Monique Potts (PhD)

Dr Monique Potts is a teacher, researcher, catalyser and innovator focusing on transformative resilience, experiential learning and healing. Monique has been studying and practicing meditation and mindfulness for over 30 years with Mahayana Buddhist centre FPMT and teachers. She now leads meditation at her local Buddhist centre. In 2023 she completed a PhD focused on understanding resilience experiential learning for young people in the context of uncertain futures and climate disruption. This research inspired by Western psychology, Buddhism and First Nations knowledge systems identified a framework of meta-competencies for transformative resilience: adaptability, agency, creativity, compassion, courage, interbeing and self-awareness. There is a meditation for each informed by her research findings and practice.

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