Małgosia Jakubczak

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Website: www.polski-instytut-mindfulness.pl/

is the Founder and Director of the Polski Instytut Mindfulness (The Polish Institute of Mindfulness-POLIM), which has played a leading role in introducing mindfulness in Poland. Among other programs, POLIM offers an MBSR teacher-training program in close cooperation with the IMA and is also a mentor for MBSR teachers-in-training within the IMA. She has a degree in education from the University of Warsaw (1981). She worked for many years in the area of professional development and in-service teacher training for the Polish Ministry of Education. She was the creator of various programs to enhance social skills for teachers, particularly in the area of communication, which were also introduced into the Polish educational system. She is the first person from Poland to complete the IMA’s teacher-training program and has led many MBSR courses. She has practiced Zen meditation practice since 1998. She is the author of Developing Mindfulness in Everyday Life (in Polish, 2010).