Eszter Szabo

Current occupation

Freelancer mindfulness trainer and well-being facilitator, project developer

Work experience

My foundation as a landscape architect offers a systemic understanding of how environments shape us.
My path as a mindfulness trainer and practitioner equipped me with tools to translate that understanding into human experience, emotional depth, and sense of belonging.
My personal journey left marks of burnout, social anxiety and depression, which drove me to stand up for prevention of mental health.
My past as a ski- and sailing instructor gave me confidence to safe facilitation and guidance in natural surroundings.

What do I do?
- I facilitate Mindfulness Trainings (in universities, schools and to general public)
- I host circles where simple presence is valued over development and growth. (Post-growth mindset)
- I guide Nature experiences with in depth focus of our inner and outer landscapes and our relations to them. (Multi-day mindful walks, retreats, forest immersions)
- I envision trainings and projects with the intention to awaken one's ecoliteracy and empower individual action.

My most relevant training experience:
- Unravelling Mindfulness at a personal and organizational level - Budapest Business University (spring and autumn 2025) - course developer and trainer
- Economical Behaviors, Buddhism and Mindfulness - Budapest Business University (spring 2023 and 2024) co-trainer
- Guided by Nature Training course, Sweden, Positive-youth (2022) - apprentice trainer
- Burnout Lab Youth Exchange, Well-being Lab, Sweden (2022) co-facilitator
- Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Trainings for general public (regular 8 week long courses since 2020)
- I've been teaching skiing and sailing as a profession since 2010
- offering outdoor yoga, sup yoga and forest bathing since 2017

- I have created my own ondemand online mindfulness training for beginners: 'Meditálj könnyedén' at slowtime.hu meditation platform

Private retreats: Nature as Healer, Hungary (2024) Nourish and Prosper, Norway (2022 and 2023) Sail and Soul, Adriatic Sea (2023), Ski and Soul, Mindful days with Mindful Games

Private mindfulness trainings since 2020 for general public, for children from 8-11 and for teens as well.

Future plans:

- I am continuing working with Budapest Business University
- I am invited to facilitate Nature Immersion workshop at IFOTES Congress "The Human Touch - The Power of Presence," in July, 2026 Budapest
- I am writing my own project called Healing Design - Exploring sustainable design for mental health
- I am involved in a partnership about developing a methodology based on mirroring nature and emotional intelligence
- I am open to cooperation if you feel called to work with me