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
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The Power of Awareness: Jon Kabat-Zinn in Conversation
The founder of mindfulness-based stress reduction, Jon Kabat-Zinn is considered the father of the American mindfulness movement. Here, he talks to editor-in-chief Melvin McLeod about the essence of mindfulness and how it offers liberation from limiting, self-imposed narratives. This is the first installment of a three-part series.
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.