Deborah Eden Tull, founder of Mindful Living Revolution, teaches how to integrate compassionate awareness into every aspect of our lives. She’s a Zen meditation and mindfulness teacher, public speaker, author, activist, and sustainability educator. She trained for seven years as a Buddhist monk at a silent Zen monastery in Northern California, and has been traveling to, living in, or teaching about conscious, sustainable communities internationally for the last 25 years. She currently resides in the mountains of western North Carolina and offers retreats, workshops, and consultations nationally.

She followed up her first book, The Natural Kitchen: Your Guide for the Sustainable Food Revolution, with Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Ourselves, Each Other, and the Planet. Eden teaches both Zen meditation and mindfulness, and has worked with a wide range of audiences, from dharma students and people wanting to cultivate more compassion in their lives, to concerned citizens and activists, to parents, to schools and corporations, and to special populations such as inner-city youth and people who are incarcerated.

She has been an organic gardener and farmer for many years, including at places such as Green Gulch Farm in Marin County, California, Arcosanti in the Arizona desert, the Zen Buddhist monastery where she trained, and in urban gardens in the San Francisco Bay area and in Los Angeles. She’s certified in Permaculture Design and biointensive organic gardening.

Eden is also a student and practitioner of shamanism and a facilitator of the Work That Reconnects as created by eco-philosopher Joanna Macy. She’s a UCLA-certified Mindfulness Facilitator and has offered workshops through UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center since 2012.