Margaret 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 and in MB Eat with Jean Kristeller. 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, obesity, college students and
Kaiser patients. For ten years she has been involved in teaching
and writing curricula for several research programs at UCSF
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, Boulder, Ann Arbor and Vancouver. 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 at Stanford University, where she co-authored the
Compassion Cultivation Training. Being a meditation practitioner
for thirty years, she is a frequent contributor to "Inquiring Mind"
and is currently writing a book on Mindfulness and Emotions.
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