In the Netherlands, the School for Mindfulness and Communication team consists of Zohair Elabd, Frits Koster and Lidewij Severins.

Outside the Netherlands, we cooperate with several training institutes. Currently we are active in Poland, Brazil and Turkey. For international or online training, please visit our international website: www.schoolofmindfulcommunication.com (website under development)

Zohair Elabd

Zohair Elabd is a certified mindfulness trainer (MBSR/MBCT), trainer of Mindfulness Deepening & Mindful Communication (MVMC) and founder of ZoMindful and the School for Mindfulness & Communication.

After a career in business, he transitioned to education and mindfulness teaching. Zohair’s training included secular Mindfulness, Interpersonal Mindfulness, Insight Dialogue, Nonviolent Communication and Mindful Communication. Zohair also served for a period as a duo city councilor in Amsterdam. He brings the experiences he gained in various sectors to his mindfulness teaching.

Zohair provides training, education and retreats. He developed the evidence-based and accredited in-depth program Mindfulness Deepening & Mindful Communicating (MVMC), which is taught both at home and abroad. Together with Frits Koster, he developed the program into a training course.

In addition to his work as a mindfulness trainer, Zohair works as a project manager and teacher at MBO, where he leads a project that encourages social and sustainable entrepreneurship among young people. See also www.zomindful.nl

Frits Koster

Frits Koster is a meditation teacher, mindfulness and compassion trainer. He has practiced vipassana meditation for 45 years, lived for 6 years as a monk in Buddhist monasteries in Southeast Asia and then worked as a psychiatric nurse.

He has written several books (Asoka and Boom) and has years of experience as a retreat facilitator. He completed training as a mindfulness trainer at the Institute for Mindfulness and is a lecturer at several mindfulness training institutes in Europe.

Frits is trained as a trainer in the Interpersonal Mindfulness Program (IMP) and Mindfulness-Based Supervision (MBS).Together with his partner Jetty Heynekamp, he has his own practice under the name Training Office Mildness & Mindfulness, from which he guides meditation retreats at home and abroad. Together they have compiled “The Art of Mindful Communication” (Boom, 2021). See www.fritskoster.nl

Lidewij Severins

Lidewij Severins co-founder and yoga teacher at Yoga Circle, doula and family constellator. Lidewij can hardly imagine it anymore, but once she studied Business Administration and Public Administration, and worked in the corporate world. Meanwhile, her whole life is dedicated to yoga.

She was introduced to yoga at an early age and after several trips to India, Thailand and Bali, among other places, she decided to follow her heart and focus entirely on yoga. She attended several yoga teacher trainings and developed a great love for Ashtanga yoga and Yin yoga.

For her, her daily yoga and meditation practice is a journey inward, which brings her a deep sense of calm while giving her a lot of energy. She sees her yoga mat as a mirror that keeps showing her new sides of herself. With her classes, she hopes to help others get closer to themselves and inspire them to live a conscious and loving life. See www.lidewijseverins.com/

In the training, Lidewij Severins conducts the Yin yoga workshop.

Marta Markocka-Pepol

Marta Markocka-Pepol is the founder of Wasza Uważność – szkolenia trenerskie.

Marta is trained as an MBSR teacher in 2018 in the former Polish Mindfulness Institute (Fundacja Polski Instytut Mindfulness), an MBCL teacher in 2021 in the Institute for Mindfulness-Based Approaches, an MBCL tutor in 2023, and a DMMC teacher in ZoMindful in 2024. She has since been teaching the three programs to the general public, and also mindfulness, compassion and mindful communication group workshops in companies and institutions.

She is a translator and a publisher of Polish Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living. A Practical Guide to MBCL, published in 2023.

In 2022 she started cooperation with Zohair Elabd, Frits Koster and Anjalika Bose, to introduce and translate into Polish DMMC Teacher Trainings.

Visit www.mbcl-polska.pl for more information.

Mayra Machado

Mayra Machado… more to come 🙂

 

 

 

Canan Coskun Sayin

Canan Coskun Sayin is the founder of Mindfulness ve Sefkat Akademi, an academy for mindfulness and compassion. “We strive to spread and deliver awareness and compassion as much as possible, grounded in conscious, ethical, scientific, and ancient knowledge, to support the well-being of individuals and society.”

Canan is our partner in Türkiye and coordinates the courses and teacher training Deepening Mindfulness & Mindful Communication.

For more information, visit: Mindfulness ve Sefkat Akademi