Grace is a lived experience chronic pain sufferer (Crohns disease) who benefited enormously from mindfulness practice after taking Dr. Lucinda Sykes training in Toronto in 2009. She has a degree in anthropology from the University of Toronto. She was one of the earliest facilitators trained in MBCPM and has gone on to co-facilitate the MBCPM course with Dr. Jackie Gardner-Nix. She is articulate and insightful and manages mindfulness delivery and inquiry with grace(!) and great expertise. She shares this online in the Curriculum Implementation and Development (CID) Training, and also participates in instructing the Curriculum Training Intensive (CTI). She lives in Toronto with her husband and two young daughters.