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 rich resource which we would like to share.

Gina Biegel

Psychotherapist, Founder, Stressed Teens: Author, The Stress Reduction Guidebook for Teens

Richard Brown

Founder, Contemplative Education Department, Naropa University

Mirabai Bush

Executive Director, The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society

Margaret Cullen

San Francisco State University/Cultivating Emotional Balance Project, UCSF/CALMM Project; MBSR instructor and MBCT teacher, curriculum design for Smart-in-Education.

Dr. Deepak Chopra

President of The Alliance for a New Humanity (ANH). ANH connects people, who, through personal and social transformation, aim to build a just, peaceful and sustainable world, reflecting the unity of all humanity.

Richard Davidson

Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Director, W.M. Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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.

Paul Ekman

Emeritus Professor UCSF, Emotion Researcher; Author: Emotions Revealed (2003) and co-author (with the Dalai Lama) of Emotional Awareness (2008).

Adam Engle

Co-founder, Chairman & CEO Mind and Life Institute -Education Research Network

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

Paula Green

Founder, Director Karuna Center for Peacebuilding; Professor School for International Training, Director, CONTACT Programs in Peacebuilding

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.

Trudy Goodman

Founder, Insight LA; Founder & Teacher The Center of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy

Soren Gordhamer

Senior Teacher Between Four Eyes. Founder, The Lineage Project; Author: Just Say Om! (2003)

Mark T. Greenberg

Program Developer of Promoting Alternative Thinking Skills (PATHS); Director, Prevention Research Center, for the Promotion of Human Development, Penn State University

Susan Kaiser Greenland

Author, The Mindful Child (Free Press, 2010) and the Inner Kids Program for Children and Families

Goldie Hawn

Founder, The Hawn Foundation; Author: Goldie: A Lotus Grows in the Mud (2005)

Tobin Hart

Founder, ChildSpirit Institute; Author: The Secret Spiritual World of Children (2003)

Patricia A. Jennings

Director, Contemplation and Education, Project on Awareness and Concentration for Learning, Garrison Institute

Amishi Jha

Assistant Professor of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania

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)

Rachael Kessler

Founder, PassageWorks Institute; Author: The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion and Character at School (2000)

Azim Khamisa

Founder, Azim Khamisa Foundation; Author, The Secrets Of The Bullet-Proof Spirit (2009), From Murder To Forgiveness – A Father’s Journey (2005)

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.

Ellen J. Langer

Researcher, Professor of Psychology, Harvard University; Artist; Author: The Power of Mindful Learning (1997) and Mindfulness (1989)

Linda Lantieri

Founder, Project Renewal/Resolving Conflict Creatively

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.

John Marks

Founder & President, Search For Common Ground

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

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 and co-founder Educators For Nonviolence.

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.

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)

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.

Amy Saltzman

Co-Founder & Director, Association for Mindfulness in Education; Author: Still Quiet Place (2004) www.mindfuleducation.org

Saki Santorelli

Executive Director, Center for Mindfulness in Medicine Healthcare and Society; Director, Stress Reduction Clinic, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Clifford Saron, Ph.D.

Associate Research Scientist, Associate Research Scientist UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, M.I.N.D. Institute

Kimberley Schonert-Reichl

Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia

Zindel Segal

Chair of Psychotherapy, Morgan Firestone; Professor of Psychiarty and Psychology, University of Toronto; Author: The Mindful Way Through Depression (2007)

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.

Pamela Seigle

Founder, The Open Circle Program; Executive Director, Courage and Renewal NorthEast

Martin Seligman

Director, University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center; Author: Learned Optimism (2006), Authentic Happiness (2002)

Cari Shurman

Founder, Tai Chi for Kids©; a program for children of all ages to enhance focus, fitness and self-esteem. Cari offers workshops to parents and teachers in schools throughout the United States.

Sue Smalley

Founder and Director, MARC; Founder, Mindful Awareness Research Center, UCLA

Bob Stahl

Founder of Awareness and Relaxation Training that contracts Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs at five medical centers in Northern California

Robin Stern

Faculty Coach, The School at Columbia University; Author: Understanding Emotions in the Classroom (2006)

Randy Taran

Founder & Executive Director, Project Happiness

Ulco Visser

Founder, Impact Foundation, Smart-in-Education

Roger Weissberg

President, CASEL, The Collaborative for Social and Emotional Learning

Diana Winston

Director of Mindfulness Education, Mindful Awareness Research Center.

Lawrence D.G. Wong

Founder of “Wong’s Taiji and Chi Gung for Health”; Certified Acupressurist and Awareness Educator; Taiji and Chi Gung Mentor.

Betsy Zeger

Certified Life Coach and Mediator