Jon Kabat-Zinn – The Power of Mindfulness as Practice: Making It Real Right Now with Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Faculty:
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Duration:
- 4 Hours 59 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Mar 27, 2015
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Faculty
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D. Related seminars and products: 8
Featured in Bill Moyer’s PBS Special, “Healing and the Mind”, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., is executive director at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He is the founder and former director of the UMMC Stress Reduction Clinic and an associate professor of medicine in the division of preventive and behavioral medicine. Using mindfulness meditation, Kabat-Zinn works to help people reduce stress and deal with chronic pain, and a variety of illnesses, particularly breast cancer. He was a trainer for the 1984 U.S. Men’s Olympic Rowing Team and is especially interested in reducing the stress-related problems in the inner city and in prison populations.
Kabat-Zinn’s books include: Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness (1991); Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (1994) and Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting (1997), which was co-authored with his wife, Myla.
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