Mind-Body Skills for Well-being and Peak Performance

Dr. Shilagh Mirgain is a Health and Sport Psychologist at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Shilagh is originally from Chicago but was raised primarily overseas attending International Schools. Having traveled extensively, Dr. Shilagh was exposed to a diversity of cultures and lifestyles from an early age. She became intrigued by the ways cultural and environmental conditions affect people’s psychological well-being.

Dr. Shilagh Mirgain: Speaker, Writer, Facilitator, Therapist

A sought-after speaker, writer, facilitator and therapist, Dr. Shilagh is a frequent contributor to WMTV News and BRAVA Magazine in Madison. She writes and speaks on mind-body skills to foster optimal health and well-being. Dr. Shilagh has presented on well-being in the workplace at major corporations such as Boeing, Harley Davidson, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Saris and Promega Corporation.

In her clinical practice, Dr. Shilagh treats a variety of medical conditions and mood and anxiety disorders. As a sport psychologist, she specializes in peak performance training and injury rehabilitation.

Shilagh received a B.A. from Wellesley College and a Ph.D. in Clinical and Community Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University. She spent a college semester abroad studying about Tibetan culture and meditation in Asia and received a blessing from His Holiness, the Dalai Lama. This experience profoundly influenced her life’s work of learning and teaching how to cultivate the power of the mind through mind-body medicine. Dr. Shilagh has continued traveling extensively to parts of the world as a lifelong learner of spirituality, mindfulness and mind-body medicine. She recently utilized the mind-body skills for peak performance she teaches to circumambulate the sacred Mt. Kailash in Tibet and to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.