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Session 1: What is Mindfulness?

Welcome to the first session of The Mindful Break, presented by St. Margaret Foundation. In today's session, we will learn about mindfulness, how to stay calm, and the purpose of meditation. Following this is a 15-minute guided meditation so that you may start practicing mindfulness in your daily life. Click below to begin Session 1: What is Mindfulness?

The Instructor: Mary Lee Gannon is the president of St. Margaret Foundation, a Certified Association Executive (CAE), International Coach Federation Certified Coach (ACC), a Professional Certified Coach graduate of Duquesne University, alumnus of the UCLA Mindful Awareness Practices Program and the Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital Coaching in Medicine & Leadership Conference, and scholarship recipient to the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership – created at Google. She has been teaching mindfulness and meditation for 10 years.

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The Reason We Exist

St. Margaret Foundation is a 501(c)3 organization that is further classified as a public charity, independent of UPMC. The reason we exist is because when you're sick it's difficult enough without having to worry if you have a ride to chemotherapy or treatment, or if you can pay for the expensive medicine, hearing aids, walkers, insulin, and other items you need that aren't covered by insurance and that most of us take for granted. Your gift fills in those heartbreaking gaps of suffering with hope, healing and independence for patients of St. Margaret. We thank you on their behalf.

Contact us

815 Freeport Road

100 Medical Arts Building 

Suite 112 
Pittsburgh, PA 15215

smf@upmc.edu | 412-784-4205

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