Tyler was drawn to mindfulness as a way to cultivate happiness and well being. From life and his travels he developed a curiosity as to what cultivates happiness independent of conditions. After exploring many happiness ways, he found mindfulness was the most profound practice to influence overall happiness. He also learned for him, mindfulness is the best way to work with difficulty and suffering. Mindfulness helped him change the relationship he had to difficulty and happiness. Tyler found mindfulness supported in an exponential way to have greater awareness, acceptance and self-kindness with what arises. He recently discovered Unified Mindfulness, which has greatly influenced his own practice and sharing the practice with others.
In Tyler’s work as an educator and counsellor, he started out teaching mindfulness and social emotional learning programs to teachers that they would teach to their students. Soon he learned it is crucial for teachers to have their own mindfulness practice before teaching it to school age-students. He teaches K-12 teachers their own mindfulness practice and supports how to teach mindfulness to students. He supports educators with their own mindfulness practice which supports the overall classroom climate and culture.
In addition to being a UM Level 2 Coach, he is a SMART (Stress Management and Resiliency Techniques) Facilitator, which is a mindfulness based program designed for K-12 educators from the University of British Columbia.
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.