Secular Dharma Foundation Podcast

Brent Purple Oliver is a mindfulness and meditation coach who specializes in customizing methods based on each client’s goals, needs, and personalities. He’s known for his brash, straightforward approach, sense of humor, and relentless practicality.  Purple has credentials from Unified Mindfulness, the Engaged Mindfulness Institute, and David Treleaven’s trauma-sensitive mindfulness program. He’s...

Mirabai Bush is a co-founder of the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society and served as Executive Director until 2008. Under her direction, The Center developed its programs in education, law, business, environment, the military, and activism and its network of thousands of people integrating contemplative practice and perspective into their lives and work. Mirabai holds a unique background of...

Joseph Goldstein is one of the first American vipassana teachers, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society (IMS) with Jack Kornfield and Sharon Salzberg. He is a contemporary author of numerous popular books on Buddhism, a resident guiding teacher at IMS, and a leader of retreats worldwide on insight (vipassana) and lovingkindness (metta) meditation. While the majority of Goldstein's publicati...

Teen mental health education advocate, Adam Avin, created the Wuf Shanti Children’s Wellness Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit organization, to teach mindfulness and social emotional learning, so children 3-17 years-old can live in health and wellness & peace and positivity. Adam also founded the Kids’ Association for Mindfulness in Education, and the international online Mindful Kids Peace Summit. A...

https://seculardharmafoundation.com/ The mission of the Secular Dharma Foundation (501c) is to foster the advancement of emotional and psychological well-being through the education and integration of mindfulness, psychology, nature-based programming, and various therapeutic modalities. We provide educational tools and resources, mindfulness and emotional skills training through online programs, p...

Brennon Moore is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC-II), and a Nationally Certified Trauma Therapist (CTT). Brennon has been specializing in young men's trauma for nearly a decade in both a residential and outpatient setting. His interest in trauma healing began in academia while studying experiential and gestalt approaches to treating trauma at The...

Amy Thompson is a gifted and intuitive mentor and coach with over 20 years of experience as a counselor, retreat facilitator, and teacher. She has a passion for guiding people through transformational change with both groups and individuals from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds. She holds a BA in Literature from Dominican University. An artist, Amy is also a sacred ceremony designer and public sp...

Ann Gleig is an Associate Professor of Religion and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Florida. Her research specialization is Buddhism in America, and she is the author of  American Dharma: Buddhism Beyond Modernity  (Yale University Press, 2019). She is currently working on a collaborative book project with Amy Langenberg on sexual abuse in American Buddhist communities, which is unde...

Ted Meissner is the Executive Director of the Secular Buddhist Association. He has been a meditator for over 25 years with backgrounds in Zen and Theravada, and is a UMass Center for Mindfulness Certified MBSR Teacher. https://secularbuddhism.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ted-meissner/

JOHN PEACOCK is both an academic and a Buddhist practitioner of nearly fifty years. Trained initially in the Tibetan Gelugpa tradition in India, he subsequently spent time in Sri Lanka studying Theravada. After doing a doctorate in philosophy, he taught Buddhist and Western philosophy and then Buddhist Studies at the University of Bristol. He went on to be Associate Director of the Oxford Mindfuln...

Richard Shankman has been a meditator since 1970, and teaches at Dharma centers and groups internationally. He is guiding teacher of the Metta Dharma Foundation, and cofounder of the Sati Center for Buddhist Studies and of Mindful Schools. He practices and teaches meditation that integrates compassion, mindfulness, concentration and insight as one path of practice. Richard is the author of The Art...

We are Insight Meditation teachers who share from a Theravada lens while integrating insights and language from Zen, Buddhist tantra, anti-oppression pedagogies, and body-centered psychotherapy. We believe friendship is the heartwood of the path, that meditation is an act of radical friendship, and that we can extend the warm heart of relatedness to all.  We take the Buddha’s words on awakening se...

About Mary Stancavage: ABOUT MARY STANCAVAGE I started cultivating a spiritual practice over 30 years ago and picked up my first Buddhist book, Start Where You Are by Pema Chödrön soon after that. It resonated with me so completely – this was the life I was attempting to live. I practiced meditation sporadically over the next several years and had a regular yoga practice. In 2005 I began studying...

STEPHEN BATCHELOR is a contemporary Buddhist teacher and writer, best known for his secular or agnostic approach to Buddhism. Stephen considers Buddhism to be a constantly evolving culture of awakening rather than a religious system based on immutable dogmas and beliefs. In particular, he regards the doctrines of karma and rebirth to be features of ancient Indian civilisation and not intrinsic to...