Kabat-​Zinn in 1979.

Meet the Business Owner

Leslie F.

Business Owner

Leslie Smith Frank is a full time teacher of mindfulness. When she began practicing mindfulness in 1993, she discovered that her stressors did not change, but she was better able to deal with them. And she felt better!

Her background a a physician assistant, as well as mother, daughter, wife and friend have supported her development as a teacher.

She was trained to teach at the University of Massachusetts Medical School’s Center for Mindfulness, where she is a member of the teaching faculty.

Leslie teaches mindfulness practice in the community,

at Bay Path University in the undergraduate and graduate divisions, as well as in elementary, middle and high schools in Longmeadow, Chicopee, and Northampton, MA.

Public talks, enrichment programs, professional in-​service training and workshops have been widely requested throughout Western MA.

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