Angelike Dexter

Trained by Susan Kaiser Greenland (author of “The Mindful Child” and “Mindful Games”) in 2013 and a long-time member of the Inner Kids teacher group, Angelike teaches mindful and compassionate awareness to children, parents, teachers, and families through public and private schools as well as other community organizations.

Angelike is a Certified Mindful Self Compassion (MSC) teacher (trained in and teaching MSC since 2015) and a graduate of the inaugural MSC for teens, “Making Friends With Yourself (MFY)” teacher training in 2016, and has regularly taught series of or skills from both courses, including through Mindful USC, the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion’s Circles of Practice, and through Insight LA, where she graduated from Insight LA’s Third Facilitators Training in 2018. Additionally, she deeply enjoys helping parents create intentional vision around and compassionate strategies for their families, through “Heartful” Parenting classes and workshops. Angelike has trained extensively in trauma-informed mindfulness practices and diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, in particular in relation to holding mindfulness/compassion group spaces. In her personal practice, she is a student of Dza Kilung Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist teacher and lineage holder in the Longchen Nyingtik lineage and the author of “A Relaxed Mind.” A former attorney, Angelike continually delights in her current life as a mindfulness and compassion teacher!