Mitch Takefman is certified as an instructor in several mindfulness and mediation disciplines. He is also the co-creator of the TME program and founder of MT Mindfulness Consulting.
For over 30 years he has been practicing meditation and mindfulness and utilizes the approaches of different practices for various results. He has been incorporating his knowledge of various contemplative practices to create a system that is comprehensive and tailored to meet the needs of any individual student.
That is why Mitch works with the Tailored Mindfulness Experience©. Too often meditation and mindfulness coaches are stuck in a bubble of the one technique they have learned. This does not serve the individual as well as creating a program that resonates with their personal strengths and goals.
Tailored Mindfulness Experience© is a unique approach to corporate mindfulness because of it’s ability to adapt, creating a bespoke experience. Our instructors then work with the personal goals and strengths of each student to create the mindfulness programs that works best for THEM. A ‘cookie cutter’ approach is not the effective way to insure that all students attain the benefits of mindfulness within the parameters of their life, work, and abilities.
Through the years he has worked in with large public companies as well as start-ups. He understands the pressures and stresses that people face each day and has the tools to change perspectives and paradigms.
His work has been successfully adopted by corporations as well as individuals in classes, seminars, or private sessions.
Julianna received her BA in psychology from Duke University. As founder, president, and head trainer of Unified Mindfulness, she is dedicated to disseminating Shinzen Young’s comprehensive mindfulness meditation system through the creation and presentation of educational programs and teacher-training certification programs.
Dr. Hunter serves as associate professor of practice and is the founding director of the Executive Mind Leadership Institute at the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management, Claremont Graduate University. He also serves as visiting professor at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where he developed and co-teaches the Leading Mindfully executive education program..
Dr. Eisendrath serves as chief psychologist and president of the Institute for Dialogue Therapy, P.C., where, as a Jungian analyst, she offers psychotherapy with individuals and couples, psychoanalysis, supervision, and training.
Dr. Vago serves as the research director of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and the director of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Integrative Medicine (CNIM) Laboratory at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He is an associate professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Department of Psychiatry.
Stella is a psychologist, professor, and Zen practitioner. She became a formal student in 2008 in the Soto Zen tradition. She teaches courses in mindfulness based psychotherapies and the psychology of compassion at the Union Institute & University. She also co-facilitates a family program and young adult program at Shao Shan Temple, in Woodbury Vermont.
Dr. Creswell serves as a tenured associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the director of the Health & Human Performance Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. McCormick currently serves as director of education at Unified Mindfulness. In 1975, he received a B.A. in psychology from the University of California Santa Cruz, where he was part of Dr. Elliot Aronson’s research team that examined cooperative approaches to reducing interracial conflict and academic performance problems in newly integrated school, and made Honors in Psychology, College Honors, and Thesis Honors.
UnifiedMindfulness.com is the official teacher training platform for Shinzen and the Unified Mindfulness System.
Created over 50 years of research and testing by Shinzen Young, Unified Mindfulness is a system of meditation that’s easily researchable by science, with clear terminology and rigorous precision around concepts and procedures.
The Unified Mindfulness system is a comprehensive, robust and refined support structure that any individual at any stage of meditation practice can rely on to go deeper in their insight and their ability to share it with others. It is also a secular form of meditation, which means it’s not religious in any way so anyone, of any faith, can do it.