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About the Instructors
Franca Leeson — Director
“I really appreciate the work you're doing and want you to know that it stays with me in more ways than I know — your analogies, metaphors, stories and analyses take the dharma and present it in a simple way that does not steer away from the complexities. I hope you live a long life and that you can pass the teachings on to many more people.” — email from a student
Franca Leeson has been teaching Buddhist meditation in meditation centres, community centres, and in private sessions since 2000. She has also presented meditation and creativity sessions at Mindcamp in Toronto since 2003 and at the CREA (Creativity European Association) Conference in Italy since 2005.
She became interested in Buddhist meditation in the early 1980s, and took refuge in 1981 with Chöje Lama Namse Rinpoche in Toronto. Since then she has received teachings and initiations from several very senior Tibetan teachers, including Kalu Rinpoche, Jamgon Kongtrul Rinpoche, Thrangu Rinpoche, Ponlop Rinpoche, and others. She also has had the benefit of the teaching and encouragement of a number of outstanding Western teachers, including Catherine Jetsun Yeshe. These days she studies in the Dzogchen tradition with Ruth Gilbert and Jon Parmenter, and benefits greatly from the mentoring, encouragement, and friendship of Ken McLeod.
Her particular interest is in helping people develop their own meditation practice in the context of a full "outside" life, whatever that includes: work, children, marriage, family responsibilities. She likes to show how eastern techniques and their attendant philosophies can be accessible and relevant to western people.
When she's not meditating or teaching, she's walking her dog, creating websites, or making music.
Meg Salter
“You have a great style and way of handling all questions with ease and being able to expand on them. You also make everyone feel comfortable and able to work with what they bring to the class.” — feedback from a student
Meg Salter has been practicing meditation since 1995 and teaching meditation since 2003 through group classes, individual coaching and in organizations. Her purpose in teaching meditation is to share with others the practices that have been of so much benefit to her in personal life, professional life and spiritual unfolding.
Her meditation training started with Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and later included Christian meditation practice. She did Tibetan Buddhist foundation training with Catherine Jetsun Yeshe. She has also been privileged to take in-depth meditation training with Shinzen Young and Ken McLeod. She is a regular participant in Ken Wilber Integral sites and groups and attends public teachings by contemporary Buddhist and spiritual leaders. Her meditation training has always been in the context of raising a family and building a professional career, which has shaped both how and why she practices.
Through MegaSpace Consulting she provides organizational effectiveness and leadership coaching services to public, private, health care and non-profit organizations.
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