Archives: Authors
Juliet Hwang
Juliet identifies as a Korean American Queer Cis Woman. She received the name, Transforming Aspirations of the Heart during the 5 Mindfulness Trainings ceremony at the first People of Color Retreat at Deer Park Monastery in 2004. At that time, she was a pediatric resident struggling with her own suffering as well as the suffering she witnessed in her patients. Thay’s teaching resonated with her deeply as she learned how to hold her suffering and begin the path of transformation and healing. She received the 14 Mindfulness Trainings in 2011. Since then, she has been teaching mindfulness and building sanghas. Currently, she helps facilitate the Long Beach Family Sangha, as well as the Lotus in a Sea of Fire Sangha for BIPOC OI Aspirants. She is also a pediatrician with a special interest in developmental trauma. She uses a trauma sensitive approach in her pediatric practice as well as her meditation practice. She also teaches Resilience Strategies for physicians, administrators, and healthcare employees. Her newest job title is Instructor at the Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, teaching mindfulness and resilience to a new generation of physicians. One of her greatest joys is hiking to the stupa at Deer Park with her husband and two children.
Jacqueline Kim
Jacqueline Kim (True Beautiful Garden) is a multi-disciplinary sculptor and composer focusing on social reflection and change. She’s a co-founder of LA’s Compassionate Heart Sangha celebrating its 20th year of practice in the fall. Currently, she narrated and composed Seven Year Summer, Anna Byrne’s memoir about healing from a rare, aggressive cancer and is finishing a choral piece with an inmate at Shakopee correctional facility for their Voices of Hope choir. <a href="http://www.jacquelinekim.com/">www.jacquelinekim.com</a>
Nobantu Mpotulo
Nobantu Mpotulo is a mindfulness teacher and life coach who leads workshops for other coaches, teaching them how to integrate ubuntu into coaching.
David W. Robinson-Morris
David W. Robinson-Morris, PhD, is the executive director of The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and the author of <em>Ubuntu and Buddhism in Higher Education: An Ontological (Re)Thinking</em> (Routledge).
Yao Obiora Dibia
Yao Obiora Dibia is a social worker who lives with Gutta, the cat, in a vibrant Dominican neighborhood in Manhattan. He’s on the advisory council for Empty Cloud Monastery in New Jersey.
Chris Germer
Chris Germer, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and the author of The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion.
Jill Satterfield
Jill Satterfield is a meditation teacher whose Applied Embodied Mindfulness Trainings are part of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center.
Daniel Cozort
Daniel Cozort recently retired as a professor of religion at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania. He is the author or editor of books on Buddhist philosophy, tantra, and ethics, and was editor of The Journal of Buddhist Ethics.
Kathie Fischer
Sokaku Kathie Fischer was ordained as a Zen priest in 1980 and received dharma transmission in 2011. She’s a retired middle school science teacher.
Reverend Zenshin Florence Caplow
Reverend Zenshin Florence Caplow has served as a minister of UU congregations in Washington, Colorado, and Illinois. She’s also a Soto Zen priest in the Suzuki Roshi tradition.