Adam Groff has been practicing Buddhist meditation since 2009, beginning at the Insight Meditation Center of Newburyport under the instruction of Matthew Daniell. He helped lead a weekly peer-led meditation community in Boston from 2010 to 2015, and in 2014 he completed a yearlong meditation facilitator training with Against the Stream Buddhist Meditation Society. Also in 2014, he helped Chris Crotty found Against the Stream Boston, later known as Boston Meditation Center. He has experience running meditation groups as well as managing residential retreats, and he sits weeklong retreats each year with lay teachers and monastics in the Insight/Theravada tradition. Adam gratefully offers his time as manager and occasional teacher at North Shore Insight Meditation Center. He lives in Newburyport with his wife.

Kim Tompkins became interested in embodiment and contemplative practices in 2004 during her graduate studies at Antioch University in dance movement therapy and counseling psychology. As a mother of two, she became motivated to practice more intentionally and spiritually as a way to center her mind and body amidst multiple life transitions and responsibilities. She was introduced to Buddhist meditation through the writings of Pema Chodron and later began attending retreats with Tibetan Dzogchen master, Younge Khachab Rinpoche. In 2015, seeking a local community of meditators, she became curious about the Center for Mindfulness and Insight Meditation where she met Michael Bresnan and learned the Mahasati approach used by Thai Forest monks. She has since found the practice very effective at deepening and expanding her mindful awareness. Her meditation practice and daily experience of living have benefited from the teachers here and especially from the instruction she has received on retreats under the guidance of Ajahn Da Nilpant and other Thai Forest monks. Kim is a somatic psychotherapist in private practice, a registered yoga teacher and facilitates trauma sensitive yoga.

Max is the Program Manager, and a Meditation Facilitator, at WIMC. He enjoys practicing samatha-vipassanā meditation and studying ancient Buddhist meditation texts in the Pāḷi language. He has supported meditators all over the world as the Coordinator at the Sirimangalo International Buddhist Meditation Society, as a Teacher and Instructional Technologist at the UMass Center for Mindfulness, and as a copyeditor for Venerable Kumāra Bhikkhu, Luangpor Pramote Pamojjo, and Bhante Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu. Max was a classroom teacher for 14 years, working in various settings including public schools, therapeutic assessment programs, and juvenile detention centers. He showed particular interest in collaborating with clinical therapists and psychologists to support students suffering from depression, anxiety, and other mental health conditions. Max is currently an Administrator for the Digital Pāḷi Tools organization, which develops software to explore the Pāḷi language. He teaches meditation to children, adults, and businesses, and is qualified by Brown University to teach Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).