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Donald Rothberg, Ph.D

Donald Rothberg, Ph.D

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About Donald Rothberg

Donald Rothberg, Ph.D., serves on the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Center in California and has been practicing Insight Meditation since 1976. His training also includes Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra practice, the Hakomi approach to body-based psychotherapy, and Somatic Experiencing for working with trauma. After teaching on the faculties of the University of Kentucky, Kenyon College, and Saybrook University, he now teaches and writes on mindfulness and lovingkindness meditation, with a focus on how these practices can support the transformation of the judgmental mind, as well as speech, communication, conflict, social service, and social action. He is the author of The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World and co-editor of Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers. He is currently writing a book on transforming the judgmental mind.

Qualifications & Training

  • Member of the Teachers Council at Spirit Rock Center in California
  • Practiced Insight Meditation since 1976
  • Training in Tibetan Dzogchen and Mahamudra practice
  • Training in the Hakomi approach to body-based psychotherapy
  • Training in the Somatic Experiencing approach to working with trauma
  • Former faculty member of the University of Kentucky
  • Former faculty member of Kenyon College
  • Former faculty member of Saybrook University

Publications

  • The Engaged Spiritual Life: A Buddhist Approach to Transforming Ourselves and the World (Author)
  • Ken Wilber in Dialogue: Conversations with Leading Transpersonal Thinkers (Co-editor)
  • Currently working on a book on transforming the judgmental mind
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