I am UMass Certified MBSR Teacher specializing in healthcare, businesses, and burnout prevention programming. I’ve been teaching about contemplative practice since 1998, am a science communicator about mindfulness through podcasting and social media, and peer reviewer for the journal Mindfulness. While in corporate healthcare for about 15 years, I created MBI’s on mindfulness and burnout, several drop-in meditation groups, countless presentations, and hosted live sessions for the global mindfulness community. I’m the first U.S. based supervisor for The Mindfulness Network, and have been supervising internationally since 2019.
Qualifications
- Certified MBSR Teacher – UMass Medical School Center for Mindfulness
- Mindfulness Supervisor – Institute for Mindfulness-Based Approaches
- Peer Reviewer – Mindfulness (ORCiD 0009-0005-8593-552X)
- Certified Professional Mentor – International Mentoring Center
Organizations
- Supervisor Team, The Mindfulness Network
- Board of Trustees, The Mindfulness Network
- Host, International Supervisors’ SiTT Group
- Senior Teacher, Institute for Mindfulness-Based Approaches
Teaching-Training Specialisms
- MBSR for the general public
- MBSR for healthcare workers
- Workplace Mindfulness
- Burnout Prevention & Remediation: General and Healthcare versions
- Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
Supervision Experience
I’ve been a supervisor since 2019 with the Institute for Mindfulness-Based Approaches, with the following continuing education and training in supervision from The Mindfulness Network:
- Supervisor Training Level 2
- Supervisor Training Level 1
Supervision Specialisms
- Workplace Mindfulness
- MBSR
- Mindfulness in Therapeutic Context
- General public
- 1:1 Work
Supervision Rates
1 hour individual session – £50-£60
½ hour individual session – £25-£35
*Please note that the exact cost may be variable based on US dollar conversion rates.
Please see our Supervision FAQs for more details on the cost of supervision.
Personal Practice
I started in Soto Zen to help with a difficulty focusing, eventually exploring Theravada learning and practice and taking lay ordination in each. My encounter with MBSR led me on the path of science-based, secular training, helping to broaden my personal practice to include a wider variety of formal meditations, including Focused-Attention, Open Monitoring, Mindful Movement, and other practices. Much of my learning comes from continuing education in mindfulness, and from regular engagement with leaders in the field via podcasting and social media.
Research Activities and Interests
My focus is the trend of mindfulness in contemporary culture, keeping up-to-date and sharing about the latest scientific research, and how mindfulness can be applied to changing the underlying causes and conditions resulting in stress, depression, and anxiety.
Peer Reviewer – Mindfulness (ORCiD 0009-0005-8593-552X)
Van Dam, N. T., van Vugt, M. K., Vago, D. R., Schmalzl, L., Saron, C. D., Olendzki, A., Meissner, T., Lazar, S. W., Kerr, C. E., Gorchov, J., Fox, K. C. R., Field, B. A., Britton, W. B., Brefczynski-Lewis, J. A., & Meyer, D. E. (2017). Mind the Hype: A Critical Evaluation and Prescriptive Agenda for Research on Mindfulness and Meditation. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 13(1), 36-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617709589 (Original work published 2018)
Meissner, T. (2017). Video Conferencing for Mindfulness Programs: Benefits, Experiences, and Recommendations. The International Journal of Whole Person Care, 4(2). https://doi.org/10.26443/ijwpc.v4i2.126
Additional Publications
- Mindfulness Voyage – 2024 to present
- Present Moment: Mindfulness Practice and Science – July 2013 to April 2023
- The Secular Buddhist – May 2009 to May 2022
- Author: How to Get Good Pause. November 30, 2017, Mindful Online
- Book – Exploring Spiritual Naturalism, Year 3: An Anthology of Articles from the Spiritual Naturalist Society – Foreword
- Book – Life’s Meandering Path: A Secular Approach to Gautama Buddha’s Guide to Living — Introduction
- Book – Exploring Spiritual Naturalism, Year 1: An Anthology of Articles from the Spiritual Naturalist Society – chapter “Naturalistic Buddhism”
Further Information
I post almost daily on LinkedIn, weekly on YouTube, and sporadically on TikTok, BlueSky, and Facebook.
My email is ted@mindfulness.voyage
My website is https://mindfulness.voyage/
