CONTRIBUTORS TO THE IMI NETWORK

Past and current contributors are colleagues who are:

• Senior in the field – i.e. have many years’ experience as a teacher trainer within an established MBSR/MBCT or other closely related empirically underpinned 8-week MB teacher program training organization;
• Able to represent both their own training organization and the region within which they work (i.e. they are well respected, well networked and well trusted within their wider community);
• Representatives of different geographical areas in the world and of different sorts of training organizations e.g., individuals who work within universities and those in independent training institutes or teachers’ networks.

Members of the current IMI Working party

• Eowyn Ahlstrom, Mindfulness Center at Brown University, US
• María Noel Anchorena, Sociedad Mindfulness y Salud, Argentina
• Rebecca Eldridge, East Coast Mindfulness, US
• Estrella Fernández, MBCT-Spain
• Timothea Goddard, Mindfulness Training Institute, Australia
• Andrea Grabovac, Mindfulness-integrated CBT Institute , Canada
• Lot Heijke, EAMBA, and Present Mind, the Netherlands
• Günter Hudasch, Achtsamkeitszentrum Berlin, Germany
• Linda Kantor, Institute for Mindfulness South Africa (IMISA)
• Tatini Petra Schmidt, MBSR Verband, Germany
• Camilla Sköld, Center for Mindfulness & Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
• Taravajra, Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor, UK
• Hui Qi Tong, Mindfulness Program, Stanford Center for Integrative Medicine, US
•  Valerie York-Zimmerman, Miami Mindfulness, US

Facilitators of the initial exploratory meetings held during 2015

• Jud Brewer, Center for Mindfulness-UMass Medical School
• Tim Burnett, Mindfulness Northwest, US
• Rebecca Crane, Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor, UK
• Willem Kuyken, Oxford Mindfulness Centre, UK
• Karin Ekdahl, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
• Christina Feldman, independent teacher/trainer, UK
• Lot Heijke, EAMBA, and independent teacher/trainer, the Netherlands
• Steven Hickman, University of California, San Diego
• Maura Kenny, Mindfulness Training Institute Australasia
• Trish Luck, independent teacher/trainer, South Africa/UK
• Florence Meleo-Meyer, Center for Mindfulness-UMass Medical School
• Catherine Phillips, University of Alberta, The Mindfulness Institute, Canada
• Saki Santorelli, Center for Mindfulness-UMass Medical School
• Susan Woods, independent teacher/trainer, US

Midwives (the advisory group)

• Tim Burnett, Mindfulness Northwest, US
• Rebecca Crane, Centre for Mindfulness Research and Practice, Bangor, UK
• Dawn MacDonald, Compassion Project, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Florence Meleo-Meyer, Mindfulness Center, Brown University, US
• Camilla Sköld, Center for Mindfulness Sweden and Karolinska Institutet
• Linda Lehrhaupt, Institute for Mindfulness-Based Approaches, Germany