Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn is a mindfulness teacher, author, and founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, sharing guided practices through books, talks, retreats, and his meditation app.
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Known for
Overview
- Work
- Mindfulness teacher, author, and scientist
- Training
- Doctoral work in molecular biology at MIT with Salvador Luria
- Starting point
- Founded the MBSR Clinic at UMass in 1979
- Public breakthrough
- Full Catastrophe Living (1990) and PBS’s Healing and the Mind (1993)
Mini bio
How it started.
Jon began a daily meditation practice while studying at MIT in 1966, as he recounts in his paper on the origins of MBSR. He later taught biology at Brandeis and served as director of the Cambridge Zen Center.
Bringing practice into medicine.
In 1979, he founded the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Clinic at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He founded its Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society in 1995 and is now professor of medicine emeritus.
Reaching readers and viewers.
Full Catastrophe Living brought him international recognition in 1990. His 1993 appearance with Bill Moyers on PBS’s Healing and the Mind introduced MBSR to a mainstream audience. Wherever You Go, There You Are followed in 1994.
Practicing together.
His work continues through books, public conversations, retreats, and the JKZ Meditations App. During the early COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, his online mitigation retreat offered 66 consecutive weekdays of live meditation, teaching, and dialogue.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2024Wherever You Go, There You Are: 30th Anniversary EditionAuthor
- 2023Mindfulness Meditation for Pain ReliefAuthor
- 2014Everyday Blessings: Revised and UpdatedCoauthor with Myla Kabat-Zinn
- 1994Wherever You Go, There You AreAuthor
- 1990Full Catastrophe LivingAuthor
Awards
Quotes
The core invitation of mindfulness is for you to befriend yourself.Jon Kabat-Zinn, official website
From his welcome message introducing the site’s mindfulness resources.
Trivia
- Before his mindfulness work became widely known, he taught molecular genetics at Brandeis University.
- He coauthored Everyday Blessings with his wife, Myla.
- His online mitigation retreat in 2020 ran for 66 consecutive weekdays.
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