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Author Bio Short

Susan Kaiser Greenland is a bestselling author, globally recognized mindfulness innovator, and mentor. Her new book, Real-World Enlightenment: Discovering Ordinary Magic in Everyday Life, showcases her trademark practical yet joyful approach to wisdom practices with 50 mindfulness tools to help navigate the grind of modern everyday life. Drawing from global wisdom traditions and scientific insights, Susan shares her own stories from a lifetime of being a seeker, into digestible strategies for everyone.

Her pioneering work in mindfulness education for both children and adults is showcased in her widely translated books, The Mindful Child and Mindful Games as well as the Inner Kids model for educators. Real-World Enlightenment: Discovering Ordinary Magic in Everyday Life,

Many of her guided meditations and resources are accessible on popular apps like Insight Timer and Ten Percent Happier, as well as at SusanKaiserGreenland.com. Featured in media such as The New York Times and CNN, Susan continues to advance mindfulness globally, as a Mind & Life Fellow and Advisory board member at the Tergar Schools Project in Nepal.

Long bio

Susan is a bestselling author, globally recognized mindfulness innovator, and leader. Her book Real-World Enlightenment: Discovering Ordinary Magic in Everyday Life is a practical guidebook to mindfulness as an antidote for grind of modern life. Drawn from wisdom teachings around the world, and informed by her own lifetime as a seeker and distiller of wisdom, the book provides 50 tools and insights to help readers navigate the chaos of our times, in bite-sized pieces.

Her trademark approach to activity-based mindfulness is featured in her first book, The Mindful Child. Her second book and accompanying card deck, Mindful Games, expanded on her library of activities and offers simple explanations of complex concepts, methods, and themes for children and their caregivers. Mindful Parent, Mindful Child, is an audio collection of brief guided meditations for parents and caregivers. Her books have been translated into 11 languages. Her guided meditations can be found on the Insight Timer app and the Ten Percent Happier app, among and others.

As pioneer in bringing mindfulness to children’s classrooms, Susan developed the Inner Kids model, a hybrid of classical mindfulness and meditation practices adapted for children. One of the first mindfulness programs in education, Inner Kids has played an instrumental role in bringing secular mindfulness to schools and community-based programs since 2001. Research on the Inner Kids elementary school program was published in the Journal of Applied School Psychology.

Susan is a respected speaker and mentor, having appeared widely at prestigious institutions and meditation centers across the United States and abroad. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Tergar Schools Project, which is under the direction of Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, and is a Mind & Life Fellow. Her work has been featured in numerous publications, podcasts, and other media, including The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Lifehacker, The LA Times, Ten Percent Happier, Mindful.org, Los Angeles Review of Books, and many others.

Susan spends time in Los Angeles, CA, and Brooklyn, NY, with her husband. They have two grown children.

Connect with Susan by joining her email list, following her on YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram, or by adding one of her meditation playlists on Spotify (coming soon).

Primary Launch Messages:

Lightness, Joy, & Fulfillment should be for Everyone
Don’t take enlightenment too seriously
The world is full of wisdom that can easily be applied to everyday life.

Talking points

The emotional toll of modern life & what to do
How to preserve attention and presence
Balancing personal mental health and the tragedies going on globally
Finding meaning and fulfillment in modern life
Giving ourselves permission to breathe
What emotional safety looks like and how to create it
Self-compassion and its role in healing and resilience
The Art of Allowing
Don’t tell me to relax: tapping into the nervous system and the power of love.
It’s okay to want to feel better (ch. 3)
Independence versus healthy interdependence
The stories we tell ourselves about [could be multiple subjects]
The myth of perfection in enlightenment
What is multiplicity? The Just-right-for-me rule.
How has attention changed? Insights from a mindfulness educator with over two decades of experience.
NOT taking ourselves too seriously
Lightness/playfulness/ fluidity of identity/nature/warmth