Who We Are
We, the Authentically Mindful team, believe that practicing intentionality, authenticity, and radical honesty is…everything. It is mindfulness. It is a practice! It teaches us as much as we teach others – it is expansive.
We are constantly asking ourselves and each other the same questions: What do I value? What patterns of thought/emotion/behavior are currently influencing me? How can my story be re-framed? This is our story, and we are honored to share it with you.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are. – C.G. Jung
Authentically Mindful Team
Katy Kristoffersen
Co-Founder
Katy is a co-founder of Authentically Mindful. She built the core curriculum and leads the instructional videos and meditations.
Katy is a teacher and coach at heart. She has been supporting people through a coaching lens for over 20 years. She has worked with people across multiple modalities, including music, yoga and mindfulness. Each of these categories has brought unique lessons and perspectives to the table. She loves to grow and learn from wholeheartedly embracing different paths, and then integrating that perspective into her coaching for each individual person.
Katy is inherently collaborative. To embody the Seat of the Teacher, in her vision, is to offer wisdom and receive wisdom from all students. It is about participating in the practice, modeling humility and humanity, and keeping the door firmly open to the light of truth that resides within all people.
Katy has been teaching the style of mindfulness curriculum found on this website in live settings for over 7 years. The experience and feedback of countless participants has been so consistently positive, that www.authenticallymindful.com was created to help make this content available more broadly and give a greater number of people the opportunity to do this work.
Mike Kristoffersen
Co-Founder
Mike is a co-founder of Authentically Mindful and helps manage the vision, content editing, website production, video editing and customer service.
Mike’s professional background consists of analytical and product management roles across a range of industries, including education, technology and insurance. Driven by an inner awareness that these roles were never fulfilling or aligned with his personal values, he walked away from the corporate world to be more present to his family and spend some time focused on his own healing, growth and education. The Authentically Mindful project is an exciting opportunity to focus on building something closer to his heart and he’s excited to see the positive impact it can make.
Mike is passionate about learning and growing across the intersection of various aspects of human life:
– Personal healing and growth
– Understanding the systems, patterns and incentives in our modern society and the associated risks/impacts
– Improving our sense-making abilities in such a complex information ecosystem
Katy and Mike live in Colorado with their 2 kids and 2 cats. They love spending time hiking and trail running in the Rocky Mountains, playing music together and going for long walks having never-ending conversations around all the topics that interest them!