Mindful Educators

Carin Winter – CEO, Founder & President

Carin Winter founded Mission Be, Mindful Education in 2013 and had brought their program to hundreds of schools in New York and California, trained thousands of educators and impacted over 148,000 students. Carin is a Licensed Master Social Worker, completing graduate school with the highest honors, Summa Cum Laude from Adelphi University. She has extensive clinical experience working with youth in schools, foster care and the juvenile justice system.

Carin founded and maintained Healing Arts of the South Shore, a private counseling and healing practice for over a decade, as well as Embrace Yoga Studio in NY for eight years. She also spent ten years as a school social worker in New York specializing in substance abuse. Carin co-chaired the Islip Drug Education and Awareness Task Force for 10 years combating substance abuse and the heroin epidemic on Long Island.

Since 2015, she has been a committee leader with the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Social Movement in Sandy Hook, CT. She is also an advisory member to GIFT, the Global Investment Foundation for Tomorrow and a member of the advisory board at Global Mana. She is a speaker for Safe and Sound Schools founded in Sandy Hook, CT.

Carin has presented at: The White House, The Palo Alto VA Hospital, Singularity, Facebook, Tiger 21, Americorp, CIIS, The NY Open Center, The Omega Institute, Wisdom 2.0, the Assemblage, Santa Clara University, Menlo College, St. Joseph’s College and Long Island University. She has also served as a substitute teacher and guest lecturer at Stanford University.

Marnie Herlands, Mission Be, Mindful Educator

Received her Master’s degree in Art Therapy/Counseling and her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts/Photography. Marnie continued on to become an ATR-BC and licensed creative arts therapist in New York. She has continued to pursue her passion of aiding individuals in building adaptive coping skills utilizing the art process as a forum for healing and self-expression. Over the past three years, Marnie became drawn to and witnessed the benefits of yoga and a range of expressive modalities, as well as mindfulness meditation. She is inspired by both the practice and teaching yoga and hopes to spread the powerful benefits of mind-body practices to others.

Marnie has worked with many ages ranging from children and adolescents to senior adults and finds that people are all connected in their innate capacity to love and be loved, and in their desire to be seen and heard. Marnie is so excited to join the Mission Be team and to guide individuals in experiencing the benefits of mindfulness. Marnie has also facilitated individual art therapy sessions and groups for over five years. Most recently, she leads virtual community art classes and co-facilitates an art therapy/caregiver support groups for individuals living with memory impairment and their families.

Some of Marnie’s personal interests include photography, reading, yoga, art, traveling, her love for dogs and taking relaxing walks in nature. Marnie is motivated to live more mindfully in all aspects of her life, as she is beginning this new journey as a Mission Be, Mindful Educator.

Jodi Cameron, Mission Be, Mindful Yoga Teacher

Jodi Cameron has been teaching mindfulness and yoga to children and adults since 2002, and has taken many trainings and workshops with numerous teachers to deepen her understanding over the last 20 years. Jodi has had a daily meditation practice of her own for many years and understands how powerful these tools can be in our daily lives and is passionate about sharing this gift with others, especially children.

Also a devoted mother of two, Jodi has had the opportunity to volunteer in her children’s schools as class mother, which allowed her to work closely with many children and teach yoga during gym to students, which she loved. Jodi has worked with many summer day camps teaching mindfulness and yoga to children and has been the special needs yoga teacher for Islip Septa since 2018.

Jodi’s 20 years of teaching has allowed her to see first hand the power of mindfulness and she is excited to share the practice with students. Jodi is dedicated to supporting children and helping them find their greatest potential through regulating emotions, non judgment and the power of the mind/body/spirit connection. Jodi believes deeply in Mission Be’s goals and is proud to be a member of the team!