Hello my friend and welcome back to the second episode of Practicing Human.

Yesterday in episode one I gave you an overview of what this podcast would be about

what my intention is and how I hope you can integrate it into your life.

Today I want to share my story, my background, and what it is I do on a day-to-day basis.

And this is not to bore you with details about me, but I do think if we're going to be

spending this time together, it's important for you to know more about me, what my qualifications

are, what my trainings are, what my education has been,

so that you can see what the particular lens is that I might bring to the exploration of what it means to live well,

and also potential limitations and blind spots in my perspective.

Now in the first episode, I mentioned that these daily episodes would be between three to

ten minutes long.

This episode may be a little longer than most since this will be the only time I'm going over my background and giving you my story.

So let's start with what I do. For the last seven or so years, I've been running the Long Island Center for Mindfulness.

Teaching Mindfulness Workshops, retreats, longer courses in the Long Island area,

which is where I live at the moment when I'm not traveling

which is about 50% of the time because a lot of my other work involves speaking

and teaching around the country and around the world now to organizations, health care systems, education, schools,

on the topics of mindfulness, meditation, and positive psychology,

all kind of lumped into one general category of well-being.

And I wear a few other hats and have over the last number of years.

For a few years I taught mindfulness-based leadership at Columbia University to principals and school leaders there as part of one of their graduate programs and currently serve as an instructor of positive psychology at the University of Pennsylvania for a master's program called of Now key thing here if you're not familiar with positive psychology it's not positive

thinking it's not happyology it's not the opposite of negative psychology we've heard

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