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Compassion and Presence - Meditation and Health 1-3 October, 2011 |
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Jon Kabat Zinn Ph.DFounding Director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and The Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society. Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D, is a scientist, writer and meditation teacher engaged in bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society. He gives public talks and workshops throughout the world in mindfulness and its applications for moving toward greater sanity and balance in today’s multitasking, high-speed world. He is Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he was founding executive director of the Centre for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society, and founder and former director of its world-renowned Stress Reduction Clinic. He is the author of numerous books for the public: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness, translated into seven languages; Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, translated into 30 languages; Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness; and co-author, with his wife Myla, of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting. His work has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness in major fields and institutions in our society such as the law, professional sports, medicine, health care and hospitals, schools, corporations and prisons. Site of the University of Massachusetts Medical School: Site of the Stress Reduction Clinic: |
