CERTIFICATIONS

  • Mindfulness Mentor – with Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach at Banyan (2024-2025)

  • Teacher of Presence – with Eckhart Tolle & Kim Eng, School of Awakening (Completion April 2025)

  • MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction) – with Ginny Wholley, UMass Memorial Center (2023)

  • Teaching Mindfulness to Children – with Amy Saltzman, Still Quiet Place (2020)

  • Robbins Madanes Core Training 100 (Professional Coaching) – Tony Robbins & Chloe Madanes (2016)

TRAININGS

  • Transforming Emotional Suffering with RAIN – Tara Brach, The Radical Compassion Institute (2023)

  • Trauma Toolkit / Trauma-informed Mindfulness – Sam Himmelstein, Center for Adolescent Studies, CA (2022)

  • Mindfulness Foundations-MS101, Mindfulness in the Classroom-MS 202 – Mindful Schools (2021)

  • Opening to Our Lives Training – Jon Kabat-Zinn, Sounds True (2021)

  • Buddhist Studies – Mark Nunberg, Common Ground (2020-2022)

  • Power of Awareness Training – Jack Kornfield & Tara Brach (2020)

TEACHERS

Main Teachers: Jack Kornfield, Tara Brach, Eckhart Tolle, Rupert Spira, Jon Kabat-Zinn

Denise D’Rozario

Mindfulness Mentor

Denise has been a dedicated practitioner and student of mindfulness since 2017 and has certifications in mindfulness teaching and mentoring. Her practice includes daily formal and informal meditation, ongoing participation in mentorship groups, trainings and retreats; study of mindfulness in Buddhist and secular contexts, and evidence-based practices taught by several well-known teachers.

Denise discovered meditation and the power of presence during a time of personal grief and uncertainty in her life, and with each year of practice, she observed the transformative power that this had on her mind and heart – deepening her sense of connection to herself and others, and recognizing that irrespective of how life unfolds it is possible to be in a place of true peace and contentment and have the capacity for wise and caring response over-reactivity.

Over the past year, Denise has served as a mindfulness mentor and facilitator – focusing on mindfulness for caregivers using the RAIN practice. Denise has a master’s degree in public affairs and decades of experience in leadership and facilitator roles with people of varying ages, ethnicities, and social and professional backgrounds – from time spent in social impact work, on nonprofit boards, in a former corporate career, and as part of her long-time commitment to youth mentoring.

With the launch of Befriending Peace, Denise is committed to continuing to deepen her own practice while offering safe and welcoming small group spaces for anyone who is looking to explore the practice of mindfulness and meditation and cultivate more peace and connection in their day-to-day life.