B Grace Bullock

Dr. B Grace Bullock is a psychologist, mental and behavioral health, education and organizational consultant, strategist and policy advisor, educator, research scientist, science writer, motivational speaker, and Senior Mental Health Officer at the Oregon Department of Education.

Grace's research's teaching, and practice focus on the ways in which the mind and body intersect to shape our experiences and relationships. She has dedicated her career to health promotion, prevention, intervention, research, and the development of policies and practices that ensure that all children and families have equitable access to culturally responsive mental health services and educational supports.

She champions the creation of safe, welcoming, and inclusive school systems, cultures and climates that honor diversity and intersectionality, fully recognize all ways of being and knowing, and ensure that all belong. This means working in partnership to realize detailed, actionable policies that drive sustainable systems change.

Grace has spent more than two decades teaching and studying physiological and psychological interventions to reduce stress and support resilient, healthy relationships and systems. An educator at heart, she teaches courses and workshops on strengths-based, trauma-informed, equity-centered principles and practices, interpersonal relationships, stress resilience, and clinical practice at colleges, universities, professional schools, school districts and organizations across the USA and Canada.

She is the science writer for Mindful magazine and online, and her research and writing have been published in numerous empirical journals, and featured in Psychology Today, and The Greater Good Science Center, among others. She is the science writer for Mindful Magazine and Mindful.org, and former Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Yoga Therapy.

Grace received a BA Highest Honors in Psychology, Summa Cum Laude from the University of California at Los Angeles, a MS and PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of Oregon, and completed her clinical residency at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She has been studying, practicing and teaching mindfulness-based practices using meditation, movement, and sound for more than two decades.

To learn more see www.gracebullock.com