This resource directory links you to the key visionaries, scientists, educators and professionals that have contributed to our awareness-building process. Their invaluable expertise in the field of mindful awareness, attention training, conflict resolution and peacemaking continues to shape our program development and is a resource guide which we would like to share.
Richard Brown
Founder, Contemplative Education Department, Naropa University
www.naropa.edu
Mirabai Bush
Executive Director, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society
www.contemplativemind.org
Margaret Cullen
San Francisco State University/Cultivating Emotional Balance Project, UCSF/CALMM Project; MBSR instructor and MBCT teacher, curriculum design for Smart-in-Education.
mmscullen@aol.com
Richard Davidson
Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Director, W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, Madison
www.psych.wisc.edu/faculty/bio/davidson.html
Gary Diggins
Founder and Artistic Director of Toronto SoundSource. Gary serves as an expressive arts practitioner, recording artist, and facilitator in corporate leadership programs. His work pivots around deep listening as a gateway to meaningful relationships between individuals and within communities.
www.garydiggins.com
Paul Ekman
Emeritus Professor UCSF, Emotion Researcher; Author: Emotions Revealed (2003) and co-author (with the Dalai Lama) of Emotional Awareness (2008).
www.paulekman.com
Adam Engle
Co-founder, Chairman & CEO Mind and Life Institute -Education Research Network
www.mindandlife.org/
Nancy Etcoff
Harvard University Mind/Brain/Behavior Initiative; Author: Survival Of The Prettiest (1999)
Philippe Goldin
Research Scientist, Psychology Department, Stanford University; Director, Clinically Applied Affective Neuroscience Research Group
www-psych.stanford.edu/~caan/
Paula Green
Founder, Director Karuna Center for Peacebuilding; Professor School for International Training, Director, CONTACT Programs in Peacebuilding
www.karunacenter.org | www.sit.edu/contact
Daniel Goleman
Psychologist, lecturer, journalist and author: Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships, Working with Emotional Intelligence and Destructive Emotions: A Scientific Dialogue with the Dalai Lama.
www.danielgoleman.info/blog/
Trudi Goodman
Founder, Insight LA; Founder & Teacher The Center of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy
www.insightla.org/ | www.mindfulnessandpsychotherapy.org/
Soren Gordhamer
Senior Teacher Between Four Eyes. Founder, The Lineage Project; Author: Just Say Om! (2003)
www.lineageproject.org/index.htm
Mark T. Greenberg
Program Developer of Promoting Alternative Thinking Skills (PATHS); Director, Prevention Research Center, for the Promotion of Human Development, Penn State University
www.prevention.psu.edu/people/greenberg_m.html
Susan Kaiser Greenland
Co-Founder and Executive Director, InnerKids Foundation
http://www.innerkids.org/ | www.ikwiki.org/
Goldie Hawn
Founder, The Hawn Foundation; Author: Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud (2005)
www.thehawnfoundation.org
Tobin Hart
Founder, ChildSpirit Institute; Author: The Secret Spiritual World of Children (2003)
www.childspirit.org
Patricia A. Jennings
Director, Contemplation and Education, Project on Awareness and Concentration for Learning, Garrison Institute
www.garrisoninstitute.org
Amishi Jha
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
www.attention.psych.upenn.edu
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Founder, Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction in Medicine, HealthCare and Society, University of Massachusetts Medical School; Author: Coming To Our Senses: Healing Ourselves And The World Through Mindfulness (2005)
www.umassmed.edu/cfm/index.aspx
Rachael Kessler
Founder, PassageWorks Institute; Author: The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion and Character at School (2000)
www.passageworks.org/
Hala Khouri
Yoga teacher, somatic counselor, workshop facilitator to adults and at-risk youth, internationally. Hala is a co-creator of Off the Mat, Into the World®, a national initiative aimed at getting the yoga community involved in social action.
