About OUR FOUNDER
Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart
"Modern scientific inquiry reveals how habitual ways of thinking and feeling create neural pathways in the brain. Over time, these paths become so deeply entrenched that our responses to stress become almost automatic: anxiety, fear — even depression. Our nervous systems simply aren't designed to handle such relentless stress and uncertainty."
This breakthrough research, Thérèse says, suggests that ancient meditative arts such as mindfulness and visualiza-tion offer some of the most effective tools to effect change.
Thérèse Jacobs-Stewart has been a practicing psychologist, workshop developer, and international consultant for more than 20 years.
She is the author of Paths are Made by Walking: Practical Steps for Attaining Serenity — a unique synthesis of science and spirit which offers 20 basic practices designed to establish more healthy emotional responses to the stresses of everyday life.
Her clients include the United Nations, Unilever International, American Express Financial Advisors, 3M, and Northwest Airlines. Besides working with corporations, she has counseled individuals, couples, executives and performing artists, as well as professional and Olympic athletes in the United States, Europe, and Asia.
Among others, Thérèse has studied with Zen monks in Nepal, the Dali Lama in India, Christian priests in a Carmelite hermitage in Arizona, and the Sisters of the Cenacle in Chicago.
For the last 10-years, she has worked in organizational consulting, first as the founder of Stewart Consulting Services and later as a Senior Consultant with the Hay Group in Philadelphia. She has designed and written numerous curricula on subjects such as effective leadership, stress related to rapid change, and resiliency.