Primary partners
Tibet House, U.S.
Ganden Thurman, Executive Director
Menla Mountain Retreat
Michael Burbank, Director of Administration
Local partners
Jewel Heart International
Carole Corcoran and Nancy Jeffries, Co-Directors
Weill Cornell Medicine
Mary Charlson, MD, Chair of Epidemiology
Advances in Meditation Research Conference
Sonia Sequeira, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Co-Organizer
Shantideva Meditation Center
Desmond Hosford, Director
Global partners
Nalanda Institute San Francisco Contemplative Psychotherapy Program
Fiona Brandon, MA, LMFT, Psychotherapist
Nalanda Institute Toronto Contemplative Psychotherapy Program
Marco Mascarin, PhD, Co-Director, Institute of Traditional Medicine
Nalanda Institute Barcelona/Mexico City Contemplative Psychotherapy Program
Koncha Pinós-Pey, PhD, Director, Estudios Contemplativos
Affiliates
The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy
Christopher Germer, PhD, Program Director &
Paul Fulton, PhD, Certificate Program Director
Mindsight Institute
Daniel J. Siegel, MD, Executive Director
San Francisco Zen Center
Rita Cummings, Vice-President of Operations
Insight Meditation Society
Sharon Salzberg, Co-founder
Flow Institute / Mind Life Europe
Sander Tideman, Director
Emory Contemplative Science
Geshe Lobsang Negi, Director
Wellspring Institute for Neuroscience and Contemplative Wisdom
Rick Hanson, PhD, Co-founder