About Kathy Scharmer
Learn more about the Founder of Mindfulness Counts, Rev Kathy Scharmer, MS, PMP
Business World
Kathy has been a project and program manager since the early 1980's, gradually taking her advanced project management skills into the teaching arena for two major Fortune 500 companies. Education has been a passion with Kathy for over three decades now and she considers herself a lifelong student. If she is not conducting a class, she is surely taking one herself.
She received her Master of Science degree in Telecommunications in 1994 from Golden Gate University in San Francisco California and is a proud member of Toastmaster Int'l where she has achieved the highest level of Public Speaking award as a Gold Member.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is the key to Kathy's spiritual experience and culminated in her being ordained as a Minister in 2017 with Centers for Spiritual Living. This required five years of education and a three-year apprenticeship. Kathy now serves as the Education Director for Center for Spiritual Living, Livermore Valley where she supports the annual curriculum and conducts classes both online and in person on a regular basis.
As an ordained minister, Kathy conducts spiritual counseling as well as performing sacred ceremonies like weddings, celebration of life ceremonies and a multitude of rites of passage events like house blessings, christenings and rituals that honors the transformation of individuals as they journey through this thing called Life.
Volunteer Work
In addition to the work Kathy does as the founder of Mindfulness Counts, she volunteers her time with Homeless Action Sonoma (HAS) where she works individually with clients.
Kathy is also an active member of Toastmasters International, pursuing the award of being a Distinguished Toastmasters which requires her to take on a variety of volunteer leadership roles with Toastmasters.
A new organization called Consciousness Caravans has recently been formed that focuses on bringing a deeper sense of consciousness while going on RV travels. Kathy and her husband both serve on the board of this organization and participate in RV travels whenever time permits.