Dr. Ronald D. Siegel is an Assistant Professor of Psychology, part time, at Harvard Medical School, where he has taught for over 35 years. He is a long time student of mindfulness meditation and serves on the Board of Directors and faculty of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy. He teaches internationally about the application of mindfulness practice in psychotherapy and other fields, and maintains a private clinical practice in Lincoln, Massachusetts.

Dr. Siegel is author of a comprehensive guide for general audiences, The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems; coeditor of the critically acclaimed text, Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, 2nd Edition, and Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy; coauthor of the professional guide, Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy; coauthor of the self-treatment guide Back Sense, which integrates Western and Eastern approaches for treating chronic back pain; and author of the forthcoming book, The Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary: Finding Happiness Right Where You Are.

He is also professor for The Science of Mindfulness: A Research-Based Path to Well-Being produced by The Great Courses, a regular contributor to other professional publications, and co-director of the annual Harvard Medical School Conference on Meditation and Psychotherapy.

Paul R. Fulton, Ed.D., co-founder and former president of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy and on the teaching faculty of the Germany-based Institute for Mindfulness-Based Approaches. He has been a student of Buddhist psychology for over 43 years, having received jukai initiation in Zen Buddhism in 1972, and a lifelong student of the integration of Buddhist meditation and psychotherapy. Dr. Fulton received his doctorate from Harvard's Laboratory for Human Development where he studied comparative developmental psychology, and did his dissertation on the nature of the self among American Buddhists. He is course director of IMP's 9 month long Certificate Program in Mindfulness & Psychotherapy, co-editor and co-author of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy and contributing author to Buddhism and World Culture, Mindfulness and the therapeutic relationship, Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy, Begegnung von westlicher Psychotherapie und buddhistischer Geistesschulung, and other volumes. He is a member of the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School at Cambridge Health Alliance, and a clinical psychologist in private practice in Newton, Massachusetts. www.paulfulton.org, and a musician/songwriter. http://cdbaby.com/cd/paulfulton and media.paulfulton.org

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Christopher Germer, PhD is a clinical psychologist and lecturer on psychiatry (part-time) at Harvard Medical School. He is a co-developer (with Kristin Neff) of the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) program, author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion, co-author of The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook and Teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Program, and co-editor of Mindfulness and Psychotherapy, and Wisdom and Compassion in Psychotherapy.

Dr. Germer is a founding faculty member of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy as well as the Center for Mindfulness and Compassion, Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School. He teaches and leads workshops internationally on mindfulness and compassion, and has a private practice in Arlington, Massachusetts, USA specializing in mindfulness and compassion-based psychotherapy.