Featured Podcast Guests

Episode 165 :: Jamie Bristow :: Mindfulness: Developing Agency in Urgent Times

Episode 164 :: Zindel V. Segal :: Online Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

Episode 163 :: Frits Koster :: Mindfulness-Based Compassionate Living

Episode 162 :: Ronald Epstein :: Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity

Episode 161 :: Sam Himelstein :: Trauma-Informed Mindfulness With Teens

Episode 160 :: David Treleaven :: A Course on Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness

Episode 158 :: Irene Kraegel :: The Mindful Christian

Episode 157 :: Ravi Kudesia and Christopher Reina :: Antecedents of Mindfulness

Episode 155 :: Cheryl B. Engelhardt :: Anxiety, Mindfulness, and Music

Episode 154 :: Willoughby Britton :: Cheetah House and Meditation Safety

Episode 147 :: Elizabeth A. Stanley, Ph.D. :: Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma

Episode 145 :: Carter Lebares :: Efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Training in Surgery

Episode 135 :: Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo :: Mindfulness and Caregivers of Veterans

Episode 132 :: Jylani Ma’at Brown :: Teens of Color Mindfulness Retreat

Episode 121 :: Deborah Salazar Shapiro :: The Magical Mindful Day

Episode 119 :: Dawn Brooks DeCosta :: Emotional Intelligence at Thurgood Marshall Academy Lower School

Episode 106 :: Amishi Jha :: Mindfulness for the Military

Practice Circle: Mindful Movement

Episode 105 :: Maia Duerr :: Work That Matters: Create a Livelihood That Reflects Your Core Intention

Episode 104 :: Jane Compson, Lynette Monteiro, Frank Musten :: Practitioner’s Guide to Ethics and Mindfulness-Based Interventions

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When: Every Monday, 7:00 p.m. Eastern.

Where: Wherever you have a strong internet connection.

What: Half hour lightly guided meditation, half hour community sharing.

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Sessions held Live Online use streaming video technology via computer. Participants log into their computer to see and hear the teachers and other participants, and to share their own experiences.

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Ted Meissner has been a meditator since the early 90’s, is a UMass Center for Mindfulness Certified MBSR Teacher, and is the host of the podcast Present Moment: Mindfulness Practice and Science. He has been interviewed for Books and Ideas, Mindful Lives, and The Whole Leader as well as several other podcasts, and has presented about mindfulness to various groups including the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Harvard Humanist Hub, and Be The Match, the National Marrow Donor program. Ted has been published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, Mindful, and The International Journal of Whole Person Care, and teaches mindfulness, resilience, and hosts the in-person Mindfulness Practice Center community.