Mindfulness Speaker

Jen Johnson is a mindfulness speaker offering online presentations and workshops to support individuals and organizations navigating stress, change, and uncertainty with greater ease and develop inner calm, creativity, and resilience. In each presentation, I teach simple but effective mindfulness practices for stress management and resilience that help people reconnect with what sustains them — presence, purpose, and aliveness — even in demanding times. These offerings are experiential, evidence-based, and accessible, designed to foster renewal without overwhelm.

PRIMARY OFFERINGS

Mindfulness for Stress Management and Resilience

For professionals and organizations seeking evidence-based mindfulness training for stress. You’ll learn simple practices that decrease stress and increase inner calm, creativity, focused attention, and a sense of well-being. Following the training, I am available for consultation to support your team in incorporating the practices into their everyday life at work and at home.

1.5 hour, 3-hour, day-long, or 3-day retreat

Mindful Journaling for Resilience

This experiential journaling workshop is for teams and organizations interested in journaling practices for increasing awareness, creativity, and resilience. This offering is available for any organizational teams who are interested in expressive writing for wellbeing. It is also a great expressive writing practice for healthcare and mental health teams. Jen is available to offer an initial workshop, and some teams decide to continue with her facilitating weekly or monthly workshops to support team stress management, creativity, and resilience.

1.5 hour, 3 hour

Grief Ritual: Tending the Beauty of What Remains

For communities and organizations seeking a gentle, meaningful way to acknowledge loss and honor grief through mindfulness and ritual.

1.5 hour, 3 hour, daylong

SPECIALIZED OFFERINGS

Weathering the Storms: Mindfulness for Stress Management and Resilience in a Changing World

This presentation is for organizations that are impacted by the societal upheaval, humanitarian crises, and the impacts of changing weather in our world today. It focuses on mindfulness-based practices for reducing stress and increasing inner calm and wellbeing. We are experiencing increased frequency and intensity of storms across the world, and research tells us that we are experience health and mental health impacts from these changes. The workshop focuses on strategies for reducing stress and increasing inner calm, focused attention, and resilience. We will explore ways that we can meet what we are facing with awareness and inner strength and find ways to take meaningful action.

1.5 hour, 3 hour

Climate Psychology: Therapeutic Interventions for Ecological Anxiety & Grief

For mental health professionals seeking clinically grounded evidence-based approaches to working with ecological distress, grief, and meaning-making. Previous attendees have reported that it has helped them to better understand the science behind climate change and its related health and mental health impacts, offered them strategies for coping, and offered them therapeutic approaches for better serving their clients who have been impacted by climate change and natural disasters.

1.5 hour, 3 hour

Writing with the Earth: Coping with a Warming World

For groups interested in using reflective writing and attention to the living world as a resource for resilience, insight, and renewal. The workshop includes a 1.5 hour presentation on the health and mental health impacts of a warming world, strategies for stress management and resilience, and ways to take meaningful action. The last 1.5 hour section of the workshop includes writing in response to prompts and discussion about the ways we are all being impacted by our changing weather.

3 hour

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Jen Johnson Speaker Bio

Jen Johnson is a mindfulness coach and counselor teaching mindfulness, writing, and nature connection practices for inner calm, creative aliveness, and wellbeing. She has been a counselor, speaker, and mindfulness teacher for 40+ years. Her writing has been published in book chapters, a poetry anthology, The Healing Muse, health, wellness, and creativity publications, and professional training manuals. Jen is the author of Everyday Mindful column that explores finding refuge through mindfulness, creativity, and nature connection..

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Jen Johnson’s Previous Speaking Events

• Climate Reality Project Northeast Ohio
• Virtual Ability annual mental health conference in Second Life
• Employee Assistance Professionals Association of NC
• Employee Assistance Professionals Association ZZ Chapter
• University of North Carolina Medical School
• Charlotte Behavioral Health Center, FL
• Garland Restaurant, Raleigh, NC
• Aquant, New York, NY
• The Cedars of Chapel Hill, NC
• Reimagine: Life, Loss, and Love Festival 
• Lufthansa Cargo, Atlanta, GA
• GoTerra, Cranbera, Australia
• Resource Center Women in Ministry in the South, Durham, NC
• Cape Fear Sierra Club, Wilmington, NC
• New Hanover County Health Department, Wilmington, NC
• New Hanover County Sheriff’s Department, Wilmington, NC
• Island Montessori School, Carolina Beach, NC
• Brain Injury Association of NC. Keynote presenter 2017 
• Wells College, Aurora, NY. Teacher in residence March 2016
• Cape Fear Museum, Wilmington, NC
• Invisible Wounds of War project, NC
• Wells Insurance, Wilmington, NC
• Licensed Professional Counselors Association of North Carolina, Statewide Conference 2015, Raleigh, NC
• Tri-County Dental Association, Wilmington, NC
• Licensed Professional Counselors Association of North Carolina, Regional Conference 2015, Wilmington, NC
• Licensed Professional Counselors Association of North Carolina, Regional Conference 2015, Asheville, NC
• University of North Carolina Wilmington, Keynote address at the inaugural annual Women’s Conference
• Carolina Wellness Institute, Hillsborough, NC
• Wilmington Health Pumpers Club
• Wilmington Health Diabetes Support Group
• Wilmington YMCA
• International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals, Triangle, NC Regional Chapter. Raleigh, NC
• National Association for Social Workers, Wilmington, NC
• St. Andrews Presbyterian Church, Wilmington, NC
• Lower Cape Fear Hospice & LifeCareCenter, Wilmington, NC
• GRUB, Wilmington, NC
• Quality Enhancement for Nonprofit Organizations, Wilmington, NC
• University of North Carolina-Wilmington
• University of North Carolina-Asheville
• CarePartners Hospice, Asheville, NC
• Wellness and Writing Connections Conference, Atlanta, GA
• Asheville Mild Brain Injury Support Group
• Goddard College, Plainfield VT
• Narrative Matters International Interdisciplinary Conference, Toronto, Canada
• Georgia State Board of Worker’s Compensation Conference, Atlanta, GA
• Atlanta Mild Brain Injury Support Group
• Atlanta United Church of Christ
• GENEX Case Management Company, Atlanta, GA
• Shepherd Center Rehabilitation Hospital, Atlanta, GA
• Veterans Administration, Atlanta, GA
• Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
• Georgia Council on Child Abuse, Atlanta, GA

Benefits of Meditation and Mindfulness

Meditation practice has been shown to increase:

• inner peace
• happiness
• well-being
• creativity
• resilience

Meditation and mindfulness have been shown to decrease symptoms of:

• stress
• anxiety
• fatigue
• autoimmune disorders
• gastrointestinal disorders
• symptoms of cardiovascular disorders
• high blood pressure
• depression

It is estimated that over 90% of illness is stress related. Mindfulness and meditation are frequently cited in the research as some of the most effective methods to increase well-being and reduce stress.

Mental Health at Work

According to the World Health Organization, “An estimated 15% of working-age adults have a mental disorder at any point in time.  Depression and anxiety are estimated to cost the global economy US $1 trillion each year driven predominantly by lost productivity.”

WHO’s Guidelines for Mental Health at Work recommends interventions that build workers’ skills in stress management, such as interventions based on mindfulness or cognitive behavioral approaches.