About the Facilitator

Catherine Flaxman, M.A., M.F.T., is a psychotherapist, writer, screenwriter and meditation teacher. In the early 70’s she cofounded one of the first teaching collectives to pioneer a holistic approach to eastern spirituality and western psychology and to create mind-body therapies commonly practiced today. She works with individuals, couples and groups, and trained therapists working toward advanced degrees. She maintains a private practice in Mill Valley CA.

Catherine has sold two screenplays (including a feature film to Paramount) and received two Individual Artist’s Grants from the Marin Arts Council (for fiction and for screenwriting). She enjoys creating and facilitating writing workshops that combine her skills in the creative, interactive, therapeutic and meditative arts. She has conducted numerous workshops at Book Passage, in Corte Madera CA, at The O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley, at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA and led a weekly mindfulness meditation group in Mill Valley for five years.