Joost Vriens

Joost Vriens/Attentive Mountain of the Heart received The Five Mindfulness Trainings in 2021 in Plum Village. He is a facilitator of Eindhoven Sangha in the Netherlands. In 2022, together with Baltus van Laatum, Joost founded an online sangha for Dutch educators. In 2023, he retired after forty years of teaching in a secondary vocational school to join Richard Brady and Elena Cardo in succeeding Orla O’Sullivan as an International Wake Up Schools Coordinator. In this role, Joost coordinates Happy Teachers Sangha International. He has a son, Jorne (thirty-four), and a daughter, Fenna (thirty-one).