Bio
Mecquel is a somatic educator and researcher investigating the intersections of interoception, psychology, embodied cognition, mindfulness, and movement and their applications within medicine, education, leadership, and design. Her curricula include embodied experiences to cultivate well-being, self-efficacy, resilience, creativity, collaboration, empathy, and problem-solving. She also leads teams in effective communication, developing emotional and social intelligence and relationships at Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Medicine, Mount Sinai, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Informed by psychology, contemplative practice, and somatic education, Mecquel bridges kinesthetic experience and practical application for dynamic integration and systems repatterning. She has a masters in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Ph.D. candidate in clinical research at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NY, researching therapeutic and educational applications of interoception.
