Lisa Kim, MA, is on a lifelong path of personal inquiry about what it means to be well and is passionate about helping others to live with more compassion, ease, love, joy, and magic! She has a creative and adventurous spirit, has lived and traveled abroad, and spends much of her free time on art, music, and being active out in nature.

She is a certified Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) teacher through UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness and a trained teacher of Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities (SCHC). She co-developed an 8-week course titled In this Body: An Embodied Approach to Awareness Practices and is trained to teach the Mindful Behavior Change (MBC) course developed at the CHA Center for Mindfulness and Compassion (CMC). 

Lisa earned a certificate on health and nutrition from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) and is a Kripalu certified yoga instructor. She is also a certified desire and pleasure embodiment coach through VITA™ Coaching

Lisa directed programs and community engagement for the CHA Center for Mindfulness and Compassion from 2018 to 2023. Prior to joining the Center, she was the Director of Programs and Engagement for the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL), Director of Eastern Region for the National Teen Leadership Program(NTLP), and an English Instructor at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. She also worked in community relations at WGBH and conference coordination and circulation management at Pegasus Communications, Inc. She earned her Master’s in English with a concentration in creative writing.