Margaret Cullen, MA, MFT, is a licensed marriage and family
therapist and a certified mindfulness based stress reduction
teacher. She has also trained with Zindel Segal in
mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). For twenty years she
has been teaching and pioneering mindfulness programs in a variety
of settings, including cancer support, HIV support, physician
groups, executive groups, and obesity support. For ten years she
has been involved in teaching and writing curricula for several
research programs at University of California, San Francisco,
including "Cultivating Emotional Balance," designed for teachers,
and "Craving and Lifestyle Management with Meditation," for
overweight women. In 2008 she launched a mindfulness-based
emotional balance program for teachers and school administrators in
Denver, CO; Boulder, CO; Ann Arbor, MI; and Vancouver, BC. She has
also been a facilitator of support groups for cancer patients and
their loved ones for twenty years at the Cancer Support Community,
and is currently a senior teacher at the Center for Compassion and
Altruism Research and Education at Stanford University, where she
coauthored the Compassion Cultivation training manual.
Gonzalo Brito Pons, PhD, is a clinical psychologist from the
Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, who has worked with
diverse populations in Chile and Peru integrating Western
psychological approaches with local traditional medicine,
mindfulness, and yoga. As a certified yoga teacher and
mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) instructor, he has
included these practices in his clinical work and workshops for
mental health care professionals and educators over the last
decade. Brito Pons is a certified teacher of Stanford's Compassion
Cultivation Training Program, and obtained his PhD doing
experimental research on the individual and relational effects of
compassion training in Santiago de Chile. He has led mindfulness
and compassion cultivation workshops in English and Spanish in the
San Francisco Bay Area, Chile, Argentina, and Spain. He is s also
founder of Red Mindfulness (www.redmindfulness.org), a large
Spanish-speaking online community that focuses on bringing
contemplative practices and insights into education, work, and
society at large.
Foreword writer Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD, is internationally known for
his work as a scientist, writer, and meditation teacher engaged in
bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society.
He is professor of medicine emeritus at the University of
Massachusetts Medical School, and author of numerous books,
including Full Catastrophe Living, Arriving at Your Own Door, and
Coming to Our Senses.
In an increasingly topsy-turvy world, finding emotional balance is
more important than ever—and Margaret Cullen and Gonzalo Brito Pons
show you how, walking with you step-by-step, drawing on brain
science, ancient wisdom, and the power of mindfulness. Comforting
and powerful, down-to-earth and profound, this book is a clear path
from stress, frustration, and irritation to calm strength,
happiness, and inner peace.
*Rick Hanson, PhD, author of Buddha's Brain*
Bravo to The Mindfulness-Based Emotional Balance
Workbook! This is a very wise and compassionate book that
shows how you can transform difficult emotions by acknowledging and
embracing them as a path to greater freedom and peace.
*Bob Stahl, PhD, coauthor of A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction
Workbook, Living with Your Heart Wide Open, Calming the Rush of
Panic, A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook for Anxiety,
and MBSR Every Day*
The Mindfulness-Based Emotional Balance Workbook combines the
wisdom of reflection, the beauty of compassion, and the rigor of
science. It guides its readers into the capacity of mindfulness to
reduce emotional reactivity and cultivate kindness, compassion, and
forgiveness. The wealth of ideas and practices in this illuminating
work will be of benefit and has the potential to transform our
individual and collective lives.
*Shauna Shapiro, PhD, professor at Santa Clara University and
author of The Art and Science of Mindfulness and Mindful
Discipline*
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