Margaret Cullen

Margaret Cullen is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Teacher and was one of the first ten instructors to be Certified by the Center for Mindfulness.  For 30 years she has been pioneering mindfulness-based programs in health care, education, business and academic settings. In 1995 she helped launch the first MBSR program at Kaiser in Oakland, and later collaborated on a revised manual for the entire northern California region. She introduced MBSR to the Cancer Support Community (CSC) in both Santa Monica and Walnut Creek, California where it still thrives, 30 years later.  In 2009 she was invited by Thupten Jinpa to help develop the Compassion Cultivation Training (CCT) at Stanford University. From 2009 through 2021 Margaret taught CCT and trained teachers from around the world.