Pietro Ferrero

Pietro Ferrero was born and raised in Northern Italy and moved to Minneapolis in 2008 to pursue a postgraduate degree in engineering at the University of Minnesota. He started practicing meditation in 2012 during a challenging period in his life. Pietro is very grateful for being part of the Common Ground community since 2016 and having had the chance to sit at numerous residential retreats at both the Prairie Farm and Metta meditation centers. His greatest inspiration is the teaching of the Buddha about the truth of suffering and the possibility to end it. He’s deeply committed to follow the path of practice and he strongly believes that, regardless of one’s circumstances, the mind can be trained and the heart can be opened. In 2023 Pietro successfully completed the two-year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program offered by Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach.