The MBSR Home Study Course

Florence Meleo-Meyer Florence Meleo-Meyer, MS, MA, is Director of Oasis Institute for Mindfulness-Based Professional Education and Training, a senior MBSR teacher and a member of the executive leadership team for the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. For more then three decades Florence has taught meditation and mindfulness to clinical populations and to professionals working in the fields of psychology, medicine, business, and education in the United States and internationally. A student of contemplative practices for over 35 years, she is a certified Siddha Meditation teacher as well as a senior Insight Dialogue teacher. She holds degrees in psychology and education and is a licensed family therapist. Her dedication to enriching the lives of children and the people who work most closely with them has led her to develop Cool Minds™, a mindfulness-based educational program for adolescents, and The Aware Teacher™, an innovative program that supports the integration of mindfulness into the lives of teachers. Most recently, she wrote, coordinated, and is featured in the DVD Living Awake: Mindfulness Practices for Young Adults. Florence brings deep commitment, compassion, and humor to her work. She is inspired to offer her service in alignment with the vision of the Center for Mindfulness—"An Awake and Compassionate World." Saki Santorelli Saki F. Santorelli, EdD, MA, is a professor of medicine, director of the internationally-acclaimed Stress Reduction Clinic, and executive director of the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. As a faculty member in the Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, he has worked with thousands of medical patients and has educated and helped mentor generations of practitioners and researchers of mindfulness and mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), engaging in more than 30,000 clinical hours of MBSR. In 2001, he founded Oasis Institute, a comprehensive professional education and training program leading to teacher certification in MBSR. In 2003, he founded and is chair of an annual scientific conference on mindfulness, entitled Investigating and Integrating Mindfulness into Medicine, Health Care and the Society. 2014 marks the 12th year of this annual, international meeting. In 2011, Saki established the annual John and Tussi Kluge Translational Research Symposium on Mindfulness. Saki teaches and presents internationally and is the author of Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine.