OUR VISION
Mindful Insights envisions a world where humans live in awareness, realize their true potential, and choose a way of life that helps the world become a peaceful and compassionate place to live in.
OUR MISSION
We empower individuals, leaders and organizations to realize their potential and collectively help the world become a better place to live in, by helping them access their innate wisdom, enhance their resilience, discover their values, purpose and mission, and make decisions that are congruent with these core values, through the practice of mindfulness and compassion.
OUR VALUES
Compassion, Integrity, Honesty, Service, Autonomy and Balance
ABOUT CARMEN TEO
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF MINDFULNESS AND COMPASSION TRAINING PROGRAMS
Carmen Teo, EdD, is a professional mindfulness trainer who received training from reputable international institutions to deliver training programs for various populations. Her credentials include: fully Certified MBSR Teacher and Approved Teacher Mentor of the classic and renowned Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program with UC San Diego’s Center for Mindfulness, fully Certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher with the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion founded by Kristin Neff, PhD and Chris Germer, PhD, and Workplace Mindfulness under TME (spin-off from Oxford Mindfulness Center) and Oxford Mindfulness Center. She also holds an Advanced Certificate for Training & Assessment (ACTA), a professional workplace trainer certification from WDA, a Certified Yoga Instructor, and trained in Trauma-sensitive Mindfulness (TSM).
She started her mindfulness journey in 2007 while living in the U.S., which later helped her emerge stronger from a job burnout, health challenges and existential crisis. Her years of mindfulness and compassion practice, regular attendance in silent meditation retreats for more than a decade, and reading into scientific research allow her to realize how the practice can potentially allow human beings to develop insights of their habitual patterns and life’s conditioning, access their innate wisdom, enhance their resilience, discover their deepest held values and purpose in life, and make choices in life that are congruent with their core values. In living a mindful life, one starts to flourish and creates meaningful impact in the world.
Her passion and hope for the world eventually motivated her bold shift from a high-flying corporate career to a mind-body practitioner. She founded Mindful Insights in 2015 with the intention to empower individuals, leaders and organizations to realize their true potential and to collectively help the world become a better place to live in, through the practice of mindfulness and compassion.
Prior to being a mindfulness and compassion teacher/mentor, Carmen spent fifteen years in corporate in the areas of consulting, strategy, analytics, and marketing in various leadership positions.
Her versatile background has enabled her to deliver trainings to a variety of populations in universities, social welfare agencies, public schools, corporations, healthcare system, criminal justice system, and government agencies. Since 2015, she has delivered mindfulness talks and workshops to thousands, and journeyed with hundreds in longer multi-week mindfulness programs. In addition, she also trains and mentors in-house mindfulness facilitators in organizations.
Carmen holds a Bachelor Degree from the NUS Business School, a Master Degree from Cornell University, and Doctor in Education from NTU-NIE. She researches on the intersections of human motivation, mindfulness and well-being.
However, she does not see paper qualifications as important as compared to the impact we make in other peoples’ lives, as she counts Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela amongst the many people who inspire her in her life. True education should be education of both the mind and the heart; it is a lifelong journey beyond the confines of a classroom.
Carmen was born and raised in Singapore and had lived in New York, Florida and Cambodia at some points in her life. She enjoys nature, travelling and living without technological devices whenever possible.
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