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).

Kristin Vaughn was introduced to Insight Meditation in 2007 at a retreat that was co-led  by Sharon Salzberg and Krishna Das. This introduction led to many week-long and ten-day retreats at the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, MA. In 2014, Kristin completed a year-long Mindfulness Meditation Teacher program offered in the UK by The Mindfulness Institute, led by Mark Coleman and Martin Aylward. In 2017, after working with Mark Coleman for several years, Kristin began sitting meditation with Chris Crotty. Kristin has also completed trainings for MBSR, Somatic Experiencing, the Path of Freedom curriculum (a course specifically designed for incarcerated individuals), and is a certified 1500 hour Baptiste Yoga instructor. Most recently, Kristin has assisted Chris Crotty's 2025 three-month retreat at Barre Center for Buddhist Studies. She and her husband reside in both Mystic, CT and Seabrook, NH, and for several years Kristin has been deeply involved in the equine community in Hamilton and Wenham.

Anu has explored various forms of meditation since her college years and returned to a more regular practice after discovering the Wenham Insight Meditation Center in 2015. While navigating a busy corporate career and raising two children, she has found the supportive local community essential for sustaining and deepening her mindful awareness  amidst the busyness of daily life.

Her practice has been especially influenced by teachings from Thai Forest monks, such as Ajahn Da Nilpant, as well as the center's co-spiritual directors, Michael Bresnan and Chris Crotty. Anu has taken on increasingly active volunteer roles within the center, serving as a Steward and a Board Member. She also regularly assists as a Retreat Manager and Practice Leader during the center’s five-day residential retreats.

Anu’s teaching and practice are guided by her continuous focus on maintaining presence and grounded awareness while navigating the complexities of modern life, and gratefully shares the insights and support that have nurtured her practice with this community.