Bob Stahl, Ph.D. founded 8 mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) programs in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bob is a professor of the practice in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences in the School of Public Health at Brown University and is a senior teacher at the Brown Mindfulness Center. He formally served as a senior teacher at the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Bob teaches Mindfulness retreats worldwide and is the former guiding teacher at Insight Santa Cruz and visiting teacher at Insight Meditation Society, Insight Retreat Center, and Spirit Rock. He is coauthor of 5 books: A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook (1st & 2nd editions), Living With Your Heart Wide Open, Calming the Rush of Panic, A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook for Anxiety, and MBSR Everyday.
