Dr. Jennifer Clifden intersects the science and soul of being well and thriving in heart-centered, healing/ helping professions. Jen is the founder of Present Well-Being LLC, and she creates evidence-based curriculum and experiences designed to systematically stoke human-service caregiver mental health, emotional agility, and soul resilience. Dr. Clifden’s keynotes, trainings, courses, and yoga retreats focus on research-based preventative and restorative practices that treat and heal soul sickness– burnout, compassion fatigue, moral injury, and sacrifice syndrome. Jen researches and teaches a strategic process for “burning in” to one’s calling through bringing more of one’s soul into their role. She draws on 26 years collective experience as a public-school teacher, university teacher educator, program administrator for the Minnesota Grow Your Own Teachers program at the University of Minnesota, mindfulness and yoga teacher, and mother of a 10th grader and twin 9th graders to raise awareness of the critical importance of caregiver soul health in heart-based callings to serve.

Areas of Expertise: Youth Educator and Caregiver burnout, compassion fatigue and moral injury prevention, healing and restoration practices, Yoga/mindful movement for soothing and rejuvenating the mindbodysoul of the caregiver, Soul Health in human-service professions.