Chris founded Dharma Heart Zen in (year). She was the guiding teacher for Sky Island Zen for many years. She co-founded Veteran’s PATH (year) that offered meditation and mindfulness practices to current era veterans. Chris is a core facilitator for the annual Wildland Firefighter Retreat held at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, that offers immersion in the healing power and care of community and the direct experience of practice as a path of refuge and renewal for body mind and spirt. She co-facilitates the monthly Racial and Social Justice as Dharma Practice Group, committed to study, intimate investigation and conversation and embodied bodhisattva practice to actualize personal and collective freedom for all beings. Chris co-facilitates Jizo Ceremonies that acknowledge and mourn the death of those who have died, an offering to cultivate the individual and collective capacity to accept and engage with grief. Chris has been active with the Faith Leaders Work Group of the Sonoma County Sanctuary Coalition, which recently received an award from the ACLU.

“Chris Fortin is one of the remarkable ones. A person for whom caregiving and teaching are a natural expression of her life.
She has a wealth of professional skills as a seasoned therapist, years of study and dedicated practice as a Zen priest and the all important common sense that arrives with maturity.
Chris has a bright and cultivated mind but she transmits her wisdom through an ever expanding, open heart."
- Frank Ostaseski, Founder, Metta Institue, Co-Founder, Zen Hospice Project