​Insight Meditation Australia Teacher

Timothea Goddard

There is only one question: how to love this world.
Mary Oliver

Vipassana Insight Meditation, contemporary mindfulness explorations and applications in health and society.
Timothea Goddard (Tim) has been practicing yoga and meditation (in the Vipassana tradition) since her early twenties, having also spent some years practicing Zen and Aikido intensively. She sees meditation as a pragmatic way of helping people to get to know their own minds, recognize their own basic goodness - in terms of clarity, courage and wisdom – and how to bring this goodness into the world.   She has worked in private practice for 40 years as a developmental psychotherapist having trained in humanistic, psychodynamic, body-based and systemic ways of exploring challenges in life and relationships.

She has been very involved in bringing Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and associated programs to Australia over the past 22 years.  She is founding director of Openground – an Australia-wide charity offering MBSR and related mindfulness programs, workshops and retreats, and of the Mindfulness Training Institute – Australia and New Zealand – a not-for-profit which offers teacher training and Vipassana retreats.
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She is lucky to spend half her time in Queensland (on Facing Island) and half in Sydney.  

Further information:
​Openground
​Mindfulness Training Institute Australia New Zealand

Email: [email protected]