About Beth L. Evard
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything,
but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
— Helen Keller
Beth Evard founded Princeton Insight Meditation, where she teaches insight meditation and mindful-living, and supports people who want to receive from and give more to life. She has guided major corporations to manage change more successfully, supported leaders in the human side of their jobs, and helped employees resolve conflicts. Earlier, she practiced as a speech pathologist and taught learning-challenged children. Beth is the co-author of Managing Business Change for Dummies.
Leadership Coaching
The best description of Beth’s impact with her business clients came in this e-mail from an executive at a major financial institution.
“I hate boiling things down to a few sentences, as you [Beth] have done so much over the years. Here it goes:
- You have acted as an independent, non-judgmental sounding board for discussing leadership, organizational, and business relationship issues.
- You have shared with me and taught me how to use new tools (e.g., mind maps) that allow me to think of business issues in new ways.
- You have shared many different techniques to increase self-awareness and how to respond better to “fight/flight” instincts, and those techniques ultimately have helped me make more effective and timely decisions.
The end result is that I have become more skilled at leading change — both at the organizational and relationship level.”
Meditation and Mindful-Life Coaching
From her meditation experiences, Beth learned that our relationships with ourselves, others, and the world around – including all life’s joys and sorrows – filter through the mind. As the mind develops greater focus, mindfulness, and insight, we respond to life more wisely and skillfully. And we create greater happiness – for ourselves and others.
Beth began meditating in 1990, and in 1995 she started attending silent Vipassana (Insight) meditation retreats, where she would meditate for about 15 hours a day – which included sitting meditation, walking meditation, eating meditation and work meditation. She has attended retreats that have lasted from one week to two months.
A client who has worked with Beth summarizes their relationshp and its benefits this way:
“Beth has demonstrated herself to be both a warm, caring individual and highly knowledgeable when it comes to behavior and the physiology of the human brain. In both of her groups where I have been a participant, she has provided a protective, nurturing environment where people feel free to express themselves and encourages us to mutually support one another. Beth makes herself available before and after the meditation sessions for one-on-one discussions and has even offered to speak to her students via the phone or email. On a more personal note, my relationship with Beth has helped me on a much deeper level. The last few years of my life have been extremely stressful in which I have felt overwhelmed, unloved, and filled with feelings of hopelessness. Beth has provided me with guidance and some tools which I can use to begin to reverse these negative emotions and become more acceptant of my situation. Just knowing that she cares on a personal level about my wellbeing and is there to provide guidance, assistance and merely lend an ear is invaluable.”
As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being
able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age –
as in being able to remake ourselves.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For more detail of Beth’s qualifications and experience, please click here.
