Joseph Loizzo, MD, PhD, is a contemplative psychotherapist, Buddhist scholar, and author with over four decades’ experience integrating Indo-Tibetan mind science and healing arts into modern neuropsychology, psychotherapy, and clinical research. He is founder and academic director of the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science, developer of its Contemplative Psychotherapy Program, an assistant professor of psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College, and a clinician in private practice in Manhattan.

Fiona Brandon, MPS, MA, MFT, is a psychotherapist, contemplative educator, group facilitator, and the director of the Nalanda Institute’s Compassion-Based Resilience Training and Embodied Contemplative Psychotherapy programs. For more than fifteen years she has integrated Buddhist psychology, depth psychology, and meditation into her clinical work with adults and couples in her private practice in San Francisco.

Emily J. Wolf, PhD, MSEd, is the founder and director of Contemplative Psychology PC, where she provides psychotherapy, clinical supervision, and training for mental health providers. She has conducted groundbreaking research on the integration of contemplative methods of Indian yoga and meditation into Western psychodynamic therapy, recovery, and health education and is a former director and co-developer of the Nalanda Institute’s Contemplative Psychotherapy program. She is also an adjunct clinical instructor of psychology at Weill Cornell Medical College.

Miles Neale, PsyD, is a Buddhist psychotherapist in private practice, founder of the Contemplative Studies Program, and clinical instructor of psychology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He has more than twenty years of experience integrating Tibetan Buddhism and psychology, is the author of Return with Elixir (2023) and Gradual Awakening (2018) and leads Buddhist pilgrimages throughout Asia.

Moustafa Abdelrahman, MBA, RP, is a psychotherapist and a meditation teacher. He has extensive experience working with LGBTQ+ individuals and allies. He teaches The Foundation of Applied Mindfulness Meditation certificate program at the University of Toronto and The Compassion-Based Resilience Training Teacher Training program at the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science.

Tara Brach, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, influential insight meditation teacher, author, and founder of the Insight Meditation Community of Washington, DC.

Christine Braehler PsyD, PhD, is a clinical psychologist who specializes in self-compassion, a mindful self-compassion teacher trainer, and international coordinator of the Center for Mindful Self-Compassion.

Nida Chenagstang, PhD, is the co-founder of Pure Land Farms, and founder and medical director of the Sowa Rigpa Institute: School of Traditional Tibetan Medicine.

Seiso Paul Cooper, PhD, LP, is an ordained priest and transmitted teacher in the Soto Zen lineage of Dainin Katagiri; member of the American Zen Teacher’s Association; Founder: Two Rivers Zen Community. He maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Montpelier, Vermont.

Diana Fosha, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author, the developer of AEDP—a healing-based, transformation-oriented model of psychotherapy—and director of the AEDP Institute. She is on the faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology of both New York University and St Luke’s/Roosevelt Medical Centers in New York City.

Paul Fulton, PhD, is a clinical psychologist, author, meditation consultant, and co-founder of the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.

Christopher Germer, PhD, is an author and clinical psychologist in private practice specializing in mindfulness-based and compassion-oriented psychotherapy. With Kristin Neff, PhD, he developed the eight-week Mindful Self-Compassion Program.

Rick Hanson, PhD, senior fellow at the University of California Berkley Greater Good Science Center, is a neuropsychologist and bestselling author who has devoted four decades to integrating meditation, brain research, and clinical psychology.

Pilar Jennings, PhD, is a psychoanalyst, author, and faculty in the Psychiatry and Religion Program at Union Theological Seminary of Columbia University and the Columbia Center for the Study of Science and Religion. She has dedicated thirty years to studying and integrating Tibetan Buddhism with psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Kamilah Majied, PhD, is a mental health clinician, educator, researcher, and internationally engaged consultant on building inclusivity and equity using meditative practices. She is a professor at California State University, Monterey Bay, and the founder and CEO of Majied Contemplative Consulting, which uses meditative practices in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion leadership development.

Lama Rod Owens is a Buddhist minister, author, activist, yoga instructor, and authorized Lama in the Kagyu School of Tibetan Buddhism.

Sheryl Petty, EdD, (Ngakma Shé-tsal Tsültrim Wangmo) is an organizational development and systems change consultant. She is ordained as a ngakma and teaches in the Nyingma lineage of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism and has been a Lucumi/Yoruba priest since 1997. Her work for nearly thirty years supports the healing and healthy functioning of organizations globally to embody Deep Equity.

Lobsang Rapgay is a research psychologist at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and director of the Clinical Training Program for Mental Health Professionals at the Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, UCLA. He has a doctorate in clinical psychology and is the author of four books, including Tibetan Medicine: A Holistic Approach to Better Health.

Sharon Salzberg is a first-generation American Buddhist teacher and acclaimed author, co-founder of the Insight Meditation Society, and world-renowned expert on mindfulness with over forty years of teaching experience.

Daniel J. Siegel, MD, professor of psychiatry at UCLA and director of the Mindsight Institute, is a pediatric psychiatrist, education consultant, and world-renowned pioneer in the field of interpersonal neurobiology. He is author of many books and editor of the Norton Series in Interpersonal Neurobiology.

Robert Thurman, PhD, America’s preeminent Buddhist scholar-translator, is president of Tibet House, US, and holds the first endowed chair in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism in the West, the Je Tsongkapa Chair at Columbia University.

Jan Willis, PhD, is professor of Religion Emerita at Wesleyan University and has a PhD in Indic and Buddhist Studies from Columbia University. She is the author of several books on Buddhism, has studied with Tibetan Buddhists for five decades, and has taught courses in Buddhism for over forty-five years.