Charlotte Rotterdam

Charlotte Rotterdam, MTS, is the Director of Naropa University’s Center for the Advancement of Contemplative Education (CACE). The Center serves as a hub for discourse on contemplative teaching and learning, and offers trainings to support the development of contemplative education at Naropa and within the larger field of higher education. For the last three years, Charlotte has directed or served on the planning committee of the Rocky Mountain Dialogues on Mindfulness in Higher Education. Together with 6 other Naropa faculty, Charlotte developed and teaches Naropa’s Mindful Compassion Training, an 8-week public program. She has consulted with several departments at the University of Colorado-Boulder to integrate compassion practices into programs for educators and advisors. An Instructor at Naropa for over ten years, she has taught in the Graduate Religious Studies department and continues to teach in the Core College and the MA Contemplative Psychotherapy & Buddhist Psychology Department. She has presented on contemplative online teaching practices and on the intersection of contemplative practice and social justice work at several conferences.

Charlotte received her Masters in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School and is a senior teacher at Tara Mandala Buddhist Retreat Center. Her essays on the intersection of contemplative practice and daily life have been published in Mandala, Lion’s Roar and in an anthology, Fearless Nest.