Mirjam Hartkamp

MH @ Javorie, 2016

Mirjam Hartkamp

is co-founder & director of IMI association (Insight Meditation Investigations) and meditation teacher with the Dutch Insight Meditation Society (SIM). She is meditation teacher in residence of the prestigious Dutch Comenius Institute, and holds yearly international several vipassana-based mindfulness retreats, also in collaborating with prof. Henk Barendregt.  Mirjam received her training in art-, and psychotherapy at Leiden University of Applied Science and the Dutch Academy for Psychotherapy. In addition, she studied Buddhist philosophy at University of Amsterdam and holds a master degree in Cognitive science. Mirjam is currently a PhD fellow at La Sapienza University of Rome, finishing doctoral research on the effects of meditation and is a reviewer for the Springer Journal of Mindfulness. In her teachings Mirjam emphasizes compassion and loving kindness, as a way to arrive to a state where we can be at ease and at peace with ourselves, in our relations and with life in general.