Tazuko Shibusawa received her master’s and doctorate degrees in Social Work at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). She was on the faculty at Columbia University, and New York University where she served as the associate dean and director of the master’s program in social work. She received her training as a MBSR teacher and teacher trainer from the Centers of Mindfulness at the University of Massachusetts and Brown University. She also completed the mindfulness- and compassion-based psychotherapy programs at the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science in New York City. Tazuko currently lives in Tokyo and teaches MBSR, MBSR Teacher Training Program, and Mindful-Self Compassion through the Tokyo Mindfulness Center. She is co-director of the Japan Mindfulness Collaborative, which is a member of the Global Mindfulness Collaborative (GMC), an international network of MBSR teacher trainers. She currently serves on the Board of GMC and is a guest teacher for Space2Meditate, which is based in the United States.

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