Jon Kabat-Zinn is professor emeritus of medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School where he founded the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society and introduced the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course in 1979. He is the author of Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You Go, There You Are.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Recent Articles
Watch: Can Mindfulness Transform the World? with Jon Kabat-Zinn
In conversation with Lion’s Roar editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod, Jon Kabat-Zinn shares how compassion and mindfulness transform not only us as individuals, but by extension, the world.
Watch: Jon Kabat-Zinn on the Universal Power of Awareness
In conversation with Lion’s Roar editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod, Jon Kabat-Zinn explains the powerful “hidden dimension” of awareness and how exploring it reveals who we truly are.
Watch: Jon Kabat-Zinn on Trusting the Present Moment
Jon Kabat-Zinn explains how meditation offers us an opportunity to fall in love with the present moment — “the only moment,” he says, “that we're ever actually alive in.”
Meeting Pain with Awareness
Does awareness suffer? How we can meet our pain with openness, strength, and clarity, and our relationship to it is transformed.