About Patricia Kathryn Galaczy
I care deeply about what it means to have a healthy human mind in stressful times.
For twenty-five years I’ve been working at the intersection of leadership development and mindfulness training. What that means is that I help leaders—at all levels—lead by developing healthy mind states.
“Patricia leads and teaches from a place of experience, presence, and passion”
Director of The Art of Dialogue and Associate Faculty with Royal Roads University, Patricia is a dyanmic and engaging Leadership Educator specializing in Mindfulness, Resilience, and Organizational Effectiveness.
For the past 25 years Patricia has designed and delivered customized, face-to-face, and virtual Leadership Development training, keynote presentations, and retreat for all levels of leadership. She is honoured and humbled to work and live on Songhees/Lək Q ʷəŋən Land.
An organizational expert with an academic background in Psychology and Business andGraduate degree in Industrial Relations from Queen’s University, Patricia draws upon herpassion for leadership development & mindfulness, along with her direct organizational experience to create original, evidence-based, customized training, facilitation, keynote presentations and retreats.
After working in Human Resource Management and Labour Relations in both private and public sectors – including auto manufacturing, public service & biotech – Patricia began teaching Leadership and Management with B.C.I.T’s School of Business in 2000 and has since dedicated herself to creating and delivering relevant and authentic Leadership Education with a focus on cultivating healthy minds and healthy organizations.
As Associate Faculty with the Justice Institute of British Columbia’s Centre for Leadership, Patricia spent 15 years designing and delivering original core Leadership curriculum for the successful Foundations of Effective Management and Leadership program, now the Certificate in Applied Leadership.
Patricia has over two decades of mindfulness meditation experience and is a certified MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) Instructor by the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society, University of Massachusetts Medical School. As a mindfulness meditation teacher, she is committed to teaching from her direct experience working with her own mind, accumulated through over 20 years of daily practice, 40+ long silent mindfulness meditation retreats, a 3-month silent meditation retreat in 2021.
In September of 2016 Patricia was awarded the Kelly Outstanding Teaching Award from Royal Roads University for outstanding workshop facilitation.
I have spent the last 25 years facilitating groups with a focus on leadership and mindfulness. Consistently, I am amazed by what can emerge when a group is brought together with intention in a safe and supportive container.
With direct experience and deep understanding of organizations, leadership, and mindfulness, Patricia makes ‘mindfulness at work’ accessible, practical, and impactful.
