Dr. Zhang is a Unified Mindfulness certified Teacher/Trainer and Lead Coach. She started learning meditation in 2005 and find it brings renewed perspective along with years of practice. Integrating her international life experience and Western/Chinese medicine knowledge with Taoism, Confucianism, and Zen Buddhist wisdoms, Dr. Zhang is dedicated to help people live a mindfully well-balanced healthy and happy life.
Retired from corporate life, Dr. Zhang now conducts online and offline Mindfulness seminars and coaches business executives. She introduces the structured Unified Mindfulness way of practicing to people with a busy life and supports them in making mindfulness practice an lifestyle choice. She uses Chinese Medicine’s holistic understanding of body and mind to turn mindfulness practice into an effective health enhancing exercise, especially by facilitating the movement of Qi (pronounced as CHEE, a word refers to the vital life force or energy that runs through all living beings in Traditional Chinese Medicine and subtle vibratory flow in UM perspective).
Dr. Zhang is trained in both Western Medicine and Chinese Medicine. Having lived in the US for 8 years, she speaks English fluently and is happy to do on-line coach work for international client. She can be reach by email via [email protected].
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.