Events

Release stress and practice science-backed burnout prevention techniques for even the busiest of schedules

Reset & Recharge:
Virtual Mindfulness Workshop for Changemakers

Saturday, February 8, 2025
11am-1pm central

Working in nonprofits doesn’t need to come hand in hand with burnout. But increasingly, it does. How can we sustainably care for ourselves while caring for others?

By the end of this workshop, you will

  • Gain simple tools that will help you prevent burnout, increase your focus, and enhance your overall happiness and well-being

  • Practice a relaxing 10-minute guided meditation to release stress

  • Learn easy micropractices to center yourself in under a minute

  • Discover the most common myths about mindfulness and meditation

  • Connect and share reflections in 1:1 breakout rooms


Sliding scale options from $10-$40 to make this event as accessible as possible. Choose what works for you.

A recording will be sent to everyone who registers within 24 hours after the event.

Workshop Testimonials

  • "I thought it was a good balance of teaching and doing. The breakouts were great and really let you dig into things with just a couple of people. The ah-ha moment was really the practice meditation - I was surprised by how effective it was, how deep I got lost in the moment and how I felt afterwards."

    -Dan Drucker

  • "Megan was fantastic! This mindfulness workshop aligns perfectly with some challenges we’ve been tackling at my place of employment. It was really insightful, and I appreciated the focus on mindfulness and grounding."

    -Torrance Dixon

  • "Megan's mindfulness workshop allowed my team to take a minute to fully process what it means to be in a fast-moving, non-profit work environment. We came away from the workshop with tangible, easy tools to combat burnout. I received very positive feedback from the team; it was their favorite part of the retreat! I appreciated Megan’s pace, her calm, cool, collected demeanor, and the way she brought together the room."

    -Katie Burke, Executive Director, Customized & Faculty-Led Programs at IES Abroad

  • "As a result of the workshop, I personally am conducting more deep breathing sessions when I receive that 'trigger' email and am giving people more grace and latitude. Megan was supportive, collaborative, empathetic, and knowledgeable throughout the process; you can tell she is skilled in delivering mindfulness content and is an expert in the field. Please consider Megan for your next team retreat; you won't regret it!"

    -Katie Burke, Executive Director, Customized & Faculty-Led Programs at IES Abroad

  • "I appreciated discovering that I wasn't the only one trying to be educated about this topic. It was helpful to see how others also struggle to be mindful or to meditate.  Once I understood how simple and quick we could begin to be more mindful it gave me an "ah-ha" moment because before I thought this was something that took days or longer to reach. Yet, even in the smallest moments in time we have opportunity."

    -Angel Ortiz

  • "Megan is an outstanding facilitator, mentor and coach. She is a uniquely graceful and powerful leader, with profound intelligence and integrity. Megan communicates in a warm and gentle style, with a sweet sense of humor that lightens our often challenging work. I highly recommend working with Megan. She is truly a gift."

    -Olivia Teter, Head of Innovation at Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

  • "My favorite part of Megan’s Mindfulness and Meditation Workshop was the guided meditation. The mindful stretching we did reminded me that listening to your body is more effective when you actually slow down and focus on it, even if you're not really sure how to do that."

    -Britt-Marie, Coach at Orange Theory Fitness

  • “Loved this session and would strongly recommend Megan to my friends at other organizations. I experienced strong burnout from 2020-2021 (with a different org), and a lot of what Megan shared really resonated with me. The session definitely made me want to research mindfulness and meditation so that I can learn techniques to incorporate into my personal life!”

  • “I am grateful to have attended a workshop led by Megan about the intersection of mindfulness and DEI. The somatic tools and techniques we discussed (and practiced!) have been helpful to me personally and I think are critical to preventing burnout and sustaining our commitment to radically transform ourselves and our society. I look forward to bringing these practices to my team and organization.”

    -Blair Janis

  • "Megan has a serene presence that made me feel comfortable, calm, and cared for. She is enthusiastic, compassionate, energetic, and her unrelenting kindness came through the screen so vividly."

Join Our Free Mindfulness Community for Changemakers

Next live event:

January 13, 2025 from 5:30-6:30pm central

I welcome you to melt stress and relax with my guided meditations.

Follow me and join our Mindfulness Community for Changemaker events on the free app Insight Timer.

Reset & Recharge with Mindfulness

In-person workshop at
Yogaview Chicago

Saturday, January 25, 2025
2:00-4:00pm central

As the new year begins, take a moment to pause, breathe, and recharge. This interactive experience will help you reclaim rest and cultivate calm—right when you need it most.

Learn more and reserve your spot (space is limited) by selecting January 25 under “find a class” to learn more and book the workshop.

Megan Whitney

Megan helps changemakers navigate burnout through 1/1 coaching, speaking, and live events on Insight Timer. Her work offers you mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and self-compassion tools to release stress and cultivate calm.

She has dedicated her 18-year career to serving in nonprofits. Since burning out a decade ago, her mission has been preventing the same exhaustion for other nonprofit workers.

Megan offers expertise in making mindfulness accessible and creating cultures of collective care in the workplace. She founded a 400+ person Mindfulness Community for the largest hunger-relief nonprofit, taught mindful leadership skills to hundreds of food bankers, and sparked a ripple effect of mindful micropractices being embedded into many U.S. nonprofits.

In Megan’s day job, she has spent the past eight years fighting hunger as a fundraiser, consultant, and certified Search Inside Yourself organizational teacher.

Want to make a bigger impact in your community, changemaker? Start with your own well-being.

Collective change starts with inner change. If we want to sustainably make a difference in the world, each of us needs to build our own internal capacity for resilience, compassion, and calm.

Mindfulness is a free, evidence-based tool that relieves stress and burnout

And it doesn’t take extra time to apply this transformative skill to your work and life.

Our chaotic nonprofit work environments and the inequitable systems we’re trying to disrupt (the stressors) aren’t the only things that lead to burnout.

Our physical and emotional energy is running on empty because most of us were never taught how to manage the stress itself.

By participating in a mindfulness workshop, you’re giving yourself space to recharge + life-long tools to do your best work without burning out.

Buckle up for personal insights, inspiration, and actionable advice to transform your approach to work and well-being.

Whether you’re new to mindfulness or have been practicing it for years, experience simple tools to relax and navigate burnout without adding more exhausting things you “should” do.

You didn’t sign up for burnout when you signed onto nonprofit work, but I know it can feel that way.

Preventing and recovering from burnout is 100% possible.

Speaking and Media

Dive into mindfulness and burnout preventions strategies through my podcast appearances, interviews, and writing.