About
Firth MacMillan
Firth is dedicated to helping people improve their lives with mindfulness and meditation. A mindfulness teacher for eight years, she is a certified Koru Mindfulness teacher and a certified Solution – Focus coach.
Firth holds a Bachelor of Education from University of Western Ontario as well as degrees in visual art from the University of Michigan (BFA), NSCAD University (BFA) and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (MFA).
She has her Instructor Certification from the Center for Koru Mindfulness in Durham, NC. Firth is also a Solution-Focus Coach with training and certification from The Faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto.
Firth has 25 years’ experience teaching at all levels: elementary, high school, college, university, as well as continuing education.
Why is it called pie mindfulness, you ask?
Presence is everything.. These three words encompass the most powerful teaching for me – stop obsessively thinking and tune into the present moment.
(And also, for sentimental reasons. My mindfulness teaching began with leading with a small group of friends through Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth back in 2013. It was berry picking season and as I love having peeps to enjoy dessert with, I used our meetings as an opportunity to overcome my ‘crust angst’ and make pie. When one of their teenagers overheard us discussing possible names for our group, he poked his head in and said “How about you call it “Middle-aged Ladies Endlessly Talking About Spir-it-u-al-i-ty?” Aghast, outraged and definitely not wanting this name to stick, we immediately settled on “Pie Club.”
"My favourite aspect of the Koru Basic course was Firth reading and responding to my daily meditation reflection log on the Koru App. I always looked forward to reading her responses which were unfailingly warm, earnest, and discerning."
Koru Basic Student 2021