Trudy Goodman is an enduring voice in contemporary Buddhist Meditation.

A Vipassana teacher in the Theravada lineage and the Founding Teacher of InsightLA, Trudy teaches retreats at centers around the world.

After becoming a mother, Trudy was fascinated by human development, and studied with Jean Piaget in Geneva, Carol Gilligan, Lawrence Kohlberg, and Jerome Bruner at Harvard. Trudy co-founded a school for distressed children, practicing mindfulness-based psychotherapy with children, parents, teenagers, couples and individuals. She enjoys the company of kids of all ages and has kept her own child-like wonder and curiosity about the world she loves.