www.halakhouri.com www.offthematintotheworld.org
Ellen J. Langer
Researcher, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University; Artist; Author: The Power of Mindful Learning (1997) and Mindfulness (1989)
www.wjh.harvard.edu/~langer/index.html
Linda Lantieri
Founder, Project Renewal/Resolving Conflict Creatively
www.projectrenewal-tidescenter.org/
Gary Malkin
Founder and Creative Director, Wisdom of the World, Inc. Gary is an award-winning composer, performer, and public speaker dedicated to participating in projects that inspire the heart and catalyze societal and individual healing.
www.wisdomoftheworld.com www.garymalkin.com
John Marks
Founder & President, Search For Common Ground
www.sfcg.org/
Florence Meleo-Meyer
Director, Oasis - An International Learning Center for Mindfulness-Oriented Professional Education and Training, Center For Mindfulness, Medicine, HealthCare and Society, University of Massachusetts Medical School
www.umassmed.edu/cfm/index.aspx
Michael Nalger
Professor emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at UC, Berkeley, where he founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program. Nagler is an author, activist and founder of the Metta Center for Nonviolence Education: www.mettacenter.org and co-founder Educators For Nonviolence: info@efnv.org
Daphne Nederhorst
Founder, SAWA Global – empowers anyone to be a direct part of global change by connecting citizens to extraordinary grassroots initiatives in the 50 poorest countries; local leaders that want to showcase their solutions to the critical issues of the 21st century via video and provide ideas for support through non-monetary actions.
www.sawaglobal.com
Parker J. Palmer
Founder, The Center for Courage & Renewal; Author: A Hidden Wholeness (2004) and Courage To Teach: A Guide for Reflection and Renewal (1999)
www.couragerenewal.org
Randy Taran
Founder & Executive Director, Project Happiness
www.projecthappiness.com
Sharon Salzberg
Cofounder of the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, which now ranks as one of the most prominent and active meditation centers in the Western world. Sharon is the author of several books, she is a contributing editor of Oprah’s O Magazine and has been leading meditation retreats worldwide since 1974.
http://www.sharonsalzberg.com/
Amy Saltzman
Co-Founder & Director, Association for Mindfulness in Education; Author: Still Quiet Place (2004) www.mindfuleducation.org
www.stillquietplace.com
Saki Santorelli
Executive Director, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine Healthcare and Society; Director, Stress Reduction Clinic, University of Massachusetts Medical School
www.umassmed.edu/cfm/index.aspx
Kimberley Schonert-Reichl
Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
www.educ.ubc.ca/research/ksr
Zindel Segal
Chair of Psychotherapy, Morgan Firestone; Professor of Psychiarty and Psychology, University of Toronto; Author: The Mindful Way Through Depression (2007)
www.mbct.com
Daniel Siegel
Founder of the Mindsight Institute, psychotherapist and author: The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience and The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in The Cultivation of Well-Being.
www.marc.ucla.edu
Pamela Seigle
Founder, The Open Circle Program; Executive Director, Courage and Renewal NorthEast
www.open-circle.org | www.couragene.org
Martin Seligman
Director, University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center; Author: Learned Optimism (2006), Authentic Happiness (2002)
www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu
Sue Smalley
Founder and Director, MARC; Founder, Mindful Awareness Research Center, UCLA
www.marc.ucla.edu
Bob Stahl
Founder of Awareness and Relaxation Training that contracts Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs at five medical centers in Northern California
http://www.mindfulnessprograms.com
Robin Stern
Faculty Coach, The School at Columbia University; Author: Understanding Emotions in the Classroom (2006)
www.eiconsortium.org/members/stern.htm
Ulco Visser
Founder, Impact Foundation, Smart-in-Education
www.theimpactfoundation.org
Roger Weissberg
President, CASEL, The Collaborative for Social and Emotional Learning
www.casel.org
Diana Winston
Director of Mindfulness Education, Mindful Awareness Research Center.
www.marc.ucla.edu
Lawrence D.G. Wong
Founder of "Wong's Taiji and Chi Gung for Health"; Certified Acupressurist and Awareness Educator; Taiji and Chi Gung Mentor.
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