The purpose of the Contemplative Teaching and Learning (CTL) Leadership Council is to give coherence and support to the emerging field of contemplative education and to guide the work of the Garrison Institute’s Contemplative Teaching and Learning Initiative.
Patricia Broderick, Ph.D. is a Research Associate with the Prevention Research Center at Penn State University and former director of the Stress Reduction Center at West Chester University of PA...
Richard C. Brown, M.A., founded the Contemplative Education department at Naropa University in 1990...
Marian R. David is founding director of Sustaining the Soul that Serves, a nonprofit organization which supports those who serve in finding spiritual practices...
Adele Diamond Ph.D. is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and the Canada Research Chair in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience...
Mark Greenberg, Ph.D. holds The Bennett Endowed Chair in Prevention Research in Penn State's College of Health and Human Development...
Dr. Patricia (Tish) Jennings is Senior Fellow at the Garrison Institute's Initiative on Contemplative Teaching and Learning and a Research Assistant...
Peggy McCardle, Ph.D. is Chief, Child Development and Behavior Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)...
Jerome Murphy, Ph.D. is the Harold Howe II Professor of Education at Harvard University...
Laura I. Rendón is Professor of Higher Education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas-San Antonio...
Elizabeth Robertson Ph.D. has been with the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 1995 and has been the Chief of the Prevention Research Branch since 1997...
Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, Ph.D. is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology...
Pamela Seigle, M.S. is Executive Director of Courage & Renewal Northeast, based at Wellesley College...
Mark Wilding is the Executive Director of PassageWorks Institute. Mark is the former Director of the Marpa Center for Business and Economics at Naropa University...
Rona Wilensky, PhD, is currently a Resident Fellow at the Spencer Foundation in Chicago...
Arthur Zajonc is President of the Mind & Life Institute, and Emeritus Professor of Physics at Amherst College, where he taught 1978 to 2011. Through his work with the Mind & Life Institute...
Adi Flesher, Director, Contemplative Teaching and Learning: Contact/Bio
Susan Fountain, Field Development Manager
Patricia Jennings, Senior Fellow
Leadership Council: Patricia Broderick, Richard C. Brown, Adele Diamond, Mark Greenberg, Tobin Hart, Linda Lantieri, Peggy McCardle, Jerome Murphy, Elizabeth Robertson, Kimberly Schonert-Reichl, Pamela Seigle, Mark Wilding, Rona Wilensky, Arthur Zajonc
Senior Advisory Board: Clancy Blair, Paul Ekman, Peter Senge, Dan Siegel, B. Alan Wallace
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