Saleema Hutchison

Saleema has more than 20 years of experience as a community project coordinator and as an accomplice in socially transformative projects. A social worker and community organizer by training, she also holds a master's degree in environmental science from the Université du Québec à Montréal. Her practice is inspired by her experiences in non-formal education, popular education and environmental education. 

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She is also involved in the development of a direct intervention practice with people suffering from persistent pain. Saleema holds a graduate certificate in chronic pain management from McGill University and is currently completing a master's degree in social work at UQAM. Her master's project explores the use of mindfulness-based interventions in social intervention and in the context of chronic pain management.

 

Her career has been punctuated by collaborations with multiple organizations such as Communagir, the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montréal (CHUM), The Nature Conservancy of Quebec (CNC), the Montreal Urban Ecology Centre (CEUM), Canada World Youth (CWY) and the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Education. 

 

She is trained as a group facilitator for the Neuronova Centre's Mindfulness-Based Chronic Pain Management program and is an accredited forest therapy guide with The Association for Nature and Forest Therapy and a member of the Association des Guides Shinrin Yoku du Québec.