Team Workshops

Help your team reduce stress and increase resilience with a customized mindfulness workshop, presentation, or guided meditation

Want to make a bigger impact in your community? Start with your teams’ well-being.

Nonprofits love talking about the importance of building capacity and sustainability in their work. But what about the actual human beings doing the work?

Collective change starts with inner change. If you want to build your organization’s capacity to externally fulfill your mission, you need to build your team's internal capacity for resilience, compassion, and calm.

While we are trying our best to dismantle systems of injustice, our teams are being dismantled by an epidemic of burnout:

  • At least half of nonprofit employees are feeling burned out (Stanford Social Innovation Review)

  • Employees experiencing burnout are 2.6 times more likely to be actively looking for a new job (Gallup)

  • 95% of human resource leaders admit employee burnout is sabotaging workforce retention (UKG)

  • Low employee engagement costs U.S. companies $450-500 billion each year in lost productivity (Gallup)

  • Most importantly, burnout can be life-threatening, and many people don’t know they are experiencing it

Here's the good news: mindfulness is a science-backed tool that relieves stress and burnout, and it doesn’t take extra time to apply this skill to your work and life.

Imagine a workplace where:

  • Your team is less stressed, and they have the energy and motivation to offer creative ideas for tackling complex challenges

  • Resilience becomes second nature, allowing individuals to bounce back from setbacks with confidence

  • Curiosity and empathy deepens, fostering stronger connections across your team and the communities you serve

  • A calmer, more focused team is working more effectively and collaboratively, maximizing the impact of every dollar and every hour invested in your cause

Client Love for Workshops

  • "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

  • "We had a great turnout for the workshop, and I'm confident that all our participants left with a greater sense of mindfulness and meditation. I know I did! 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

  • "It was wonderful to have Megan educate us on this topic and to listen to other’s viewpoints in the group. Everything made sense and was very clear and constructive. I'm looking forward to arranging another workshop with her in the future.”

    -Angel Ortiz

  • "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!”

  • “The workshop helped me identify that what I am feeling currently is burnout and I can take steps to counteract it. I think that after the pandemic it's easy to say what I'm feeling is not too bad or not burnout since it's not as bad as that moment in time. But recognizing that I can still have burnout now is important to help me improve how I'm feeling.”

  • "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

  • "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

  • "When our new foundation needed someone to lead our first workshop offering, I knew I wanted to collaborate with Megan. Her virtual workshop created such a comfortable and supportive space for healing. What stood out was how smoothly everything ran, from the way she engaged participants in the chat to the guided meditation. Megan's willingness to share her own story was a big plus. She's amazing!"

    -Grace Bishara, Founder/ President at Becoming Grace Foundation

Team Workshop:

Reset & Recharge with Mindfulness

Pause, breathe, and recharge + learn how to easily practice mindfulness and meditation in an interactive workshop.

By the end of this workshop, your team will

  • Learn the most common myths about mindfulness and meditation (hint: it's not about turning off your thoughts)

  • Experience a relaxing guided meditation and two micropractices to release stress and center yourself in under a minute

  • Find out how to easily make mindfulness something you actually do, and not just something you know helps

  • Connect and share reflections with your peers in small groups

  • Leave with simple tools that will boost your self-awareness, sharpen your focus, and enhance your overall well-being—both at work and in life

Team Workshop:

A Mindful Approach to Navigating Nonprofit Burnout

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, your team will

  • Understand what burnout is, how to recognize the signs, and the deeper reasons why we burn out in nonprofits

  • Clarify where you might be on the burnout to thriving spectrum and what you can do about it

  • Learn what mindfulness means and why it’s a superpower

  • Experience a calming guided meditation and two micropractices that help you deal with overwhelm in the moment

  • Walk away with tangible techniques to alleviate stress and burnout

Team Workshop:

Meditate & Create: A Mindful Art Experience

Offered in partnership with artist and speaker, Ashley Fluellen

By the end of this workshop, your team will

  • Practice resisting perfectionism by tapping into creativity—building space for abstract-thinking, stress-reduction, and artistic collaboration.

  • Develop divergent thinking skills while exploring mindfulness and relaxation techniques to release stress and cultivate calm.

  • Explore your relationship to rest and play by creating a piece of textured artwork that doesn’t rely on a preconceived plan.

  • Experiment with the plaster medium, using tools to add texture and get creative with color.

  • By striving for zero, you can drop into a state of flow and invite in deep reflection.

Custom mindful art workshops are offered virtually and in the Chicagoland area.

Mindful Art Workshop Testimonials

  • "Working with Ashley and Megan as hosts made organizing this workshop such a breeze—it was fun to think about creative ideas and innovative opportunities! They both helped me stay on track with the planning details, while not feeling overwhelmed by the tasks. From the start, they made the process so seamless that it was easy to participate in the experience and relax from being in host mode. Megan and Ashley's ability to set the tone and guide the flow of the workshop was incredible. The meditations Megan led helped everyone, including me, release stress and get into the right headspace to explore creativity without any pressure. The way the activities were structured made it easy for people to create while enjoying the opportunity to experiment, connect, and release."

    -Elizabeth Berkeley, Director of Chicago Grows Food

  • "What I loved most was how effortless everything felt. I got to engage in the mindfulness exercises, stretch my own abstract-thinking muscles, and collaborate with the group—all without worrying about hosting. This workshop was everything I hoped it would be and more, and I couldn’t have done it without Ashley and Megan. I'm grateful they made the process so smooth and created such an energizing, judgment-free space for everyone to explore, relax, and create!"

    -Elizabeth Berkeley, Director of Chicago Grows Food

  • "I appreciated the intentionality around building community and I really loved the meditation. As an introverted-leaning person I felt comfortable to engage and disengage whenever I needed. There were plenty of folks to talk with and plenty of art and activities to enjoy. I felt very committed to the process of play and creating something, anything. Blending, blobbing, spreading, scratching, scraping, all of the tactile play helped me to feel alive in the creation <3 which is what I long for in my art but often feel much too focused on outcome."

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  • "Great collaboration! The combination of art and meditation was so good! Loved this event."

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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 bringing mindfulness into your workplace, you’re giving your team space to connect and recharge + life-long tools to do their best work without burning out.

Buckle up for personal insights, inspiration, and actionable advice to transform your teams’ 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.

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.

Interested in Booking Megan?

Custom workshops, presentations, and meditations are available both virtually and in-person

  • For in-person sessions, I serve the Chicagoland area and offer some travel options

  • Schedule a 30-min chat to get started

  • You’ll receive a proposal and pricing for your personalized event

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.