Victoria Fontana
Teacher and Coach · Mindfulness, Compassion, Wellness & Somatics
About me
Hi! I’m Victoria
- Mindfulness, Compassion and Imagery Teacher
- Mindfulness, Wellness & Somatic Coach, ACC
I am committed to working with individuals, organizations and teams via training and coaching, to create awareness around your values and purpose, discover your strengths and foster acceptance and integration of all that makes you the unique human that you are. With this, comes an ability to shed unwanted stress and suffering and live and work in coherence with your values, thus obtaining extraordinary results in life, at work, in sports, in your organization or on your team.
My path to here…
here and now…
In 2007 I began to explore meditation and mindfulness in an informal way, reading books and meditating on and off. Even with this inconsistent self study and practice, I began to see real changes. It was on a trip to Tibet a few years later where I fully consolidated my contemplative practice and started meditating on a daily basis. Little by little I experienced the powerful, subtle transformation and well-being brought about by this practice and I knew that I wanted to share it with others. I discovered that our potential as humans to create deep change and self-heal was much more accessible than I had ever known. This is not a panacea for everything, but it can help us come a little closer to a fuller and more joyous existence.
This is an adventure…
Every day is a new adventure and I am still deepening my own practice as I help others develop their own and reconnect with their authenticity and true selves.
The girl on the left is me when I was little. Mindfulness has brought me back to this, my true essence, and compassion practice has helped me to re-parent her towards a happy and free life.
Let’s walk together
Training & Workshops
I offer courses and workshops in personal and professional development aimed at maximizing conscious awareness, well-being and human potential through contemplative practices such as Mindfulness, Compassion, Imagery and Breath-work.
Coaching
I use evidence-based coaching techniques such as Positive Psychology and Mindfulness to develop positive leadership (personal and professional), attention and concentration, stress management, emotional intelligence, self-awareness and wellness.
Life-long learning
Life is the eternal teacher…
Victoria Fontana, M.A., ACC is a teacher of Contemplative Practices and Mindfulness & Conscious Leadership Coach. She is holds the maximum Certificate of Competency in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) from Bangor University and is a certified Compassion-Based Resilience Training (CBRT) Instructor by Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science.
Victoria holds an MSc in Mindfulness-Based Approaches from Bangor University, Wales, UK and a Certificate in Contemplative Psychotherapy from the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science in New York.
She is also an ICF accredited coach (ACC) and earned her Mindfulness, Wellness and Somatic Coaching certificate through the Mindfulness Coaching School.
Prior to this, she trained as a Mindfulness Consultant at the Escuela Española de Desarrollo Transpersonal, Madrid, Spain, accredited by the European University of Miguel de Cervantes; and as a Meditation Teacher by the Fundación Seresh, Madrid, Spain.
In addition to Mindfulness, Victoria holds a Master’s Degree in Education and currently teaches Leadership, Mindfulness & Compassion, Writing and Spanish at IE University.
She is also a painter. You can see her work at www.victoriafontanaart.com.
Friends…
I feel grateful to be able to learn from, collaborate and associate with these friends and professionals.
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“That silence which is not the silence of the ending of noise is only a small beginning. It is like going through a small hole to an enormous, wide, expansive ocean, to an immeasurable, timeless state. But this you cannot understand verbally unless you have understood the whole structure of consciousness and the meaning of pleasure, sorrow and despair, and the brain cells themselves have become quiet. Then perhaps you may come upon that mystery which nobody can reveal to you and nothing can destroy.”
– J. Krishnamurti
Freedom from the Known, 109