Dina Aish, EdD

Dina is an educator and mindfulness teacher with a doctorate degree in education and teaches methods and social emotional learning professionally at the college level and to elementary school faculties throughout Los Angeles, CA. She is a founding teacher with the Insight in Schools program and has a passion for supporting teachers with mindfulness and self-compassion. She received certification as a Mindful Self-Compassion teacher from UC San Diego’s Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute and the Center for Mindful Self Compassion.

She is also a graduate of InsightLA’s Facilitator Training Program and received training in mindfulness facilitation from the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center. She has been a team leader in the work of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging and Justice (DEIBJ) at the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion and at InsightLA, where she is co-chair of the Ethics and Reconciliation Council. She teaches mindfulness and compassion courses at universities, public schools, insight and wellness centers internationally, spaces for the unhoused, NGOs supporting refugees, and for other organizations as well as individuals privately. You can contact her at dinaaish@gmail.com.