Diane Hetrick has been studying and practicing in the areas of mind body medicine, mindfulness, resilience, and compassion cultivation most of her adult life.  Her many years of experience working with patients with chronic pain and/or illnesses lead her to explore various somatic and movement practices and to explore the area of mindfulness to help people find more ease and wellbeing in their lives.  She has increasingly turned her focus of teaching to helping people become more aware of how to access their natural compassion, and to provide them with tools and information to cultivate resilience and wellbeing as an antidote to empathic fatigue and burnout, as well as working with those who have experienced trauma.

She completed the Certificate in Mindfulness Facilitation training through the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center (MARC) at UCLA

She also completed two trainings offered through the Center for Compassion, Altruism, Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford, becoming a Certified Compassion Cultivation Training Teacher, and a Certified Ambassador of the Applied Compassion Training program. She completed a year-long training with David Treleaven on Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness.

Most recently she has enthusiastically embraced the dyad practice offered through the Humanize program. Seeing the deep need in our world for connection and compassion, Diane is planning to offer the Humanize Dyad training to folks in a variety of settings, including for incarcerated people.

Diane lives in community, with her husband and 23 other households, with folks ranging in age from 0 to 80 years old, and enjoys being outdoors whenever she can, and spending time with family and friends.