Willem Kuyken is the Ritblat Professor of Mindfulness and Psychological Sciences at Department of Psychiatry, Warneford Hospital, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, and Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. His work focuses on depression and its prevention and treatment. In particular, his research examines how mindfulness and mindfulness-based programs can prevent depression and enhance human potential across the lifespan. Dr. Kuyken has published more than 100 journal articles, including key papers on the effectiveness, mechanisms, and implementation of mindfulness-based programs. Together with Christina Feldman, he wrote Mindfulness – Ancient Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology, published in 2019 by Guilford Press. He is currently writing a Mindfulness for Life workbook and teacher manual, to be published in 2022 and 2023 respectively, also with Guilford Press.
Rose Mina Munjee is a Registered Psychotherapist, certified mindfulness facilitator, teacher trainer, and mentor, corporate mindfulness trainer, craniosacral therapist, and therapeutic, trauma-informed yoga teacher. She teaches at The Center for Mindfulness Studies, Center for Mindful Self Compassion - UCSD, University of Toronto, Mindful Leader, Mindful Wellness, various hospitals, CAMH, and several organizations including MasterCard Foundation, Aga Khan Agency for Microfinance, IBM, and in Yoga Teacher Training programs. Rose Mina facilitates evidence-based mindfulness interventions including MBSR, MBCT, and MSC. She also has a private practice and does clinical work in Health Care for staff and patients in trauma-informed care and psychotherapy. Her focus is on trauma-informed care, somatic practices including craniosacral techniques, race-based trauma, anti-oppression, and cultivating greater equity, diversity, inclusivity, and belonging for marginalized populations.
Tom Heah has a M.Sc. in Occupational Therapy. He has taught MBSR, MBCT and other mindfulness programs at Vancouver Coastal Health since 2006. He is a mentor for mindfulness teacher trainees at the UCLA Training in Mindfulness Facilitation Program, and at the Centre for Mindfulness Studies. Tom is passionate about teaching mindfulness, and strongly believes in the ability of individuals to find their own wisdom and strength in healing. He has worked with individuals to help improve functioning in daily activities, and manage anxiety, depression, stress, addictions and psychosis. Tom is a Trained Mindfulness Facilitator through the UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center, and a Certified MBCT and MBSR Teacher through the UCSD Center for Mindfulness. He is currently a Clinical Faculty member at the University of British Columbia School of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy.
Andrea Grabovac, is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia, and practices inpatient psychiatry at Vancouver Hospital. She has 15 years of outpatient psycho-oncology experience. Since 2006, she has facilitated group and individual mindfulness-based treatment programs for mood disorder, sexual medicine and oncology populations, using both Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and more recently Mindfulness-integrated Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (MiCBT). Andrea brings a unique combination of clinical expertise in psychophenomenological diagnosis and treatment of psychopathology, a clinically-informed understanding of Buddhist psychological frameworks, and experience with the stages of insight in the context of a 16 year Burmese Theravadan vipassana personal practice to the mentorship process. This amalgamation of experience allows her to clinically manage the complex interrelationship between meditation-induced altered states and primary psychopathology. She provides annual 5-day MBCT professional trainings, co-facilitates monthly MBCT training focused on inquiry and developing clinicians’ personal practice since 2009, and is an MBCT teacher trainer and mentor with the UCSD Mindfulness Based Program Training Institute. She is a Founding Co-Director of the North American Chapter of the MiCBT Institute, and trains clinicians in the delivery of MiCBT internationally. Her academic publications explore the clinical relevance of re-contextualizing mindfulness based interventions within Buddhist psychological frameworks. She has recently co-authored competency-based guidelines for training Canadian psychiatrists in MBIs that include the need for recognition and management of unintended clinical effects of meditation practice. She is Associate Editor for Mindfulness since 2013. She completed her first yoga teacher training in 2020 and has practiced and studied in the Burmese Theravada Vipassana tradition since 2002.
Gwen Morgan is a Professional trainer of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) with the Centre for Mindfulness Studies, Toronto and the UC San Diego Mindfulness-Based Professional Training Institute. For over 20 years, Gwen has facilitated MBSR, MBCT and mindful eating programs in medical and community settings. As part of the Centre for Mindfulness Studies Community Program, she offers mindfulness programs for people and communities who face barriers of access to mental health services and mindfulness, and training for front-line community workers. Gwen passionately believes mindfulness programs will not only foster wellness and resilience in these difficult times but also cultivate a caring community.
Dr. Andrew Szeto is currently the Director of the Mental Health Strategy at the University of Calgary responsible for guiding the implementation of the 28 recommendations within the University of Calgary Campus Mental Health Strategy. He is also a Principal Investigator at the Mental Health Commission of Canada and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Calgary. Over the past 10 years, Dr. Szeto has focused on the development and evaluation of workplace mental illness stigma reduction and mental health promotion programs, such as The Working Mind and The Working Mind for First Responders. Over the past 5 years, he has worked to develop and pilot The Inquiring Mind Post-Secondary, a program tailored for post-secondary students. As well, he has developed a junior high/high school version of the program called The Inquiring Mind Youth. Dr. Szeto also conducts basic research that examines the stigma of mental illness through a social psychological lens, including research on labelling, attitudes, and new interventions to reduce stigma. More recently, his research has focused on post-secondary mental health, and is also a part of the Technical Committee that developed the Canadian Standards Association and Mental Health Commission of Canada’s National Standard for Post-Secondary Student Mental Health and Wellbeing. Dr. Szeto continues to publish academic articles on various topics related to mental health and wellbeing and the stigma of mental illness.
Rosanna D'Agnillo is the founder and lead facilitator of Calgary Mindfulness. She is a long-time community and wellness advocate in the Calgary area, and offers meditation training to children from pre-K to 12, as well as professional and amateur athletes, musicians, teachers, caregivers, front line workers, and all sorts of adults from a wide variety of organizations and companies across North America and Europe. Rosanna has worked in dozens of schools across Calgary, from all the major school boards, private schools, home-school groups, as well as the Tsuu T'ina Junior & Senior High School. She has provided professional development workshops to every major teacher / out-of-school provider organization in Alberta and given numerous workshops for non-profit groups such as Girl Guides and the Calgary Women's Centre. She also has worked with many private companies and government organizations to provide staff training in mindfulness and mental health, wellness and self care. Rosanna is dedicated to promoting self-reliance through healthy discipline, compassionate self-knowledge, and sensible diligence in managing our own mental health and wellness.
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