About

Cathy Cebulski Sacco is an experienced educator, mindfulness meditation teacher, author and artist. She is committed to helping people reduce stress, increasing their resilience and live with more joy.

For the past 15 years, Cathy has partnered with organizations to offer evidence-based mindfulness courses, custom mind-body programs and creative retreats for workplace balance and productivity. Outcomes include reductions in stress, anxiety and depression, increased self-regulation and attention, and improved communications and creative problem-solving. She has also worked with populations such as cancer patients, survivors and caregivers, university faculty and students, medical students, counselors, teachers, youth and the general public.

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

In higher education, Cathy has worked to bring mindfulness and contemplative approaches to faculty and staff, and for student wellbeing and social-emotional intelligence. She received a grant to develop and co-lead a year-long interdisciplinary faculty learning community on mindfulness, contemplative practices and creativity in the classroom, and has organized speakers and workshops for faculty and student wellbeing and facilitated wellness retreats.

She teaches 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 studied with renowned teachers in the field and has had a personal meditation practice for over 20 years.

Cathy has been on faculty at Xavier University’s School of Childhood Education for the last ten years and holds 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), a member of the Being Peace Sangha in Cincinnati and the American Montessori Society. She has a creative arts studio at Brazee Street Studios.

Time For Wonder, her first book, is now available on Amazon with signed copies available locally. Cathy can be reached for scheduling classes, workshops and author talks at cathysacco@gmail.com or 513-535-8575.