Barbara Newell

About me

Mindfulness, meditation and compassion have been the primary focus of Barbara’s life. She trained and taught for twelve years as a nun with Venerable Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. During that time she served as his simultaneous interpreter, editor, and publishing coordinator, and received transmission of the lamp (recognition as a Dharma teacher) from the Zen Master. In 2016 she returned to lay life in the United States wanting to share all she had absorbed with a broader range of people. Since then, she has been working in association with meditation teachers Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, including in their Power of Awareness online course as a mentor and resource-person for other mentors. Barbara received her JD from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and has worked in small and large businesses, law firms, and nonprofits.

I love working with

All kinds of people who know that lotuses are grown from mud, not marble.