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Meet Your Teacher, Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD is a professor of medicine emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, where he founded the world-renowned Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Clinic in 1979.

MBSR programs have now spread around the world to hospitals, clinics, schools, and other institutions.

Jon also founded the university’s Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society in 1995.

He is the author of 14 books translated into over forty languages, including Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are; Mindfulness for Beginners; and the new four-volume series of the revised Coming to Our Senses.

“Have you tried meditating?”

There’s a good chance you’ve heard this from someone. Maybe from a friend in whom you’ve confided a challenge, or perhaps your doctor. At some point, you might even have given it a try – but how was sitting and breathing really supposed to help?

But here’s the thing – it actually can help – and does.

Few can speak to this with as much authority as Jon Kabat-Zinn, one of the most important figures in bringing the tools and teachings of mindfulness meditation into the mainstream.

For 40 years, Jon has been teaching these methods through the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, treating more than 24,000 people for conditions ranging from severe anxiety to post-traumatic stress disorder.