Atabey Sánchez-Haiman is a biologist, artist, and mindfulness-based intervention teacher whose work integrates creative practice, scientific training, and trauma-sensitive mindfulness education. Her Giraffes and Robots Pop Art & Mindfulness Studio offers art, design, and mindfulness-informed consultations.
Atabey is trained to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR, Brown University), Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC, Center for Mindful Self-Compassion), Mindfulness for Life (MBCT-L, Oxford Mindfulness Foundation), and Deeper Mindfulness (Oxford Mindfulness Foundation). She facilitates live weekly online meetings at Mindshift Recovery and Frazzled (UK), where she offers mindfulness practices and supports spaces that allow for deep listening, collective healing and learning. She is part of the facilitation team at the Greater Good Science Center’s Educators Program, exploring the science of well-being in a supportive community of educators from around the world. She also teaches Mindfulness Based Ethical Living (MBEL) and is part of the MBEL curriculum and teacher training team.
Puerto Rican and Spanish-speaking, Atabey is interested in cultivating cultural humility and contributing to creating spaces where racialized communities can disentangle colonial narratives about race, worth and belonging through art, mindfulness, neuroscience, ethics, and habit change. Atabey sees mindfulness as an active, compassionate action that can transform cultures from being dominated by greed and hatred, and instead turning toward love and flourishing, allowing people to live more meaningful, peaceful and value-aligned lives.