Personal informations

Alessandra Plesi, MA
Via Centofanti 22/24, 56011 Calci (Pi) Italy
Phone: +39 328 1237090
Email: alessandra.plesi@gmail.com
Skype: aleplesi
Date of birth: 03/24/1971
Nationality: Italian

Position held

From 2009 to today

I work as a freelancer with people and groups, I teach Mindfulness and Focusing at companies, associations and schools:

  • Graduated in Psychology;

  • Senior instructor of mindfulness based protocols (MBSR, according to the model of Jon Kabat Zinn);

  • Certified Focusing Trainer by The International Focusing Institute, New York;

  • MB-EAT QUALIFIED INSTRUCTOR trained by with Mindful Eating Institute training;

  • Mindful Educator trained by Mindful Schools;

  • Professional mindfulness Counselor (Assocounseling A1087-2014)

Main projects

2022
Mindfulness and resilience with Modus Maris Srl, courses for ABB Robotics.

2021
Mindfulness, agency skills and Job Crafting, with Modus Maris Srl, courses for ABB Robotics and Sperlari.

Mindfulness for stress reduction (MBSR), with Modus Maris Srl, courses for ABB Robotics and Sperlari.

2020
Mindfulness groups for Addictions, A.USL of Florence.

2019
Mindfulness courses for the Municipality of Peccioli, Peccioliper Foundation, Belvedere SpA; primary school of Ponte a Elsa (Fi).

From 2009 to 2018
MBSR and Advanced Mindfulness Groups at the A.USL Toscana Centro at Empoli Hospital (Fi), UOC Psychiatry (project aimed at psychiatrists, psychologists, educators and nurses), Palliative Care, Intensive Care.

2016
Mindfulness course for the college of nurses of Prato (IPAVSI).

2014
Mindfulness courses at the Don Bosco Prison (Pisa).

Previous experience

From 2009 to 2011
Project Manager at Spad Srl (Technological Pole of Navacchio, Pisa)

From 2001 to 2009
Account manager at Metaware SpA (Pisa)

Education and training

2022
Yoga training with Kavaalya school, India.

2021
Master's degree in Cognitive processes and technologies, Technologies of clinical support to the person at Uninettuno University, Rome. Thesis on Mindfulness and addiction treatment. Score 110/110 cum laude.

2020
Training in the Job Crafting protocol, for the development of proactivity and personal strengths in the workplace, with Modus Maris Srl

2019
Mindful Schools protocol training, Mindful educators essentials, for children and adolescents (from 3 to 17 years old)

2018
Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training (MB-EAT, Kristeller & Hallett, 1999; Kristeller & Wolver, 2011), with Andrea Lieberstein of the Mindful Eating Trainint Institute.

2013 – 2015
Training as an MBSR teacher with the official and original program of The Oasis Institute for Mindfulness-based Professional Education and Training of the University of Massachusetts, associated teacher with Motus Mundi (Padua)

2013
Certified Trainer in Focusing and Focusing for Children The Focusing Institute (New York)

2011
Senior teacher of MBSR protocols Mindfulness Studies Center (Rome)

2009
Mindfulness Counselor enrolled in Assocounseling Graduated with the Mindfulness Project School (Milan) Internship carried out at the USL Company of Empoli, UOC Psychiatry, as leader of mindfulness-based practices in a psychoeducational group for suicide prevention.

2008
Master in corporate governance University of Pisa, Faculty of Political Sciences

1996
Degree in Modern Foreign Languages ​​and Literatures University of Pisa, Faculty of Letters 110/110 cum laude.