Jean Leonard, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist, dharma teacher, Buddhist Ecochaplain, and certified Mindful Self-Compassion teacher in private practice in Louisville, Colorado. A longtime meditator in the Theravada tradition, she holds the Dharma as a sacred compass that guides her personal and professional life, and is currently a trainee in the Spirit Rock/IMS 4-year teacher training program. In her teaching and mindfulness-informed mentoring and therapeutic work, she supports individuals through sacred accompaniment in meeting the circumstances of their lives and themselves with more gentleness, grace and good humor. She believes that with more access to clarity and compassion, we can remain in connection – with ourselves, our communities, and the Earth – finding ways of coming back into right relationship with the natural and social world to be a steward of transformation for the well-being of all. She has a particular passion for nature practice, women’s sangha building, the embodiment of the precepts in daily life, and practice related to aging, illness and dying. She delights in pottery, poetry, her two cats, and soaking in the wisdom of elder trees.