Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD is founding Executive Director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is also the founding director of its renowned Stress Reduction Clinic and Professor of Medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches mindfulness and Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) in various venues around the world. He received his Ph.D. in molecular biology from MIT in 1971 in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Salvador Luria.

His work in the Stress Reduction Clinic was featured in Bill Moyers' PBS Special Healing and the Mind and in the book of the same title as well as on Good Morning America the Oprah Winfrey Show and Oprah's Super Soul Sunday as well as NPR. he has contributed to a growing movement of mindfulness into mainstream institutions such as medicine and psychology health care and hospitals schools corporations the legal profession prisons and professional sports.

He is the author of numerous bestselling books about mindfulness and meditation: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress Pain and Illness; Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life; Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness; and Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness. He is also co-author with his wife Myla of Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting; and with Williams Teasdale and Segal of The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness Overall his books have been translated into over thirty languages.