Margaret Cullen

Margaret Cullen is an author, licensed psychotherapist and was one of the first ten people to become a Certified Mindfulness-Based Stress teacher. Her new book, Quiet Strength: Find Peace, Feel Alive and Love Boundlessly through the Power of Equanimity will be published by Harper Collins in 2026. For over 25 years, she has pioneered secular contemplative programs worldwide for a wide variety of populations. She has developed contemplative interventions for research studies at Stanford, UCSF, Portland State, Penn State, University of Michigan, and University of Miami. In 2013, she co-developed a mindfulness and compassion program with Amishi Jha (MBAT - Spouse) for military spouses. In 2015, she co-authored a book on Mindfulness-Based Emotional Balance (MBEB), an evidence-based program that she piloted across the US and Canada. In 2010, she was invited by Thupten Jinpa to contribute to the development of Compassion Cultivation Training, at the Center for Compassion, Altruism, Research and Education at the Stanford School of Medicine. She is the founder of Compassion Corps, a Mind and Life Fellow, Founding Faculty at the Compassion Institute, and on the advisory board of the Global Compassion Coalition A meditator for over 40 years, she has sat dozens of intensive retreats ranging from ten days to three months and has written extensively on mindfulness. Nothing brings her greater joy than contributing to a more compassionate world.

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