About

Cathy Cebulski Sacco is an experienced educator, certified mindfulness meditation teacher, author and artist working at the intersection of human development, health and wellness, creativity and spirituality. She is committed to helping people reduce stress and anxiety, increase their mind-body resilience, and live in the joy in the present moment.

Cathy consults and partners with organizations to offer compassionate, evidence-based mindfulness/mind-body courses, custom mindfulness programs and creative retreats that help develop life-skills to reduce stress and anxiety, increase self-regulation and focus, and improve empathy, communications, life-balance, and increase creativity and foster problem-solving.

She is a qualified teacher of the evidence-based 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) program through the Mindfulness Center at Brown University and UMass Memorial Medical Center where the program was created by Jon Kabat-Zinn. She is a certified Mindful Schools teacher and also has trained in Koru Mindfulness for emerging adults, Mindfulness In Schools (MISP), and the 8-week Mindful Self-Compassion program through UCSD. She has had a personal meditation practice for over 20 years.

Cathy presents locally and nationally on the topics of mindfulness and stress, self-compassion, arts-integration, creativity and nature. She has been part of several research studies and mindfulness-based interventions, and has co-authored several research papers.

She has been on faculty in Xavier University’s School of Childhood Education for the last ten years and has an M.Ed from Xavier with AMS Montessori I–II credentials. She is a graduate of Naropa University’s Authentic Leadership Contemplative Program, The Conscious Feminine Leadership Training (Women Writing For a Change) and a member of the American Montessori Society. Cathy is also an artist and song-writer, has a creative arts studio at Brazee Street Studios.

Time For Wonder, her first book, is now available at Joseph-Beth Booksellers and on Amazon. Signed copies are available locally by emailing cathy@cathysacco.com. Cathy can be reached for scheduling classes, workshops and experiential author talks at cathy@cathysacco.com.