Michele McCormick, Ph.D. is a practicing psychologist and certified mindfulness teacher. With UCLA's Dan Siegel, M.D., and Chris Germer, Ph.D. at Harvard she has studied interpersonal neuropsychology and the complex nature of consciousness . For over a decade, she has enjoyed a dedicated mindfulness practice through study, travel and sitting with Trudy Goodman, Jack Kornfield, and other dedicated teachers. Certified through Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center in 2019 over the course of a two-year training with Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, Michele is now an "official" certified mindfulness instructor.
Sustained silence becomes her best teacher each August during month-long retreats, on hermitages in the wilderness of northern New Mexico, and again in Colorado at Thich Nhat Hahn's mindfulness retreats. In the Spring of 2013, Doc M was encouraged by Jack Kornfield to start a sitting group. Talking together on a high desert mesa while on retreat in Joshua Tree, California, Jack said, "Just do it. Start now. See where it goes".
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