Ted Meissner is the Manager of Online Programming and Community Development at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He has been a meditator since the early 90’s, and is the host of the podcast Present Moment: Mindfulness Practice and Science. He has been interviewed for Books and Ideas, Mindful Lives, and The Whole Leader as well as several other podcasts, and has presented about mindfulness to various groups including the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Harvard Humanist Hub, and Be The Match, the National Marrow Donor program. Ted has been published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, Mindful, and The International Journal of Whole Person Care. He is interested in examining the evolution of contemplative practice in contemporary culture, and teaches Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) live online on a donation basis through his work at PresentMomentMindfulness.com.
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