What is Mindfulness-Based Coaching?
I help people and organizations bring full expression to their creative potential, while also supporting them to skillfully meet life with care.
Rooted in Buddhist principles, mindfulness-based coaching recognizes our innate capacities for compassionate wisdom, as well as the interconnected nature of life. A mindful alignment of your purpose, values and presence becomes the basis for energizing and guiding transformational change.
PURPOSE Honor your purpose by expressing your mission and passions in the world.
VALUES Live your values by actively demonstrating what most matters to you.
PRESENCE Embody presence by nurturing compassionate awareness, from the inside out.
“Drawing from 20+ years of studies in the Vipassana tradition of Buddhism (a.k.a. Insight Meditation), my aim is to honor each client’s unique ways of contributing to the world, and to support them in kindly releasing habits and thought patterns that hinder those capacities.” – Ashley Dahl, MSW, CMT-P

Mindfulness Mentoring Packages
Whether you’re just beginning to explore meditation, deepening your practice, or wanting to apply mindfulness in more areas of life, mentoring can be a wonderful support.
Personal
These packages are for people who would like to:
- Grow a sustainable personal meditation practice
- Refresh (or resurrect) a practice
- Boost emotional & physical resiliency
- Reduce distractibility, strengthen concentration
- Apply mindfulness to challenging situations & relationships
- Embody mindfulness in more facets of life
- Nurture a kinder relationship, and inner dialogue, with oneself
- Reduce stress & effectively regulate emotions
- Weave principles of non-violent communication into difficult conversations
- Support a medical or therapeutic treatment plan with complimentary practices
Health and Wellness Professionals
Designed for therapists, yoga professionals and other wellness providers seeking to:
- Integrate mindfulness meditation into self-care routines
- Mitigate compassion fatigue
- Integrate non-violent communication principles into client and colleague communication
- Partner with clients from a compassionate & embodied presence
- Learn simple mindfulness and meditation techniques that can be weaved into work with individuals and groups
- Respond to professional challenges, rather than react
- Apply mindfulness to business and professional ethics
Leadership
These packages help professionals:
- Grow a personal meditation practice
- Lead from an embodied, compassionate & powerful presence
- Reduce distractibility, strengthen concentration
- Lower stress & effectively regulate emotions
- Release unhelpful habits & conditioning
- Foster steadiness of mind, increasing capacity to respond rather than react
- Cultivate healthy boundaries & work-life balance
- Effectively communicate with compassion & skillfulness
- Integrate principles of non-violent communication into the workplace
- Learn work-friendly mindfulness techniques
- Apply mindfulness to challenging situations, relationships & professional ethics
(Learn more about bringing mindfulness to your place of work here.)
Mentoring can be held in-person in Portland and by phone or video chat anywhere. Single (twenty and fifty-minute) consultations also available. All packages for individuals, and health professionals who serve underserved populations, are available on a sliding scale. Contact Ashley to schedule or learn more.

Heart at Work
Good for business, people & communities.
Based on current trends, Americans on average will spend more than 90,000 hours of their lives working. As many people and employers increasingly appreciate, that is too many hours to take for granted. Mindfulness can help. Heart at Work is a special program bringing mindfulness to businesses, workspaces and leadership teams.
There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.
– Rumi

Founder Ashley Dahl, MSW, CMT-P
A champion of compassionate self-awareness, Ashley possesses a keen ability to infuse mindfulness into daily life and relationships. She brings humor and a presence of calm thoughtfulness as she blends the teachings of wisdom traditions and science with modern culture. Ashley earned her Masters in Social Work from the University of Washington.She has been practicing meditation in the vipassana (insight) tradition for over 20 years. Ashley is an accredited Mindfulness Teacher through the Mindfulness Training Institute and certified through International Mindfulness Teachers Association. She also completed a year-long apprenticeship Teacher Training with Mark Coleman focused on bringing contemplative practices into nature and the wilderness.