Jon Kabat-Zinn
Mindfulness teacher and scientist
Jon Kabat-Zinn is an American scientist, writer and meditation teacher who created Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). He holds emeritus status as a medical professor at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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American Born 1944 in New York City, United States
About Jon Kabat-Zinn
Born in 1944, Jon Kabat-Zinn started the Stress Reduction Clinic at the university, along with a center there devoted to mindfulness in medicine and health care. He earned his PhD in molecular biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1971. He created Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), a program now offered by medical centers and hospitals. He studied with Zen teachers including Philip Kapleau, Thich Nhat Hanh and Seung Sahn, and has worked to bring those teachings together with scientific findings. He teaches mindfulness as a way to cope with stress, anxiety, pain and illness. His books include Full Catastrophe Living, which describes the MBSR program, and Wherever You Go, There You Are. Mindfulness for Beginners is also in the BookBits catalog. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages.