Happy Soul, believer in gift called life, avid traveler and explorer, respects relationships and believes in goodness all around. Student of her two sons who teach her many lessons of life, Gunjan lives in Hyderabad, beautiful “city of pearls” in India.
She holds a Masters Diploma in Business Administration and is a Certified Associate from the Indian Institute of Bankers. With more than a decade of experience in dealing with clients in Banking and Commercial sector, her innate interest in people and their behavior inspired her to work in the area of Training and Development. She helps individuals and organizations reach their true potential through her customized training programs.
A simple conversation with her younger son few years back gave her the idea to write her first blog and discover her passion for writing, which she finds cathartic way of expression.
She contributes regularly though blogs, micro-fiction stories and poetry on several online platforms across a variety of topics such as Parenting, Travel, Mindfulness, relationships and nurturing positivity.
Gunjan also maintains her blogs on her personal website at http://beyondstories.in/. She had published her first Book on Poetry and Micro Fiction in 2020 and is currently penning her second book. Gunjan also volunteers to teach underprivileged children through the “Teach for Change” Program as she firmly believes that lessons learnt early in life (childhood), continue to shape the future years.
Desire to deepen her own practice and understanding of mindfulness made her pursue the Unified Mindfulness Foundations Program. Seeing the benefits, it had in her personal life and her willingness and passion to share this knowledge with others, made her move ahead on the path of becoming a Unified Mindfulness Coach.
Gunjan likes to add life to her days by starting it with Yoga, meditation, and morning walks. She enjoys spending time with her family, travelling to new places, reading, and writing.
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.