Kathy Flaminio, MSW, LGSW, E-RYT-200
Founder and CEO, movemindfully

Kathy Flaminio is the founder of movemindfully®, a Minnesota-based  training and consulting company launched in 2009 that brings the science of mindfulness, movement, and social-emotional learning into educational, therapeutic, and home environments. She also is the creator of movemindfully trainings, workshops, products, and curricula that teach trauma-responsive, mind-body practices for self-regulation, focus, and overall well-being.

Flaminio has trained more than 50,000 professionals in mindfulness, movement, and social-emotional skills strategies, and partnered with Minnesota’s M Health Fairview Masonic Children’s Hospital and United Hospital to provide trauma-responsive practices to their child/adolescent and adult mental health units.  Flaminio co-authored Moving Mountains: An Integrative Manual to Help Youth with Intensity, Reactivity and Anxiety and created the Teen Resiliency Program curriculum in partnership with Dr. Henry Emmons and Dr. Timothy Culbert, founders of Minneapolis-based Partners in Resilience, now Partners in Mental Health.

With a master’s degree in social work, Flaminio has more than 20 years of experience in regular and special education and has taught mindfulness, movement , and social-emotional learning as an adjunct faculty member for Saint Mary’s University in Winona, Minn.  Flaminio has been a keynote speaker and presenter for more than 100 national conferences on topics that have included trauma-responsive mind-body practices for staff and youth, adult wellbeing, and mind-body practices for anxiety and sleep.